�� News - Dept. of Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Adithi Sundarakrishnan won the Best Graduate Student Poster Presentation Award at a symposium held by the Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology (CSBN) at Concordia University

webfull — Thu, 16 May 2024 18:59:39 +0000

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.

Published: 16 May 2024

Seline Vancolen is awarded 1st Place Senior Poster Presentation Award

webfull — Thu, 16 May 2024 17:42:10 +0000

Seline is awarded the 1^st Place Senior Poster Presentation Award at the Child Health and Human Development Research Day 2024 of the Research Institute of the �� Health Centre. Congratulations Seline!

Published: 16 May 2024

Zixuan Li received the �� MedStar Award for her publication that appeared in the August 2023 issue of Endocrinology (doi: 10.1210/endocr/bqad119.)

webfull — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 20:39:33 +0000

Zixuan Li received the �� MedStar Award for her publication entitled “The Organophosphate Esters Used as Flame Retardants and Plasticizers Affect H295R Adrenal Cell Phenotypes and Functions”, in recognition of the excellent research carried out in the Faculty of Medicine at ��. 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.

Published: 26 April 2024

Congratulations to Tara Shomali, who received the prestigious Graduate Student Award from Parkinson Canada (2024-2026 cycle)!

webfull — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:39:44 +0000

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’s disease across Canada. This will help Tara works towards developing compounds targeting PINK1, a kinase implicated in early-onset familial Parkinson’s.

Parkinson Canada announces over $ 1.9 million in research competition funding

Published: 26 April 2024

The Admin. staff of Pharmacology & Therapeutics at FMHS Community Celebration Breakfast

webfull — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:35:23 +0000

The Admin. staff of Pharmacology & Therapeutics department participated at the FMHS Community Celebration Breakfast, Wednesday, June 14, at the Percival Molson Stadium.

Published: 14 June 2023

Pharmacology & Therapeutics Admin. team escaped from A/MAZE military facility

webfull — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 19:21:46 +0000

The admin. office team escaped from A/MAZE military facility on May 29, 2023.

Published: 7 June 2023

Lama Iskandarani wins Best Poster or Oral Presentation Award in the Postdoctoral Fellow category

webfull — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:48:12 +0000

Lama won Best Poster or Oral Presentation award (Postdoctoral Fellow category) for her poster entitled "The effects of bisphenols A and its structural analogs on the expression of gene transcripts involved in the regulation of steroidogenesis in KGN human granulosa cells" at the Pharmacology Research Day on May 11, 2023. Kudos to Lama!

Published: 17 May 2023

Braeden Giles wins Best 3-minute Flash Talk Award

webfull — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:46:41 +0000

Braeden won the Best 3-minute Flash Talk Award at the Pharmacology Research Day on May 11, 2023. His talk was entitled "Environmentally Relevant Mixtures of Organophosphate Esters Suppress THP-1 Macrophage phagocytosis". Congratulations Braeden!

Published: 17 May 2023

Congratulations to Irem Ulku, received a Junior Faculty Award at the ADPD 2023

webfull — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:46:22 +0000

Congratulations to Irem Ulku, from Prof. Gerhard Multhaup’s lab, who received a Junior Faculty Award at the ADPD 2023, Advances in Science & Therapy. International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases and related neurological disorders. The Conference was held from March 28^th – April 1^st, in Götheborg, Sweden. There were over 4000 attendees and Irem was one out of 20 recipients.

Published: 3 April 2023

Congratulations to our Pharmacology Integrative League of Students (PILS)!

webfull — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:15:50 +0000

We are proud to announce that they won Large Departmental Council of the Year at the Science Undergraduate Society Appreciation Night (SUSANs) that was held on Tuesday, March 28^th 2023 . They were awarded this prize for bringing the department together, hosting events, and supporting their community, and they’re looking forward to an even bigger and better year in 2023-2024!