Principal Investigator
Cellular and Regenerative Medicine Centre
Glen Tibbits completed his bachelor’s degree at McGill University and subsequently pursued graduate studies at UCLA. During these studies, he developed a profound curiosity about the electrical and contractile properties of the heart and completed his MSc and Ph.D. at the Brain Research Institute at UCLA. With an American Heart Association Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PDF), he studied cardiac pharmacology in Niigata, Japan in year one and cardiac biophysics at the UCLA School of Medicine in year two. He subsequently was appointed an Assistant Research Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at UCLA and then moved to Seattle, WA to become Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. When a faculty position opened at Simon Fraser University, he chose to return to Canada after an absence of 15 years. At SFU he was appointed as full Professor in 1992 and a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Cardiac Physiology from 2004 to 2018. The latter allowed him to start building a research program incorporating the use of human-induced pluripotent stem cells differentiated into cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) to understand better inherited cardiac arrhythmias and cardiomyopathies over a decade ago. He is currently the Co-director of the Cellular and Regenerative Medicine Centre (CRMC) at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute which is a state-of-the-art facility for generating and phenotyping hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes and pancreatic β cells.
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Saturday, October 28, 2023
16:35 – 16:55 EST