Biochemistry

Boris Steipe

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Genetics

Areas of Expertise

• Bioinformatics
• Computational biology
• Molecular biology
• Protein engineering

Office: 416-946-7741
Home: 416-534-7803
Languages: German
Email: boris.steipe@utoronto.ca
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Christopher Yip

Dean, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, the Department of Biochemistry and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Biochemistry
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
• Centres
  • Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME)

Areas of Expertise

• Biophysics
• Microscopy
• Molecular self-assembly
• Protein-protein interactions

Office: 416-978-7853
Home: 416-544-0452
Email: christopher.yip@utoronto.ca
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Emil Pai

Professor Emeritus

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Biochemistry

Areas of Expertise

• Enzymes – nature’s catalysts
• Structural Biology
• Structure and function of proteins
• X-ray crystallography

Office: 416-978-7015
Languages: German
Email: emil.pai@utoronto.ca
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Jason Maynes

Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine.

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
  • Biochemistry

Areas of Expertise

• Anesthesia toxicity
• Drug design
• Heart failure
• Protein structure and function

Office: 416-813-5934
Website
Email: jason.maynes@sickkids.ca
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Julie Forman-Kay

Senior Scientist and Program Head, Molecular Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children

Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Biochemistry

Areas of Expertise

• Biomolecular condensates
• Intrinsically disordered proteins
• Membrane-less organelles
• Protein and RNA phase separation

Office: 416-813-5358
Home: 416-486-3812
Email: forman@sickkids.ca
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Khosrow Adeli

Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Biochemistry
  • Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology

Areas of Expertise

• Biomarkers of pediatric disease
• Cholesterol
• Diabetes
• Insulin resistance
• Laboratory biomarkers of pediatric disease
• Laboratory medicine and clinical laboratory investigations
• Lipids and lipoproteins
• Normal values/reference intervals for laboratory tests in children and adolescents
• Obesity studies in animal models
• Pediatric laboratory medicine
• Role of nutrition in obesity and Diabetes (e.g. high fructose diets)

Office: 416-813-8682
Mobile: 416-918-2280
Languages: Persian
Email: k.adeli@utoronto.ca
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Stephane Angers

Professor and Director, The Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Biochemistry
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Centres
  • Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research

Areas of Expertise

• Biochemistry
• Pharmaceutical science

Office: 416-978-4939
Languages: French
Website
Email: stephane.angers@utoronto.ca
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Walid Houry

Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Biochemistry
  • Chemistry

Areas of Expertise

• Bioinformatics
• Biophysics
• Molecular chaperones
• Protein degradation
• Protein folding
• Proteomics

Office: 416-946-7141
Mobile: 416- 841-1205
Languages: Arabic
Website
Email: walid.houry@utoronto.ca
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