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Physiology and Pharmacology Faculty

Donglin Bai Frank Beier Dean Betts Moshmi Bhattacharya Nica Borradaile Peter Chidiac John Ciriello Brian Corneil Sean Cregan Lina Dagnino John Diguglielmo Jeffrey Dixon Stefan Everling Qingping Feng	Stephen Ferguson Melvyn Goodale Paul Gribble Robert Gros James Hammond David Hess Douglas Jones Morris Karmazyn Gerald Kidder L. Stan Leung Stephen Lomber Wei-Yang Lu Edmond Lui John MacDonald	Njanoor Narayanan Michael Poulter Marco Prado Vania Prado Jane Rylett Cheryle Seguin Stephen Sims Thomas Stavraky Rommel Tirona Brad Urquhart Tutis Vilis Graham Wagner Rennian Wang
Basic Scientists in Clinical Departments
Andy Babwah Thomas Drysdale Daniel Hardy Keith Hayes David Hill Christopher Pin Timothy Regnault Ruud Veldhuizen Andrew Watson Patricia Watson Kaiping Yang	(Obstetrics & Gynaecology) (Paediatrics) (Obstetrics & Gynaecology) (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) (Medicine) (Paediatrics) (Obstetrics & Gynaecology) (Medicine) (Obstetrics & Gynaecology) (Medicine) (Obstetrics & Gynaecology)
Cross Appointed/Other Faculty Members
Malcolm Arnold David Bailey Jack Bend Vernon Brooks Arthur Brown Howard Calhoun David Colby Ross Feldman Douglas Fraser Robert Gagnon Bing Gan Jayne Garland Femida Gwadry-Sridhar John Hamilton Scot Hamilton Lewis Hersey Maurice Hirst Michael Jackson Steven Karlik Tom Kennedy Richard Kim Robert Kline Gideon Koren James Koropatnick John Kowalchuk Dale Laird Andrew Leask James Lewis Ruth Martin Sanjay Mehta Paul Mercer Donald Mills Stephen Pasternak Richard Philp David Pomerantz Bryan Richardson Michael Rieder Bonnie Schmidt Karel Tyml Lynne Weaver Thilo Womelsdorf	(Medicine) (Medicine) (Pathology) (Emeritus) (Anatomy & Cell Biology) (Emeritus) (Microbiology and Immunology) (Medicine) (Paediatrics) (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) (Medicine) (Physical Therapy) (Medicine) (Emeritus) (entry_required) (Emeritus) (Emeritus) (entry_required) (Diagnostic Radiology) (Emeritus) (Medicine) (Emeritus) (Medicine and Paediatrics) (Oncology) (Kinesiology) (Anatomy) (Dentistry) (Medicine) (Communication Sciences & Disorders) (Medicine) (Emeritus) (entry_required) (Clinical Neurological Sciences) (Emeritus) (Emeritus) (Obstetrics & Gynaecology) (Paediatrics) (Let's Talk Science) (Medical Biophysics) (Emeritus) (entry_required)

Areas of Research Interest:

Cardiovascular Sciences

Chemical Metabolism, Drug and Environmental Safety

Chemotherapy and Molecular Oncology

Fetal and Neonatal Health, Endocrinology, Reproduction and Developmental Biology

Gap Junctions

Neurosciences

Donglin Bai	Synaptic transmission in hippocampus
Arthur Brown	Developmental neurobiology; wiring the mammalian nervous system
John Ciriello	Gender differences in peripheral and central neural mechanisms in experimental hypertension
Lique Coolen	Neurobiology of reward and motivation
Brian Corneil	Neural control of orienting movements
Sean Cregan	Neurodegeneration and stem cell regeneration
Stefan Everling	Neural correlates of cognitive control
Stephen Ferguson	Molecular pharmacology and imaging of G Protein-coupled receptor regulation and signal transduction
Douglas Fraser	Cellular mechanisms of brain injury
Mel Goodale	Neuropsychology; visually guided behaviour in human beings
Paul Gribble	Human sensory-motor control; motor learning; computational mode
Jonathan Hore	How does the brain control multi-joint arm movements in three dimensions?
Stephen Karlik	Clinical and experimental applications of MRI and spectroscopy
Stan Leung	Epilepsy, neural plasticity and neural oscillations
Stephen Lomber	Neural control of hearing and vision
Wei-Yang Lu	Function of GABA receptors in neural and non-neural tissues
John MacDonald	Cellular communication in the nervous system
Ruth Martin	Control of swallowing in normal humans and in patients with speech disorders
Stephen Pasternak	Amyloid protein processing in neurodegenerative disorders
Michael Poulter	GABAergic neurotransmission in epilepsy and neurodegenerative diseases
Marco Prado	Neurobiology of cognitive disorders and prion protein functions
Vania Prado	Neurobiology and development of animal models of neurological disorders
Jane Rylett	Neurochemical communication in the nervous system in health, aging and disease
Stephen Sims	Control of ionic channels: smooth muscle, osteoclasts, and cardiac myocytes in heart failure
Tutis Vilis	Interactions and transformations for perception and action

Skeletal Development and Remodeling

David Bailey	Food-drug interactions
Jack Bend	Environmental influences on drug metabolism
David Freeman	Pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism & drug interactions
Richard Kim	Clinical pharmacology and mechanisms involved in regulation of drug disposition
Gideon Koren	Development of new therapeutic approaches for prevention and treatment of human disease; prevention of toxic effects of drugs in susceptible individuals
Edmund Lui	Mechanisms of action of herbal medicines and herb-drug interactions
Michael Rieder	Immunopharmacology and toxicity of reactive drug metabolites
Rommel Tirona	Pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism & drug interactions
Brad Urquhart	Pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism in the setting of kidney disease

Moshmi Bhattacharya	Molecular regulation of G protein-coupled receptor signaling in breast cancer
Lina Dagnino	E2F factors in cell growth and differentiation, and in tissue remodelling
John Di Guglielmo	Growth factors in carcinogenesis and cellular differentiation
James Hammond	The physiological and pharmacological roles of nucleoside and nucleobase transporters in cell homeostasis and chemotherapeutic drug actions
James Koropatnick	Metals and treatment resistance in human tumours
Marc Tini	Gene regulation and repair

Frank Beier	Molecular control of bone growth, signaling in skeletal development and osteoarthritis
Jeff Dixon	Cellular physiology of bone and cartilage
Andrew Leask	Signal tranduction in connective tissue - growth factors, fibroblasts and fibrosis
Cheryle Seguin	Stem cells and development
Stephen Sims	Control of ionic channels in connective tissue
Patricia Watson	Bone metabolism, metabolic bone disease, osteoporosis, parathyroid hormone, parathyroid hormone receptors

Malcolm Arnold	Venous receptor pharmacology in normals and heart failure
Donglin Bai	Role of gap junctions in cardiac arrhythmias
Peter Chidiac	Regulation of G protein signaling by receptors and RGS proteins
John Ciriello	Gender differences in peripheral and central neural mechanisms in experimental hypertension
Thomas Drysdale	Heart Development
Ross Feldman	Adrenergic receptors, adenylyl cyclase, G-proteins, and hypertension
Qingping Feng	Nitric oxide and heart failure
Stephen Ferguson	Molecular pharmacology and imaging of G Protein-coupled receptor regulation and signal transduction
Robert Gros	G-protein coupled receptors and control of blood pressure
James Hammond	The physiological and pharmacological roles of nucleoside and nucleobase transporters in cell homeostasis and chemotherapeutic drug actions
Douglas Jones	Experimental cardiac physiology; cardiac arrhythmias; heart failure
Morris Karmazyn	Cellular and molecular basis for cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure
James Lewis	Pulmonary surfactant system
Wei-Yang Lu	Role of GABA receptors in stroke
John MacDonald	Cellular and molecular mechanisms of stroke
Claudio Martin	Hemodynamics and oxygen delivery in sepsis
Sanjya Mehta	Mechanisms and pathophysiology of pulmonary inflammation and abnormal pulmonary vascular responses in inflammatory pulmonary disease
Njanoor Narayanan	Regulation of transmembrane calcium fluxes and heart function in health, aging and disease
Karel Tyml	Local blood flow control in health and disease
Ruud Veldhuizen	Pulmonary surfactant in experimental lung pathology

Andy Babwah	Molecular and cellular endocrinology
Frank Beier	Molecular control of bone growth
Dean Betts	Epigenetic control of cell differentiation and development
Lique Coolen	Neurobiology of reward and motivation
Lina Dagnino	E2F factors in cell growth and differentiation, and in tissue remodelling
John Di Guglielmo	Growth factors in carcinogenesis and cellular differentiation
Thomas Drysdale	Heart development
Douglas Fraser	Cellular mechanisms of brain injury
Daniel Hardy	Metabolic syndrome and fetal development
David Hess	Stem cell biology and roles in diabetes
David Hill	Pancreatic islet cell growth and differentiation, and diabetes
Gerald Kidder	Reproductive physiology: mechanisms of gametogenesis and embryogenesis
Christopher Pin	Molecular events leading to pancreatic development and disease
Timothy Regnault	Altered fetal development, adaptation and later life diseases
Bryan Richardson	development of the brain and its circulation
Cheryle Seguin	Developmental biology
Graham Wagner	Biology of stanniocalcin in metabolism, reproduction, and development
Rennian Wang	Development of human pancreas, beta-cell regeneration and islet transplantation
Andrew Watson	Gene expression underlying mammalian preimplantation embryogenesis
Kaipang Yang	Molecular mechanisms of fetal growth restriction and fetal origins of central obesity

Donglin Bai	Gap junction mutation in human diseases. Synaptic transmission in hippocampus
Douglas Jones	Cardiac physiology; cardiac arrhythmias; heart failure
Gerald Kidder	Reproductive physiology: mechanisms of gametogenesis and embryogenesi
Dale Laird	Gap junctions in health, cancer and inherited diseases
Karel Tyml	Local blood flow control in health and disease

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