Faculty

Graduate Student Research Day: Imaging the innate immune system during regeneration and...

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:50:51 +0000

Graduate Student Research Day
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Kubes

Pharmacology & Therapeutics Seminar: Yangfan Jin, PhD Candidate “Regulation of murine follicle-stimulating hormone β subunit transcription by newly identified enhancers”

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:58:11 +0000

Senior Seminar Announcement Yangfan Jin, PhD Candidate

Biochemistry Seminar: Claudia Kleinman, PhD - From Robust Cell Fates to Plastic States: Lineage Programs in Pediatric Brain Tumors

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:01:19 +0000

From Robust Cell Fates to Plastic States: Lineage Programs in Pediatric Brain Tumors

Seminar by Claudia Kleinman, PhD

ACB Seminar Series: Colin Crist, PhD "Context-Dependent Roles of CTCF in Muscle Lineage Specification, Regeneration and Homeostasis"

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:51:26 +0000

Inaugural Barbara Hales Lectureship in Toxicology with Dana Dolinoy, PhD.

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:34:16 +0000

Inaugural Barbara Hales Lectureship in Toxicology with Dana Dolinoy PhD.

Mark Nickerson Memorial Lecture with Amanda Garner“Enabling Technologies for Revealing Druggable Paths in RNA Biology”

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:33:27 +0000

Mark Nickerson Memorial Lecture with Amanda Garner, PhD.

Professor and Associate Chair

Department of Chemistry

Inaugural Diamond Lecture "Extracellular vesicles as stress signaling mechanism and biomarkers in psychiatry""

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:03:21 +0000

Inaugural Diamond Lecture Hosted by the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and the Department of Physiology

with Dr Tacy L. Bale

Avantor/VWR Product Show

amanda.perozzo@mcgill.ca — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:54:02 +0000

Congratulations to Maddison Arlen, a PhD candidate in Dr. Carolyn Baglole's laboratory.

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:53:53 +0000

Congratulations to Maddison Arlen, a PhD candidate in Dr.

Genome QC In-Person Support Session

amanda.perozzo@mcgill.ca — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:04:17 +0000

Congratulations to �� iGEM!

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:41:10 +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.

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).

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

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

Biotech Connect Product Show

amanda.perozzo@mcgill.ca — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:50:41 +0000

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Prager-Khoutorsky lab publishes in Neuron.

admin — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:49:59 +0000

The study entitled “Microglia regulate neuronal activity via structural remodeling of astrocytes”, finds that a high-salt diet triggers brain inflammation that drives up blood pressure.

The study has been highlighted by:

�� Newsroom:

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