Faculty

Prof. Sirui Zhou receives 2025 Banting Discovery Award for groundbreaking EDS research

admin — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:02:25 +0000

Congratulations to Prof. Sirui Zhou, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, who has been awarded the 2025 Banting Discovery Foundation’s prestigious Discovery Award. Prof. Zhou is the inaugural recipient of the $30,000 Banting-Canerector Foundation Discovery Award, which was created to support pioneering research into Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders (HSD)—conditions that affect the body's connective tissues.

Congratulations to Yumi Dille for receiving the Outstanding Oral Presentation Award at BE-STEMM 2025

admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:11:34 +0000

We are thrilled to announce that Yumi Dille, PhD student in Human Genetics program supervised by Dr. Myriam Srour, has received the Outstanding Oral Presentation Award at the BE-STEMM 2025 Conference, organized by the Canadian Black Scientists Network (CBSN) and hosted at the University of Calgary.

Advanced Cell Imaging Seminar presented by Avantor and Molecular Devices

amanda.perozzo@mcgill.ca — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:05:33 +0000

Hannah Derue, PhD student in Professor Ribeiro da Silva’s lab, featured on the first page of the ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� Reporter

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:43:58 +0000

Hannah Derue is a PhD candidate in neuroscience in Dr. Ribeiro-da-Silva’s lab at the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics. She recently founded a research and development startup called PAin+ — an interdisciplinary venture that combines artificial intelligence and visual art to help individuals communicate about and manage chronic pain in novel ways.

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New publication from the Bui Lab in Current Biology on cilia tip structure

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:16:09 +0000

Motile cilia are specialized organelles essential for cell movement and fluid flow, driven by the beating of their internal cytoskeleton called the axoneme. At the core of the axoneme lies the central pair (CP) of microtubules, which features a distinct distal tip structure critical for motility. However, the proteins stabilizing this region have remained largely unknown.

BBME seminar: “Machine Learning models for automated voice disorder assessment using high-speed video endoscopy and acoustic data”, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Döllinger, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:10:40 +0000

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BBME seminar: “Single Molecule and Single Particle Analysis for Clinical Diagnosis”, Prof. David R. Walt, Harvard University

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:44:57 +0000

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Seminar Series_ Pharmacology & Therapeutics_ Jamie Engert, PhD_ Title:“From Proteomics to Disease Pathogenesis: A Multi-Omics Investigation of Aortic Stenosis”

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:26:36 +0000

Seminar Announcement

Jamie Engert, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, Division of Cardiology,
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Congratulations to John Orlowski, inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences at their annual meeting in May 2025

admin — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:31:50 +0000

more info can be found here: https://csmb-scbm.ca/membership/csmb-fellows/

Anim, Mezzanotte, Chu and Stochaj developed and tested an advanced approach to monitor de novo protein synthesis.

admin — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:38:00 +0000

1. Anim EP, Mezzanotte J, Chu S, Stochaj U. Bioorthogonal Non-Canonical Amino Acid Tagging (BONCAT) to Detect Newly Synthesized Proteins in Cells and their Secretome. protocols io 10.17504, (2025). https://www.protocols.io/view/bioorthogonal-non-canonical-amino-acid-tagging-bon-gzcqbx2vx.html

Congratulations to Simran Dhir-PhD2 and Thomas Deluc - PostDoc in the lab of Dr. Alfredo Ribeiro Da Silva

admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:05:52 +0000

Congratulations to Simran Dhir/PhD2, who received The Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation’s Edwards PhD. Studentships in Pain Research 2025. This Studentship carries with it a stipend of $25,000 per annum for three years.

Congratulations to Thomas Deluc/PostDoc, who received the Ronald Melzack Fellowship in Pain Research ($70,000 per year for three years).

Both these awards supports full-time research in chronic pain that will be conducted at the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain.

Congratulations to Terry Hébert, who is a winner of 2025 David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:01:50 +0000

Congratulations to Terry Hébert, who is a winner of 2025 David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching. The David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching acknowledges outstanding contributions to promoting graduate student excellence through supervision and teaching by a faculty member who has been supervising for 10 years or more.

Winner: Terry Hébert, Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Congratulations to Diego Loggia -PhD3 in Dr. Terry Hebert's lab, who has won a D2R Doctoral Scholar Award

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:22:31 +0000

Super proud of Diego Loggia who just won a D2R Doctoral Scholar Award! He will use our iPSC-derived disease in a dish model to explore the utility of RNA- and DNA-based drugs to modulate patient-specific disease outcomes in dilated cardiomyopathy.

Congratulations to Danielle Simons-PhD2 in Dr. Jean-Francois Trempe's lab, who has been awarded the 2025 Max Eivaskhani Memorial Fellowship from CRBS

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:22:01 +0000

Danielle Simons (PhD2) has been awarded the 2025 Max Eivaskhani Memorial Fellowship from the Centre de Recherche en Biologie Structurale (CRBS). This fellowship was established in 2021 in remembrance of former CRBS student Max Eivaskhani and is awarded to the top ranked application among the submissions for the CRBS Scholarship competition.

Congratulations to Sabrina Romanelli/PhD3 and Tara Shomali/PhD4 in Dr. Jean-Francois Trempe's lab, who have been awarded the FRQS doctoral scholarship

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:23:03 +0000

Sabrina Romanelli (PhD3) and Tara Shomali (PhD 4) were awarded the FRQS doctoral scholarship ("Bourses de doctorat en recherche - volet régulier”). Both are supplemented by a contribution from Parkinson Quebec in partnership with the FRQ.