Haley Geertsma

Haley Geertsma

Haley is a postdoctoral fellow examining the use of patient-derived stem cells to discover new drug therapies for myotonic dystrophy….

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Biobanking

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…infrastructural component and focus on sample sharing for research, Hanns has established biobanks for his own research groups, making their samples accessible to researchers worldwide. In Munich, Germany, he initiated…

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Industry collaborations

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…with patients and patient groups to establish their needs and priorities for such research. Patient preferences are studied and taken into consideration. While working in Europe, Hanns was responsible for

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Lochmüller Lab seeking PhD student

…Institute, and the CHEO hospital. This arrangement fosters valuable collaboration among various groups, facilitating the exchange of resources and equipment. Ottawa provides a vibrant, inclusive, cost-effective, and friendly atmosphere for

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Emily Freeman

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…Here she discovered a sex-dependant role for the small molecule channel Pannexin 1 in healthy skeletal muscle and found it to be a novel therapeutic target for Duchenne muscular dystrophy….

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Danny Jomaa

Danny is currently a second-year medical student at Queen’s University and is joining the Lochmüller Lab as a summer research student for summer 2020 for a bioinformatics-focused project investigating pediatric…

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Erin Beattie

Erin is the Network Manager for NMD4C, the neuromuscular disease network for Canada. She graduated with a BSc in microbiology & immunology and an MSc in pharmacology from Dalhousie University,…

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Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common childhood muscular dystrophy and is caused by defects in the DMD gene, which is responsible for making the protein dystrophin. It is…

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