John Dewan Prize
Dr. Arthur Petronis is the 2013 recipient of the the John Dewan Prize from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation. About the Prize: The John Dewan Prize was established in honour of Dr. John Dewan who held the position of executive consultant to the Foundation from 1964 to 1974. The prize is intended to recognize an outstanding researcher whose work has been, or is presently, supported by the Foundation. The decision of the Foundation shall be based upon an assessment of the originality and uniqueness of either laboratory or clinical research and the contribution to significant new knowledge...
Read MoreSelected Invited Lectures: 2013
Department of Biology. University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus. Feb 15, 2013 13th Annual Toronto Psychopharmacology Update. Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto,Toronto. March 2, 2013 The Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania. March 12, 2013 Neuropsychiatry and Inflammation: epigenetic target discovery beyond oncology. 3rd Oxford Symposium on Epigenetic Mechanisms in Health and Disease. University of Oxford, UK. March 14-15, 2013. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Bethesda, MD, USA. March 29,...
Read MoreSelected Invited Lectures: 2012
The University Program in Genetics and Genomics (UPGG). Duke University, NC, USA. March 13, 2012. Epigenetics: Bench to Bedside. European Union COST program. Riga, Latvia. April 26-27, 2012 (keynote speaker). Institute of Biotechnology and Vilnius University. EU Mobilis program. Vilnius, Lithuania. May 3, 2012. 16th International Congress on Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders. Dublin, Ireland. June 17-21, 2012. Epigenetic regulation: from mechanism to intervention. MRC Clinical Sciences Centre. London, UK. June 20-22, 2012. Institute of Psychiatry. King’s College London. London UK....
Read MoreSelected Invited Lectures: 2011
Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility. Keystone conference. North Carolina USA Mar 27-Apr 1, 2011 Hospital for Sick Children. Genetics and Genomics Retreat. Toronto. April 14, 2011 1st Canadian Conference on Epigenetics. London, Ontario. May 4-7, 2011. The relevance of epigenetics to brain disorders. A Tribute to Dr. Erminio Costa. University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine. Chicago IL USA. May 4-5, 2011 Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania. June 6, 2011. Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Research on...
Read MoreSelected Invited Lectures: 2010
University of British Columbia, Brain Research Institute, Vancouver BC, Canada. January 15, 2010. International Human Epigenome Consortium. Paris, France. January 25-26, 2010. Affymetrix, Santa Clara, California, USA. February 17, 2010. The 8th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Broad Foundation. Los Angeles, California, USA. February 18, 2010. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. March 23, 2010. CIHR workshop Epigenetics, Environment and Health. Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, Canada. April 7-9, 2010. Third Annual Canadian Human Genetics Meeting. Saint‐Sauveur, Québec,Canada.April...
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The goal and motivation for Dr. Liu's research is to discover a new treatment for human brain disease that is translated into an actual drug. It is a simple goal but of course very challenging to achieve.
