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The lab was awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant entitled, Genomics of DNA repair in the brain ($152,500). The long-term objective of my research program is to understand the fundamental biology of DNA repair in the brain.

We’re excited to share the lab’s first paper was published in Cell Death Discovery! This study, led by graduate student Alana Slike, highlights the beneficial neurogenic role of huntingtin in modifying neurobiological traits in humans (outside of Huntington disease), pointing to roles for the gene in longevity and aging.

Galen was one of the CRC delegates at the Science Meets Parliament two-day event in Ottawa. He attended workshops, met with with Parliamentarians and visited Parliament Hill. After the event, he presented in the Neurosciences Seminar Series held by the Neurosciences Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and the uOttawa Brain and Mind Research Institute.

Congratulations to both Dhruv Raolji (Wright Lab) and Bilal Cheema (co-supervised with the Drögemöller Lab) who successfully completed their B.Sc. Genetics Honors projects today. Great presentations, it’s amazing to see how far your projects have come over the last couple of months!

Congratulations to graduate student, Alana Slike, for receiving the prestigious CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship!

The Wright and Drögemöller labs were awarded Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowships to visit collaborators (Drs. Soraya Bardien, Nathaniel McGregor and Shahida Moosa) at Stellenbosch University for three weeks in February 2022.

We are excited to share our new collaborative paper, A systematic review and analysis of the use of polygenic scores in pharmacogenomics, which was published in Clinical Pharamcology and Therapeutics. This article iss the first to comprehensively assess the use of polygenic scores in pharmacogenomics and show the clinical relevance of these scores for drug-related clinical outcomes.

Welcome, Abdoulaye Diarra, who is joining the team as a full-time research technician! Abdoulaye recently completed their M.Sc. in Immunology (2020) from the University of Manitoba (Ghia lab). We look forward to working with them!

The Summer of 2021 has flown by! We celebrated the progress of our undergrad researchers by having them present brief research presentations! Farewell Gabi and Claudia, we wish you the best for the future!

Welcome to our first graduate student, Alana Slike! Alana completed their B.Sc. (Hons.) in Neuroscience at University of Winnipeg and performed her thesis research work related to aging and Alzheimer’s disease in the Albensi lab at the University of Manitoba.