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.

ACB Seminar Series: Alicia Ebert, PhD "Looking forward and reverse: Sema6A/PlexinA2 signaling in the developing zebrafish retina"

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:45:50 +0000

ACB Seminar Series: Andrew Kruse, PhD "Activation of the angiotensin and relaxin receptors by chemically divergent drugs"

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:53:37 +0000

ACB Seminar Series: Mary Munson, PhD "Dissecting the molecular mechanisms that regulate intracellular membrane fusion."

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:00:34 +0000

Dissecting the role of IL-18 signalling on...

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:25:28 +0000

Graduate Student Seminar: Switch Presentation
Speaker: Fiona Rees

Investigating Immunomodulatory Biomaterial Coatings for...

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:27:42 +0000

Graduate Student Seminar: M.Sc. Final Presentation
Speaker: Alexandre Bay

Investigating the permissive immune environment underlying...

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:29:44 +0000

Graduate Student Seminar: Switch Presentation
Speaker: Yichen Li

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.

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.

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

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:44:40 +0000

Theodore L. Sourkes Lecture in Neuropharmacology

D. James Surmeier, PhD

Avantor Science Product Show

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

Registration is FREE but required (via eventbrite)!

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/