Dr. GPCR Podcast

Dr. Terry Hébert is a Professor within the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics at McGill University. Much of his work is based around GPCR signaling in context to cardiovascular diseases. In this special episode of the Dr. GPCR podcast, we re-connected with Dr. Terry Hebert to chat about how he and his team has been adapting to the new reality of working remotely.  Terry tells us ab...

Dr. Graciela Pineyro’s love for GPCR pharmacology started in Uruguay where she first worked on the serotonin receptors. This interest in research and pharmacology took Graciela to Canada where she stayed ever since she arrived for her Ph. D. work. Graciela has done extensive work on the molecular pharmacology of opioid receptors, exploring their signaling, trafficking, and their ability to activat...

Have you had moments that defined your scientific tastes? For Dr. J Silvio Gutkind, a class on oncogenes and his interests for GPCRs helped shape his scientific interests. These took him from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina to UC San Diego and through the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In this episode, Silvio discusses G protein signaling in the context of cancer,...

Dr. Terry Hebert wanted to be a microbiologist. Instead, he ended up getting interested in membrane protein as he followed the biology of a bacterial toxin that affects a mammalian ion channel. Today he and his team are working on understanding receptor signaling in specialized cellular environments to gain a better grasp of receptor function in pathophysiological settings with a special interest...

In 1975, Dr. Paul Insel was at the FASEB experimental biology meeting in Atlantic City. During dinner with colleagues and Alfred Gillman, co-recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of G-proteins and their role in signal transduction in cells, Paul was designated to go to Gillman’s lab. That summer, he used radioligand binding methods to dissect receptor func...

In this Episode 0 of the podcast, I, Dr. Yamina Bechiche, your host, and founder of DrGPCR introduce you to the very first podcast dedicated to GPCR researchers and their work.  This podcast is part of the Dr. GPCR Ecosystem.  The goal is to bring us together GPCR scientists, biotech, and pharma leaders as well as suppliers working on GPCRs. We want to provide opportunities to connect, s...