PhysPharm Winter/Spring Seminar SeriesPlease follow this link to the new schedule |
2012 Holiday Party!
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Western researchers make breakthrough in arthritis research
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Grapefruit juice interaction with drugs can be deadly
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Communication from a 'Vegetative State'
CBC news has documented a video regarding Dr. Owen's efforts, and his interview this morning with Anna Maria Tremonti on CBC radio's 'The Current' can be listened to online |
PhysPharm 2012 Pancake Breakfast was a sweet success
The smell of bacon fill the halls. Thanks to all who came out to enjoy a hearty breafast of pancakes with all the toppings. This year over $700 was raised to support the United Way. View pictures of this event on Flickr! |
Graduate Student Positions Available
Weekly Seminar
Tony K.T. Lam, PhD
University Health Network and the University of Toronto
"Repeated antenatal corticosteroids - the good, the bad and the unknown"
Monday January 21
4:00 pm
DSB rm 2016
Everyone Welcome Refreshments
2013 Winter/Spring Seminar Series
Featured Grad Paper
Jessica Esseltine
Physiology and Pharmacology News
Researchers at Western University have made a breakthrough that could lead to a better understanding of a common form of arthritis that, until now, has eluded scientists. … 
David Bailey, a clinical pharmacologist at Western and the Lawson Health Research Institute, discovered the interaction between grapefruit and certain medications more than 20 years ago. Since then, he said, the number of drugs with the potential to interact has jumped to more than 85. 
Dr. Adrian Owen and his team have successfully communicated with Scott Routley, a 39 year old London Ontario man who is living in a vegetative state. 
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MSc and PhD degrees in "Physiology and Pharmacology" begin September 2012
The Department of Physiology and Pharmacology graduate student training programs recently underwent accreditation review, and we are happy to report that they received the top rating and have been renewed for the next 8-year period. An important part of this review process involved evaluation of our proposal to consolidate our degrees to offer the first MSc and PhD degrees in “Physiology and Pharmacology” in Canada. We have now received approval from the university Senate so that students entering our graduate programs beginning September 2012 will receive their degrees in Physiology & Pharmacology, rather than in Physiology or in Pharmacology. In the coming months, we will be making changes to some of the academic requirements of our program so students can achieve competency in the fundamentals of both of these disciplines and enhanced interdisciplinary training.
