Graduate Students

“Is targeting 14-3-3 zeta a potential two-pronged approach to treat type 1 diabetes?” with Dr Gareth Lim

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:18:20 +0000

The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics is pleased to welcome Dr Gareth Lim, Ph.D.

ACB Seminar Series: Maria Vera, PhD "The role of biomolecular condensates in guiding cell and tissue recovery from heat stress"

admin — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:09:39 +0000

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.

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.

Hannah Derue, PhD student in Professor Ribeiro da Silva’s lab, featured on the first page of the 9I�� 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.

9I�� researcher teams up with U.S. art museum to enhance understanding of chronic pain

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.

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 9I�� iGEM!

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:41:10 +0000

We are proud to share that 9I�� iGEM has won the 2025 Grand Prize at the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition. This is their second global win and another incredible achievement for 9I��!

The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics is happy to have supported this outstanding team once again and congratulates all members on their remarkable success.

Congratulations to Roberto Charles, who won the 2025/26 Personnel Awards for Black Scholars from Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:07:27 +0000

Roberto Charles won the 2025/26 Personnel Awards for Black Scholars (BSA).

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 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.

Advanced Cell Imaging Seminar presented by Avantor and Molecular Devices

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

Emerging Topics in Health (EToH) Seminar “Mechanotransduction in immune cells from the inside out”

jinglan.zhang@mcgill.ca — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:26:50 +0000

November 12, 2025

EToH Seminar Series
“Mechanotransduction in immune cells from the inside out”

Emerging Topics in Health (EToH) Seminar “Illuminating the Unseen: a fusion of art and science”

jinglan.zhang@mcgill.ca — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:29:05 +0000

EToH Seminar Series
“Illuminating the Unseen: a fusion of art and science”

Angela Palmer

Avantor Science Product Show

amanda.perozzo@mcgill.ca — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:48:15 +0000

Registration is FREE but required (via eventbrite)!