Students

Congratulations to �� iGEM!

paulina.efthimiakopoulos@mcgill.ca — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:41:09 +0000

We are proud to share that �� 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 ��!

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

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

hong.qin@mcgill.ca — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:12:07 +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.

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

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

hong.qin@mcgill.ca — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:26:35 +0000

Seminar Announcement

Jamie Engert, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, Division of Cardiology,
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Congratulations to Roberto Charles, who won the 2025/26 Personnel Awards for Black Scholars from Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada

hong.qin@mcgill.ca — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:07:27 +0000

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

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

hong.qin@mcgill.ca — 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

Seminar Series: Jennifer Estall, Ph.D.

hong.qin@mcgill.ca — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:34:08 +0000

Seminar Announcement

Jennifer Estall, Ph.D.

Research Professor

Theodore L. Sourkes Lecture in Neuropharmacology_D.James Surmeier,PhD_ Pharmacology & Therapeutics

hong.qin@mcgill.ca — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:44:39 +0000

Theodore L. Sourkes Lecture in Neuropharmacology

D. James Surmeier, PhD

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

hong.qin@mcgill.ca — 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.

Seminar Series Pharmacology & Therapeutics_Jean-Christophe Leroux, Ph.D._"3D printing of drug eluting devices: from tracheal stents to colonic capsules"

chantal.grignon@mcgill.ca — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:54:29 +0000

Seminar Announcement

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

hong.qin@mcgill.ca — 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 Danielle Simons-PhD2 in Dr. Jean-Francois Trempe's lab, who has been awarded the 2025 Max Eivaskhani Memorial Fellowship from CRBS

hong.qin@mcgill.ca — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:22:00 +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 Simran Dhir-PhD2 and Thomas Deluc - PostDoc in the lab of Dr. Alfredo Ribeiro Da Silva

hong.qin@mcgill.ca — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:05:51 +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 Sabrina Romanelli, who received a prestigious Graduate Student Award from Parkinson Canada (2025-2027 cycle)

hong.qin@mcgill.ca — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:58:26 +0000

Congratulations to Sabrina Romanelli, who received a prestigious Graduate Student Award from Parkinson Canada (205-2027 cycle). This competitive 2-yr $40,000 award was given to 11 exceptional doctoral trainees across Canada working on Parkinson’s disease. Sabrina’s project aims to elucidate the mechanism of PINK1 activation on damaged mitochondria via interactions with the translocation machinery. Her work will help us understand how Parkinson-associated genetic variants impair PINK1’s function.

Senior Seminar Pharmacology & Therapeutics_ Reily Pidgeon,PhD Candidate_"You are what you(r gut microbes) eat: Discovery of castalagin — a prebiotic that modulates microbiome composition and metabolic activity”

hong.qin@mcgill.ca — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:56:23 +0000

Senior Seminar Announcement

Reily Pidgeon

Ph.D Candidate

Pharmacology & Therapeutics Seminar Series_Carole Yauk, Ph.D_“Genome Under Fire: Impacts of Prolonged Mutagen Exposure Unveiled by Error-Corrected Sequencing”

hong.qin@mcgill.ca — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:03:32 +0000

Seminar Announcement

Carole Yauk, Ph.D

Professor, Department of Biology

Ottawa University

Students

Congratulations to �������� iGEM!

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

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

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

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

Seminar Series: Jennifer Estall, Ph.D.

Theodore L. Sourkes Lecture in Neuropharmacology_D.James Surmeier,PhD_ Pharmacology & Therapeutics

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

Seminar Series Pharmacology & Therapeutics_Jean-Christophe Leroux, Ph.D._"3D printing of drug eluting devices: from tracheal stents to colonic capsules"

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

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

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

Congratulations to Sabrina Romanelli, who received a prestigious Graduate Student Award from Parkinson Canada (2025-2027 cycle)

Senior Seminar Pharmacology & Therapeutics_ Reily Pidgeon,PhD Candidate_"You are what you(r gut microbes) eat: Discovery of castalagin — a prebiotic that modulates microbiome composition and metabolic activity”

Pharmacology & Therapeutics Seminar Series_Carole Yauk, Ph.D_“Genome Under Fire: Impacts of Prolonged Mutagen Exposure Unveiled by Error-Corrected Sequencing”

Congratulations to �� iGEM!

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