Welcome to the Drögemöller Lab
Our lab focuses on using genomics and computational analyses to develop safer and more effective treatments
Welcome to the Drögemöller Lab
Our lab focuses on using genomics and computational analyses to develop safer and more effective treatments
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.
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) and an Adjunct Scientist at the CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute.
MacKenzie Wilke is a MSc student in the Department of Biochemistry & Medical Genetics at the University of Manitoba. MacKenzie has graduated with her BSc (Hons) in Genetics from the University of Manitoba in 2020. She completed an undergraduate thesis on identifying genes associated with autism spectrum disorder through Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium and her MSc project will focus on developing a polygenic risk score in order to aid with the prediction and prevention of cisplatin-induced ototoxicity.
MSc in Computational Biology, 2020-2022
University of Manitoba, Canada
BSc Hons in Genetics, 2015-2020
University of Manitoba, Canada
Samah Ahmed is a MSc student in the Department of Biochemistry & Medical Genetics at the University of Manitoba. Samah has graduated with her B.Pharm from the University of Khartoum in 2010. Her MSc project will focus on identifying genetic variants and genes involved in pathways underlying hearing through GWAS and scRNAseq analyses.
MSc in Computational Biology, 2021 - 2023
University of Manitoba, Canada
MSc in Molecular Medicine, 2012 - 2014
University of Khartoum, Sudan
B.Pharm, 2005-2010
University of Khartoum, Sudan
Deanne Nixie Miao graduated with a BSc Honors in Genetics at the University of Manitoba. She completed an undergraduate thesis on characterizing the development of bones in hyaluronidase-2 KO and CON mouse embryos. She is currently a Lab Technician in the Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics in Dr. Triggs-Raine’s and Dr. Drögemöller’s lab.
BSc Hons Co-op in Genetics, 2016-2021
University of Manitoba, Canada
Feryal Ladha is an undergraduate student at the University of Manitoba pursuing a BSc in Genetics. Her project will focus on the development of polygenic risk scores to predict cisplatin-induced tinnitus.
BSc in Genetics, 2020-2024
University of Manitoba, Canada
They did an awesome job presenting on how polygenic risk scores can be used to predict chemotherapy-related adverse drug reactions!
It was great to give a keynote presentation and have dinner with some of the trainees!
Great to see them presenting at their first in person conference!
Great to see Deanne attend the Jax hearing workshop and spend a week with Drs. Alain Dabdoub and Emilia Luca at Sunnybrook Research Institute. Congrats for receiving funding from the NIH to attend the Jax course!
Avital will be looking into the genetics of hidden hearing loss
We wish you all the best for the future! It was great to celebrate together one more time!
These funds will be used to support work aimed at understanding the genomics of age-related hearing impairment through the use of automated phenotyping strategies and single cell RNA sequencing.
