DUSICA MAYSINGER, Ph.D
CURRICULUM VITAE

Address
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
McGill University
McIntyre Medical Science Building, Rm. 1314
3655 Promenade Sir William Osler
Montréal, Québec, Canada H3G 1Y6
Telephone: (514) 398-1264
Fax: (514) 398-6690
E-mail: dusica.maysinger@mcgill.ca

Academic Appointments (last 5 years)
1977-84 Assistant Professor, University of Zagreb
1981-82 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Neurochemistry, Munchen, Germany
1983 Research associate, Oxford University
1987-92 Assistant professor, McGill University
1992-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University
2007- Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University

Honors and Awards
1967 Indian Embassy, Literary Award for assays
1971 Rector's Prize, Univ. Zagreb
1974-76 Fullbright's Fellowship
1978 Norvegian Academy of Science Fellowship
1980 Polish Academy of Science
1981 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (opioid peptides in human brain, role of dynorphin)
1982 European Training Program in Brain Research Fellowship
1988 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
1991, 94 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship Renewals
1997 British Council Travel Award (for Cambridge; cell death)
1996 FRSQ Burse de Perfectionement, (for Univ. Michigan, and Signal Transduction Laboratory, Parke-Davis, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1996 MRC Visiting scientist award (Canada-Italy academic exchange; cell biology)
1999 Woman of the Year, ICA
2000 British Council Travel Award (for Nottingham-polymer sciences)
2001 Travel award for the establishment of International link and recruitment of students from the University of Zagreb, (Ottawa, PTP program

Societies Memberships
Society for Neuroscience
Canadian Society for Neuroscience
American Chemical Association

Current Grant Support
JDF: The role of micro-environment in the maintenance of islet cell survival
during islet isolation; (co-investigator with Dr. L Rosenberg).
MRC/CIHR: Regulatory mechanisms in islet cell survival and differentiation;
(co-applicant with Dr. Rosenberg, Surgery, McGill)
NSERC strategic: Cellular internalization and in vitro/in vivo fate of biodegradable block copolymer micelles;(co-applicant with Dr. Eisenberg, Chemistry, McGill)
JDRF Center - Self assembly drug delivery systems