Welcome to the Drögemöller Lab

Our lab focuses on using genomics and computational analyses to develop safer and more effective treatments

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Drögemöller Lab

University of Manitoba

About

The Drögemöller Lab uses large-scale genomic and computational analyses to guide the development of novel treatment strategies that offer maximum benefit and minimal harm.

This research is focused specifically on vulnerable and understudied populations (e.g. pediatric and maternal populations) as therapeutic agents are often not designed and tested with these patients in mind.

Interests

  • Genomics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Pharmacogenomics
  • Precision Medicine

Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

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Britt Drögemöller
Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair
in Pharmacogenomics and Precision Medicine

Lab members

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Deanne Nixie Miao
Lab Technician >
MSc Student

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Feryal Ladha
Summer Student >
Undergraduate Student
Genetics Honors Student

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Samah Ahmed
PhD Student

Alumni

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Alexandria Martin
Summer Student

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Avital Kuznecov
Genetics Honors Student

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Bilal Cheema
Genetics Honours Student

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Danielle Johnson
Mitacs-Globalink UK-Canada PhD Exchange Student

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Emily Allan
Summer Student

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Mackenzie Wilke
Summer Student >
MSc Student

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Mary McAuley
Co-op Student

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Niel Olivier
Mitacs-Globalink South Africa-Canada visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Pratyaksh Singhal
Co-op Student
(co-supervised)

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Sarah Lyle
Genetics Honors Student >
Co-op Student >
Lab Technician

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Urim Iyasere
Summer Student

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Vaibhav
Summer Student

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Britt Drögemöller
Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair
in Pharmacogenomics and Precision Medicine

Principal Investigator

Dr. Britt Drögemöller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Medical Genetics at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Drögemöller holds a Canada Research Chair in Pharmacogenomics and Precision Medicine and is appointed as a Research Scientist at The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba (CHRIM), an Adjunct Scientist at the CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute and a Research Affiliate at the Centre on Aging.

Awards:

  • Tier 2 CIHR Canada Research Chair
  • Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow

News

We are sad to say goodbye to Lexi, Emily and Prats after spending the summer in the lab!

It was a pleasure to listen to your final presentations!

Congratulations to Samah for being awarded two Centre on Aging awards!

The Jack MacDonell Scholarship for Research in Aging and Betty Havens Centre on Aging Graduate Fellowship!

Deanne attends the bioinformatics.ca RNAseq and scRNAseq workshops!

Congratulations on receiving a travel award to attend this course!

It's been a busy month for everyone in the lab!

Great to see Samah winning the Big Data Challenge at the VADA Summer School and attending the CIHR-IA Summer Program in Aging, Deanne presenting at the Pharmacogenomics Global Research Network Meeting, Deanne and Avital presenting at the Manitoba Neuroscience Network Meeting, Deanne and Feryal presenting at the Canadian Society for Pharmacology and Therapeutics Meeting, and Feryal presenting at Prairie Cancer Research Consortium Conference!

Samah, Deanne, Feryal and Avital represent the Drögemöller Lab at the first BMG Research Day!

We are so proud of Samah and Feryal for winning the MSc and undergrad categories!

Contact

Dr. Drögemöller is currently recruiting graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with expertise in genomics, bioinformatics, pharmacogenomics and precision medicine. Interested individuals should send a recent CV, along with a short cover letter explaining why they are interested in joining the lab.