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Moshe Szyf

Academic title(s): 

Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Moshe Szyf
Contact Information
Address: 

McIntyre Medical聽Sciences Building
3655 Prom. Sir-William-Osler
Room 1309/1310
Montreal, QC, H3G 1Y6

Email address: 
moshe.szyf [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 
514-398-4400 ext. 00595
Department: 
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Area(s): 
Epigenetics
Current research: 

Szyf received his Ph. D from the Hebrew University and did his postdoctoral fellowship in Genetics at Harvard Medical School, joined the department in 1989 and currently holds a James 91社区 Professorship and GlaxoSmithKline-CIHR Chair in Pharmacology. He is the founding co-director of the Sackler Institute for Epigenetics and Psychobiology at 91社区 and is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Experience-based Brain and Biological Development program. 聽Szyf has been the founder of the first 鈥淧harma鈥� to develop epigenetic pharmacology 鈥淢ethylgene Inc.鈥� and the first journal in epigenetics 鈥淓pigenetics鈥�.聽 Szyf lab has proposed two decades ago that DNA methylation is a prime therapeutic target in cancer and other diseases and has postulated and provided the first set of evidence that the 鈥渟ocial environment鈥� early in life can alter DNA methylation launching the emerging field of 鈥渟ocial epigenetics鈥�.

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