Comité organisateur

Anne-Claude Gingras is a Senior Investigator at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute (Mount Sinai Hospital) and an Associate Professor in the Molecular Genetics Department at the University of Toronto. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Functional Proteomics and the Lea Reichmann Chair in Cancer Proteomics. She obtained her PhD in 2001 from McGill University for her studies on the regulation of protein synthesis which she performed under the guidance of Prof. Nahum Sonenberg. She then went on to the Institute for Systems Biology to pursue postdoctoral training under the supervision of Prof. Ruedi Aebersold, an internationally recognized leader in mass spectrometry and proteomics. Dr. Gingras was recruited to the Lunenfeld in 2005 for her expertise in proteomics and cellular signalling, and was cross-appointed in 2006 in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto. Since joining the Lunenfeld, Dr. Gingras has successfully established a research program aimed at understanding how serine/threonine phosphatases interact with regulatory molecules and substrates, and how they are regulated. Her studies have led to the discovery of a several signalling complexes important in health and disease, including in stroke and in the resistance to anticancer agents. Dr. Gingras has further blossomed into a technological innovator, and she has developed novel methods for analyzing how proteins inside the cell associate with each other to perform their function. Dr. Gingras’ vision is that by freely disseminating the tools created by her laboratory to other research groups and training young researchers, she will enable transformative research to be performed across the world, maximizing the impact of her own research on human health. Her productivity is evidenced by the fact that she has so far published more than 80 papers which have been cited more than 9500 times.

Philip M. Sherman, MD, FRCPC, is Professor of Paediatrics, Microbiology, & Dentistry at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto where he has been on faculty since 1984. Phil completed medical school at the University of Calgary in 1977 and training in pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (1977-1980).

Training in gastroenterology and research was completed at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, DC (1980-1984).
Phil is a Past-President of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and a Past-President of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology. He is the recipient of a Canada Research Chair (tier 1) in Gastrointestinal Disease (2001-2015). His research program is funded by support currently provided by the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). His research interests focus on epithelial cell signal transduction responses to pathogenic, commensal, and probiotic bacteria.
In October 2010, Phil was awarded the prestigious 2010 Shwachman Award from the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN). The award recognizes significant and lifelong scientific or educational contributions to the field of paediatric gastroenterology, and awardees must also hold a record of advocacy for child digestive diseases and demonstrate exemplary service to the field.
Phil assumed the position of Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes in January, 2009.