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Robert Rizk
MSc student |
I completed my Bachelor of Science at McGill with a major in Pharmacology. I was enrolled in this program due to my interest in learning and understanding the methods and strategies used in developing new therapies. My research journey started at the Goodman Cancer Institute at McGill as an intern where I worked on developing CRISPR-based strategies to study mRNA regulation of RNA binding proteins. Later, for my undergraduate thesis, I worked on understanding the mechanisms behind psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in the Hébert lab in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. I will now be returning to the Hébert lab to pursue graduate studies where I will be working on characterizing the role of various potassium channel tetramerization domain (KCTD) proteins in regulating G protein α and βγ subunits. and the role it plays in controlling the assembly or function of asymmetric GPCR signaling complexes.
