People

Nicole Campbell, PhD

Program Director

Research Interests / Specializations: Creating a learner-centred environment where students learn from content and one another and ultimately develop transferable skills
Teaching: Interdisciplinary Skill Development

Jennifer Franco

Program Coordinator

Nica Borradaile, PhD

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Understanding the biochemical and molecular pathways involved in liver and vascular responses to excess lipid
Teaching: Seminar Series

Arthur Brown, PhD

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Exploring neurological disease and neurodevelopment by initiating studies to address the role of embryonic genetic programs in regeneration and recovery from spinal cord injury
Teaching: Intellectual Property, Implementation, and Commercialization

Thomas Drysdale, PhD

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Understanding the molecular events that govern the development of specific organs. In particular, the early development of the cardiovascular system, the lung and thyroid
Teaching: Academic Integrity and Professionalism

Martin Duennwald, PhD

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Protein misfolding, neurodegenerative diseases, cellular protein quality control, protein-protein interactions, and yeast models
Teaching: Designing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Medical Science Research

Gregory Gloor, PhD

Professor Chair, Department of Biochemistry

Research Interests / Specializations: Cell and molecular biology, computational biology, genetics and microbial genomics, and protein co-evolution
Teaching: Data Science

Faraj Haddad, PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: Investigating the link between maternal infection during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders; Exploring how science communication to lay audiences is taught at undergraduate and graduate programs.
Teaching: Lab rotations

Hossein Noyan, PhD

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Oxidative stress, inflammation, aging, cytoprotective strategies, visual literacy
Teaching: Course coordinator for the 9507-block course, Supervising Capstone projects

Adrian Owen, PhD

Adjunct Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Neuroimaging (MRI and EEG) with cognitive studies in brain-injured patients and healthy participants
Teaching: Communicating Science in the 21st Century