Current Members

Dr. Carolyn Cummins

B.Sc. Chemistry (McGill University 1997)
Ph.D. Pharmaceutical Chemistry (UCSF 2002)
PDF Pharmacology (HHMI, UT Southwestern 2007)

Dr. Cummins obtained her undergraduate degree from McGill University in Chemistry with a focus on biological and analytical chemistry.

In 2002, she completed her Ph.D. under the guidance of Dr. Leslie Z. Benet at the University of California San Francisco in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Her studies focused on the interplay between P450s and drug transporters in intestinal drug metabolism.

She then took a Howard Hughes Medical Institute postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. David Mangelsdorf at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. There, Dr. Cummins used her expertise in P450s and analytical chemistry to help identify the first ligand for a nuclear receptor in C.elegans. At the same time, she identified a role for the liver X receptor alpha in modulating stress hormone production.

Currently, she continues to explore the roles of the liver X receptors and the glucocorticoid receptor in the context of cholesterol homeostasis and diabetes.

Julie Huynh

4th year Pharmaceutical Chemistry (University of Toronto)
PHC489 Student 2019

Florian Le Billan

B.Sc. Biology (Université Paris Sud (Paris XI))
M.S. Endocrinology (Université Paris Sud (Paris XI))
Ph.D., Endocrinology (INSERM, UMR-S1185 Faculty of Medicine, University Paris Saclay 2017)

Jia-Xu Li

B.Sc., Pharmacology and Toxicology (University of Toronto 2016)

Rachel Leung

B.Sc., Biology (Ryerson University 2019)

Jenna-Rose Melanson

B.Sc., Biochemistry (Mount Allison University, 2017)
2nd Year Pharm D. Student
Cummins Lab Summer 2019
Work-study 2019-2020

Stuart Morgan

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow (2017-2020)
B.Sc. Biochemistry (University of Birmingham 2005)
Ph.D., School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (University of Birmingham 2010)