Jerry Vriend, PhD

Accepting graduate students

  • Master's - no
  • PhD - no

Research themes

  • Melatonin: role in regulation of thyroid hormones
  • Ubiquitin proteasome system in cancer

Research summary

Currently I am using publicly available datasets to investigate the role of the ubiquitin proteasome system in cancers. With colleagues I am investigating genes that encode ubiquitin conjugases and ubiquitin ligases related to the proliferation of cancer cells. We are attempting to identify potential therapeutic targets in various cancers, including subtypes of medulloblastoma, ovarian cancer and glioma.

Biography

I was born in the Netherlands in 1946. My family emigrated to Canada and I grew up in northern British Columbia.  My research career began in Edmonton, Alberta, where as part of an MSc Program I did a project on the reproductive effects of environmental lighting on mice.   My research continued in San Antonio, Texas under the supervision of Dr. Russel J. Reiter, an expert on the pineal gland and its product melatonin.  My post-doctoral training was in the  Department of Anatomy and in the Neuroendocrine Unit at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.  In 1981 I accepted a position in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Manitoba, where I taught anatomy and conducted research until the present.

Education

  • PhD University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas (1978)
  • MSc University of Alberta, Edmonton (1972)
  • BA Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1969)

Awards

  • Merit Award for Teaching in the Faculty of Medicine (nominated by Dr. Tom Klonisch) (2008) 
  • Award for Teaching Excellence 4th year Medicine University of Manitoba Teaching Services (2008)

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Human Anatomy and Cell Science
130 Basic Medical Science Building
745 Bannatyne Avenue
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9 Canada

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