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MeDiC  |  Metabolic Disorders and Complications Program

Events

The MeDiC Program organizes and supports numerous speakers, seminars, and symposia throughout the year.

2024 RI-MUHC Summer Student Research Day

Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, July 22, 2024, Registration Deadline: Sunday, August 11, 2024

ACT-CTU Clinical Trial Rounds

Topic: Trials of Complex Interventions: What, Why, Where, and How

MeDiC Program Seminar Series Spring 2025

MeDiC Program seminars are held on Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise stated). Seminars will be in English and held in person in room EM1.3509, Glen site.

Joint seminars with MeDiC Program and Endocrinology Rounds are held on Thursdays from 12 to 1 p.m. and with Nephrology Rounds, seminars are held on Fridays from 12 to 1 p.m.

For further information, please contact Kim Gardner at kim.gardner@affiliate.mcgill.ca.

Date
Speaker
Thursday, January 23, 2025
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
FRQS Network on Rare Diseases - Joint seminar with IDIGH and CHHD
Donald Vinh, MD, FRCPC, FACP
Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program (IDIGH)
Geneviève Bernard, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Child Health and Human Development Program (CHHD)
RI-MUHC
Topic: RARE. QC: The network to advance research on rare diseases in Quebec
Poster
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Thomas Kitzler, MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, McGill University
Principal Investigator, Child Health and Human Development Program - Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Medical Geneticist, Division of Medical Genetics, McGill University Health Centre
Topic: Exploring novel genotype-phenotype relationships to uncover the hidden heritability in chronic kidney disease
Poster
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Nisha Gupta, MDCM, MSc, MBA MHS, FRCPC
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, McGill University
Potential recruit to the MeDiC Program and the Division of Endocrinology
Topic: Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Medical and Surgical Obesity Treatments in Canada
Poster
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Work in Progress
Mehran Alizadeh Harzevili, PhD Graduate Student
Supervisor: Shafaat Rabbani
Topic: Urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) as a therapeutic target in malignancy
Rita Kalot, PhD Graduate Student
Supervisor: Elena Torban
Topic: Defining the interaction network of the cplane complex reveals cilia and actin regulatory components
Poster
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Stephanie Borgland, PhD, MSc
Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary
Topic: Diet induced obesity and astrocytes in the orbitofrontal cortex: How decisions about food intake shift
Poster
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Jonathan Rocheleau, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital, Research Institute, UHN
Topic: Linking Islet Metabolism to Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine-Induced Loss of Function
Poster
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Sirui Zhou, PhD
Associate Member, Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery
Associate Professor, Quantitative Life Science & Human Genetics
McGill University
Topic: Circulating proteomics and how to use them (in disease target identification)
Poster
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Nagarajan Vaidehi, PhD, MSc
Professor and Chair, Department of Computational & Quantitative Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope
Associate Director, Informatics and Computational Biomedicine, Comprehensive Cancer Center
Topic: The role of allostery in designing drugs with lower side effects
Poster
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Alexandria Ratzki-Leewing, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, Division of Gerontology, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health Associate, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University
Topic: Therapeutic Inertia and Hypoglycemia in Diabetes: A Chicken-and-Egg?"
Poster

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