Faculty of Medicine Translational Medicine Research Rounds
Speakers: Anthony Phillips and Lily Aleksandrova
Title: The Multidisciplinary Alliance for Translational Research and Innovation in Neuropsychiatry (MATRIX-N)
Talk summary: Dr. Anthony Phillips will introduce the UBC Research Excellence Cluster and present some promising lines of research within the cluster, particularly an international multi-disciplinary collaboration on a botanical formulation for opioid withdrawal management. Dr. Lily Aleksandrova will discuss another MATRIX-N project: neuroplasticity as a convergent mechanism for rapid-acting antidepressants, ketamine and classical psychedelics.
Dr. Anthony Phillips
Speaker:
Anthony Phillips, PhD, MATRIX-N Research Excellence Cluster lead; Professor, UBC Psychiatry, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH); Head of Translational Medicine for Substance Use Disorders Lab; Founder and CEO, Resilience Biosciences; Former Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction
Dr. Lily Aleksandrova
Speaker: Lily Aleksandrova, PhD, MATRIX-N Research Excellence Cluster coordinator; Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC Psychiatry, DM Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH); Translational Medicine for Substance Use Disorders Lab; Government Liaison, Research Development and Compliance Officer, Resilience Biosciences.
To register for the event, please contact us at translational.medicine@ubc.ca