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The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics is happy to have supported this outstanding team once again and congratulates all members on their remarkable success.听
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Hannah Derue is a PhD candidate in neuroscience in Dr. Ribeiro-da-Silva鈥檚 lab at the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics. She recently founded a research and development startup called PAin+ 鈥� an interdisciplinary venture that combines artificial intelligence and visual art to help individuals communicate about and manage chronic pain in novel ways.
Roberto Charles won the 2025/26 Personnel Awards for Black Scholars (BSA).听
Congratulations to听Terry H茅bert, 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听been supervising for 10 years or more.
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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.
Sabrina Romanelli (PhD3) and Tara Shomali (PhD 4) were awarded the FRQS doctoral scholarship ("Bourses de doctorat en recherche - volet r茅gulier鈥�). Both are supplemented by a contribution from Parkinson Quebec in partnership with the FRQ.
Danielle Simons (PhD2) has been awarded the 2025 Max Eivaskhani Memorial Fellowship from the听Centre de Recherche en Biologie Structurale听(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, who received听The Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation鈥檚听Edwards PhD. Studentships in Pain Research 2025.听This听Studentship听carries with it a stipend of $25,000 per annum for three years.
Congratulations to Thomas Deluc/PostDoc, who received听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 (205-2027 cycle). This competitive 2-yr $40,000 award was given to 11 exceptional doctoral trainees across Canada working on Parkinson鈥檚 disease. Sabrina鈥檚 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鈥檚 function.
Adithi Sundarakrishnan from the Clarke lab won the Best Graduate Student Poster Presentation Award at a symposium held by the Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology (CSBN) at Concordia University. Additionally, she secured the Best 3-Minute Thesis Presentation Award at the recent School of Biomedical Sciences (SMBS) Grad Talks event.
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Seline is awarded the听1st听Place Senior Poster Presentation Award听at the Child Health and Human Development Research Day 2024 of the Research Institute of the 麻豆传媒网站 Health Centre. Congratulations Seline!
Zixuan Li received the 麻豆传媒网站 MedStar Award for her publication entitled 鈥�The Organophosphate Esters Used as Flame Retardants and Plasticizers Affect H295R Adrenal Cell Phenotypes and Functions鈥�, in recognition of the excellent research carried out in the Faculty of Medicine at 麻豆传媒网站. The findings from this paper demonstrate that organophosphate esters have chemical-specific effects on cortisol and aldosterone production and thus the adrenal may be an important target for these endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
Congratulations to Tara Shomali, who received the prestigious Graduate Student Award from Parkinson Canada (2024-2026 cycle). This is a competitive 2-yr $40,000 award given to only 7 outstanding doctoral trainees doing research on Parkinson鈥檚 disease across Canada. This will help Tara works towards developing compounds targeting PINK1, a kinase implicated in early-onset familial Parkinson鈥檚.
The Admin. staff of Pharmacology & Therapeutics department participated at the FMHS Community Celebration Breakfast,听Wednesday, June 14, at the Percival Molson Stadium.
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The admin. office team escaped from on May 29, 2023.
