Dr. Xianping Dong, PhD

Appointments: Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics Affiliations: Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine Research Interests: ion channel and transporters, calcium signalling, autophagy, lysosomes, lysosomal storage disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, bacterial infection. My primary research interests include lysosome physiology and lysosome-related diseases. Specifically, we study lysosomal ion channels and transporters in cancer progression, lysosomal storage … Read more

Dr. Thomas Pulinilkunnil, PhD

Appointments: Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick Affiliations: Adjunct Professor, University of New Brunswick Research Interests: Energy metabolism, proteotoxicity, autophagy, lysosome, fatty acids, cardiotoxicity, Breast Cancer, Anti-cancer drugs Lysosomal autophagy and proteotoxicity in cancer biology and therapeutics Role of energy metabolism in cancer pathology Pathophysiology of anti-cancer … Read more