Current Members

Rithwik Ramachandran, PhD
Principal Investigator

Research Interests: GPCRs, TRP channels, Inflammation, Drug Discovery
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Teaching: Physiology and Pharmacology

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Email: [email protected]
Phone; 519-661-2142

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Maryam Al Khannaq, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow

​Research Interests: GPCR dimerization, thrombosis, calcium signaling

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XiaoWen (Kelly) Zhou
PhD Student

Research Interests: Adhesion GPCRs, Molecular Pharmacology

​MSB 270

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Amr Mousa
PhD Student

Research Interests: Osteoarthritis, Protease Activated Receptors, Animal Models​

​MSB 268

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Saiswaran Manorathan
PhD Student

Research Interests: Renal Cancer, G proteins, KIM-1​

​MSB 270

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Shaymaa Khalil
​PhD Student

Research Interests: Sepsis, TRPV4, calcium signalling​

​MSB 268

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Robbie Menzies
PhD Student

Research Interests: Choroid plexus, TRPV4, calcium signalling​

​MSB 270

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Douglas Lau
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Student
Research Interests / Specializations: Protease Activated Receptor Signaling, Fibrosis

Zainab Al-Atwani
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Research Interests / Specializations: Science communication, Protease Activated Receptor Signaling, Inflammation

Lab Alumni
Benjamin Fretz, Honours Thesis Student, 2024-2025
Missy Kim, Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2022-2024
​Eddie Chen, Undergraduate Research Assistant and Honours Thesis Student, 2022-2024
Mani Pahlewani, Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2023-2024
Sanjog Brar, MSc Student, 2022-2025
Chen Jun Gao, MSc Student, 2021-2023
Darsh Shah, Honours Thesis Student, 2021-2022 
Danny Dawd, Honours Thesis Student, 2021-2022
Dr. Arundhasa Chandrabalan, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, 2018-2021
Varunaavee Shivasanmugathas, Scholars Elective Student, 2019-2021
Junbo Wang, Summer Student and Honours Thesis Student, 2019-2021
Victor Mirka, MSc Student, 2019-2021
Peter Pham, MSc Student, 2018-2020
Dr. Pierre Thibeault, PhD Student, 2015-2020
Samantha Ingham, Honors Thesis Student, 2019-2020
Dr. Anil Zechariah, Research Associate 2018-2019
Michele Cai, Graduate Student, 2018-2019
Viktor Mirka, Honors Thesis Student. 2018-2019
Tiffany Ho, DUROP Summer Student and Undergraduate Research Assistant. 2018-2019
Isaac Kong, Honors Thesis Student. 2017-2018
Brian Yu, Undergraduate Research Assistant and Summer Student
Shamez Khachra, Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2017-2018
Hayden Chow, Honors Thesis Student, 2016-2017
Jessica Bertschman, Honors Thesis Student, 2016-2017
D'Arcy Arends, Honors Thesis Student and Summer Student, 2016-2017
Wajahat Syed, Honors Thesis Student, 2015-2016
​Dr. Christie Godin Vanderboor, Research Associate 2015-2017