The Graduate Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences offers exciting seminars featuring scientists from across Canada and around the world, with occasional seminars by our own faculty and members of other departments at U of T and surrounding hospitals/institutes. These seminars provide an opportunity for all to meet outstanding, world-renowned scientists. Seminar speakers also schedule additional time for informal discussions with faculty and students. Regular attendance at seminars is required of all graduate students.

Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Requirement

All graduate students are required to attend the departmental seminars each year:

  • Full-time students: a minimum of eight (8) departmental seminars per academic year
  • Part-time/Flex-time students: a minimum of four (4) departmental seminars per academic year.

Students may fulfill up to 50% of their annual quota at sanctioned external seminars.

2024-2025 Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Schedule

Seminar Type Date & Time Speaker Host Title LOCATION
PhD Public Seminar Series Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 9:00am Vishal Sangha, PhD Candidate Dr. Reina Bendayan Novel Approaches for Effective Folate Delivery in Cerebral Folate Deficiency Disorders PB-850

PhD Public Seminar Series

Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 10:00am Fule Jackie Liu, PhD Candidate Dr. Shirley Wu Development and Translation of Novel Glucose-Responsive Peptide Hormone Delivery Systems for Diabetes Treatments PB-450
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Monday, September 30, 2024, 11:00am Dr. Helen Palma (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) and Lucero Diaz Gomez (University of Toronto, Public Health and Global Health). Dr. Jillian Kohler Challenges surrounding vaccine accessibility and adherence among the Awajún indigenous population in the Peruvian Amazon PB-850
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 1:00pm
 
Dr. Jason Guertin (Laval University) Dr. Mina Tadrous Confounding and ICERs: An often ignored relationship PB-850
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Friday, October 18, 2024, 11:00am Professor Kazuhiko Nakatani (Osaka University) Dr. Tigran Chalikian Possibilities and Challenges of Small Molecule Organic Compounds for the Treatment of Repeat Diseases PB-850
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Friday, November 1, 2024, 11:00am Mark DiBiase​ (UN Development Programme​) Dr. Jillian Kohler Advancing anti-corruption, transparency and accountability in health programmes: UNDP's approach to corruption risk management​ PB-850
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Friday, November 15, 2024, 11:00am Dr. Pedro Brugarolas Dr. Lakshmi Kotra Development and evaluation of PET tracers for K+ channels to image demyelinating diseases PB-850
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Friday, November 29, 2024, 11:00am Dr. Jack Antel (McGill University) Dr. Lakshmi Kotra Basis of Tissue injury and Potential for Repair in Multiple Sclerosis   PB-850
PhD Public Seminar Series Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 2:00pm Constantine Georgiou, PhD Candidate Dr. Ray Reilly Radiolabeled Gold Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Glioblastoma by Convection Enhanced Delivery PB-850
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 10:00am Dr. Michael Zalutsky (Duke University) Dr. Ray Reilly Astatine-211 – The Kinder, Gentler Alpha Emitter for Targeted Radionuclide Therapy Zoom
 
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 2:00pm Dr. Laurent Salphati  (Genentech) Dr. Carolyn Cummins Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics in drug development - From uncovering unusual PK profiles to supporting drug approval PB-850
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Friday, January 31, 2025 Dr. Peter Roy (University of Toronto) Dr. Carolyn Cummins Yeast-Expressed P450s Reveal Novel Candidate Pro-Insecticides to Combat Mosquito Vectors of Malaria, West Nile, and Other Diseases PB-850
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Friday, February 28, 2025, 11:00am Dr. Yoon Yeo (Purdue University) Dr. Tim Corson Drug-eluting polymer systems for the control of local inflammation and ocular neovascularization PB-850
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Friday, March 7, 2025, 11:00am Dr. Scott Parnell (UNC-Chapel Hill) Dr. Peter Wells Genetic factors underlying susceptibility to prenatal alcohol exposure Zoom
PhD Public Seminar Series Tuesday, March 11, 2025
1:00pm
Ashley Cheng, PhD Candidate Dr. Peter Wells Investigating Oxidatively Damaged DNA in the Fetal Brain: Epigenetic Implications for Neurodevelopmental Disorders PB-850
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Tuesday, March 11, 2025
2:00pm
Dr. Frank Wuest (University of Alberta) Dr. Ray Reilly Imaging biomarkers in oncology: The role of radiopharmaceuticals in the era of precision oncology PB-450
PhD Public Seminar Series Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 11:00am Misaki Kondo, PhD Candidate Dr. Ray Reilly HER2-targeted Theranostic Radioimmunoconjugates for SPECT Imaging and α-particle Radioimmunotherapy of HER2-positive Breast Cancer PB-850
PhD Public Seminar Series Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 12:00pm Maham Zain, PhD Candidate Dr. Rob Bonin Chronic Pain Mediated Changes in the Sensory and Affective Coding of Low Threshold Sensory Information PB-850
PhD Public Seminar Series Monday, March 31, 2025, 1:00pm Chukwunonso Nwabufo, PhD Candidate Dr. Lisa Dolovich Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Drug Processing and Therapeutic Outcomes PB-450
PhD Public Seminar Series Thursday, April 3, 2025, 2:00pm Michael Saikali, PhD Candidate Dr. Carolyn Cummins The Development of a Targeted Parallel Reaction Monitoring Assay to Quantify all 49 Murine Nuclear Receptors and its Application in Mouse Liver PB-1210
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Friday, April 4, 2025 Dr. David Moore (UC Berkeley) Dr. Carolyn Cummins TBA PB-850
PhD Public Seminar Series Monday, April 7, 2025, 10:00am Bassem Toeama, PhD Candidate Dr. Manny Papadimitropoulos & Paul Grootendorst Cost and Clinical Effectiveness of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound versus Open Radical Prostatectomy, Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy, or External Beam Radiation Therapy in Men with Localized Low and Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer: A Cost-Utility Analysis PB-450
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Thursday, April 10, 2025   Dr. Hagar Labouta   PB-850
PhD Public Seminar Series Monday, April 14, 2025 Tiffany Ho, PhD Candidate Dr. Gang Zheng Potentiation of Porphysome Photodynamic Therapy via an Unconventional Membrane Fluidization Strategy PB-450
PhD Public Seminar Series Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 1:00pm Chang (Shirley) Huang, PhD Candidate Dr. Reina Bendayan Investigating the Toxicity and Associated Mechanisms of Antiretroviral Drugs in the Central Nervous System

PB-450

PhD Public Seminar Series Monday, May 12, 2025, 1:00pm De Hua (Andy) Yang, PhD Candidate Dr. Stephane Angers Leveraging FZD Receptor Antibodies to Understand and Precisely Activate Wnt/β-Catenin Signalling Pathway for Neural Patterning in hPSC PB-850
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series Friday, June 13, 2025, 11:00am Dr. Sara Allin

Dr. Jen Lake

Why is major change in Canada's health system so rare? Insights from a health policy researcher PB-850
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series MONDAY, July 14, 2025 Dr. Naoki Sugimoto Dr. Tigran Chalikian

All about “To B or not to B” in Nucleic Acids Chemistry

PB-255

Seminar Coordinator

Dr. Carolyn Cummins

Email: carolyn.cummins@utoronto.ca

 

Booking Information

Graduate Program Assistant

Email: phm.grad@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-8896