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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Alexandria Martin
Summer Student

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Deanne Nixie Miao
Lab Technician >
MSc Student

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Emily Allan
Summer Student

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Pratyaksh Singhal
Co-op Student
(co-supervised)

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Samah Ahmed
MSc Student

Alumni

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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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Feryal Ladha
Summer Student >
Undergraduate 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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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

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!

Welcome to Alexandria Martin, Emily Allan and Pratyaksh Singhal, who will be joining the lab as summer students!

Congrats to Alexandria for receiving an NSERC USRA and CHRIM Summer Studentship and Prats for receiving the Stem Cell Network and CHRIM Summer Studentships.

The Drögemöller Lab is grateful to have received a CIHR CLSA Catalyst Grant

Together with co-PI, Galen Wright, we will be using these funds to explore neglected regions of the genome and their link to age-related hearing loss.

Samah and Deanne represent the Drögemöller Lab at ICHG in Cape Town, South Africa!

So proud of these two for presenting our work at the international congress of human genetics. Big congratulations to Samah who received presentation awards at the both the young researchers’ forum and the main conference!

We are sad to say goodbye to Niel after spending a three-month postdoctoral exchange in our lab!

but were happy to see that not even Winnipeg winters can keep a South African away from their braai!

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.