Nancy completed her doctoral training in molecular and cellular biology at the University of Sherbrooke in 2022 under Professor Sébastien Rodrigue. She was awarded the Governor General's Academic Medal and co-received Québec Science’s 2022 Discovery of the Year. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in Louis-Patrick Haraoui’s lab at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Sherbrooke, where she continues her research on antimicrobial resistance.