"[3] Growing up in Mississauga, Ontario,[4] she attended the Glenforest Secondary School (International Baccalaureate Diploma Program).
[7] During her first year as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, Tie worked at Mount Sinai Hospital, in the genetic research laboratory of Frederick Roth.
[3] After hearing about a competition for a biotech startup, she teamed up with Leo Wan, a graduate student in Roth's lab, to create a business plan for a genomics start-up.
In a JLabs profile,[10] Tie explained that the company's focus was to investigate variants of unknown significance (VUS) that caused genetic tests to fail or misdiagnose patients.
Ranomics worked for external genetic testing firms in a business-to-business arrangement to analyze oncogene mutations.