Western Schulich MD/PhD
@Western_MDPhD
Official account of the MD/PhD program at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University 🩺💜🔬
We are thrilled to launch @SchulichMedDent’s first MD/PhD Program Twitter account! Follow us for exciting updates about our program and current students👩🔬👨⚕️

Congratulations @Shengjiey1 (PIs Dr. Jun Li & Dr. Anthony Nichols @nicholslab1) for being the first Canadian to win the Casselberry Award for best paper at the American Laryngology Association Meeting! Amazing research being conducted by this team!


Outside of medicine, our trainees are involved in many hobbies & personal interests! @_aayushijoshi, @teijamackenzie & Amelia Yuan are running this May with Schulich Meds & raising funds for Children’s Hospital @LHSCCanada @SchulichMedDent Go support them!
Engaging oral presentation by @carlamaduta at London Health Research Day!

Our @SchulichMedDent MD/PhD trainees presented their research at London Health Research Day yesterday. Topics ranged from neuroscience, endocrinology, clinical & translational medicine, ophthalmology, microbiology & immunology! 📊🔬🧫




Appreciation post for @teijamackenzie & @_aayushijoshi for being our social media managers & continuing to help build our MD/PhD community at Schulich this year! Here they are at last year’s @CITAC_ACCFC agm 🌞🏔️

Congratulations to 2 of our graduating students 🩺 Siobhan LeSarge matched into Family Medicine at Regional West (we’re lucky to keep you in london 💜🐎) Nick Tonial matched into Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at University of Calgary (good luck w/ the move out west 🤠⛰️)



Photos from our year-end wrap party 🎉 Huge thanks go out to Dr. Khanna our director & Kelly our program assistant for their ongoing support & leadership in the improvements made to the program! Shout-out to our alum Dr. Cecchini @Path_Matt on a fun talk about all things AI 🤖




Here is Isis in action @CITAC_ACCFC @CSCI_SCRC presenting on ‘Neurodevelopmental effects of genetic frontotemporal dementia: intracranial volume and education differences’

Great work @peteryufanzeng! 🫁
1/🚨 Proud to share TWO back-to-back papers unraveling the pathogenesis of idiopathic subglottic stenosis (iSGS) using multi-omics approaches published today @eBioMedicine @nicholslab1 @RJunLinMD as part of the Canadian Airways Research Group Let's break it down🧵👇 #MedTwitter
Congrats to our student lead @teijamackenzie on her recent publication! Excited to see how this work evolves as part of her PhD research. 🧠🧬🥼🩺 @westernuBiochem @SchulichMedDent @MolTherapy
Excited to share our new paper, "Glutamine missense suppressor transfer RNAs inhibit polyglutamine aggregation," published in @MolTherapy_NA! Grateful to be included in this work — a great way to close out 2024 and the first semester of my PhD! cell.com/molecular-ther…
🦠Check out this exciting work on early sepsis detection from our new student @rasaeskandari !🩸
Excited to share our new paper, "Glutamine missense suppressor transfer RNAs inhibit polyglutamine aggregation," published in @MolTherapy_NA! Grateful to be included in this work — a great way to close out 2024 and the first semester of my PhD! cell.com/molecular-ther…
One of our students @peteryufanzeng presenting in Hong Kong!
A true pleasure to present our latest work on subglottic stenoses at #APSR24 in the beautiful HK 😍 Stay tuned for more coming 👀
One of our Vanier Scholars @edwardwang_ was featured in this article by Schulich. Check out his research below!
Vanier Scholar and #SchulichMedDent student Edward Wang's research is using AI to improve treatment planning for a special type of radiation called stereotactic radiotherapy, which can target multiple spots in the lungs. Read about his research story ⤵️ brnw.ch/21wNwPQ
Amazing work from one of our students who presented recently in the US! Congrats @carlamaduta
MD-PhD Student Carla Madura from the @Superantigens lab @SchulichMedDent gave a great talk on Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome toxin regulation at International Conference on Gram Positive Pathogens in Omaha Nebraska!
Last month at our social we celebrated our students who defended their PhDs & are starting clinical clerkship rotations 🏥 (@peteryufanzeng & Peter V.D.) or entering pre-clerkship medical training 📚(Alice)! Congrats to you 3 for achieving another milestone in this program!

Last month our incredible student @peteryufanzeng defended his PhD. Congratulations Dr. Zeng! We hope you are enjoying your final months before starting clerkship! 💜🩺⚕️📓📈@nicholslab1

