Principal Investigator
Dr. Mike (Przemyslaw) Sapieha is the director of the Neurovascular Eye Disease Lab at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre and holds the Wolfe Professorship in translational vision research and a Canada Research Chair in retinal cell biology. He is a professor in the departments of Ophthalmology and Biochemistry at the University of Montreal and an adjunct professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University.
Mike Sapieha obtained his PhD in neuroscience and cell biology in 2005 at the University of Montreal. He subsequently pursued two postdoctoral fellowships: one in pharmacology at McGill University and the second in ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. In 2010 he returned to Montreal and founded his laboratory. In 2018, he was elected a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada.
email: mike.sapieha@umontreal.ca
Lab Staff
Ph.D. – Medical Biology, Medical University of Lodz
Postdoc 1- INSERM U982, University of Rouen
Postdoc 3- University of Montreal
- Ariel Wilson PhD: Research Associate
B.Sc. – Biology, McGill University
M.Sc. – Cell and molecular medicine, University of Ottawa
Ph.D. – Pathology and Cell Biology, University of Montreal
Postdoc- École Polytechnique de Montréal
B.Sc.- Biochemistry and molecular medicine University of Montreal.
DEC- Biotechnology, Collège Ahuntsic, Montreal
DEC- Biotechnology, Collège Ahuntsic, Montreal
Postdoctoral Fellows
B.Sc.- Science and Technology, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6
Ph.D.- Physiology and therapeutics, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6
B.Sc. – Biology, IE University, Spain
M.Sc. – Genetics and Cell Biology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Ph.D. – Bio-medicine, Charité Universtätsmedizin, Berlin
Interesting Facts:
-I like cellular senescence and popcorn.
M.D.- Kyoto University School of Medicine
Ph.D. – Medical Science, Ophthalmology, Kyoto University, Japan
PhD Students
B.Sc.- Biochemistry and molecular medicine University of Montreal.
B.Sc.- Medicine. University of Amsterdam.
B.Sc.- Biochemistry and molecular medicine University of Montreal.
B.Sc.- Biomedical Sciences
Dalhousie University.
Industrial partnership
M.Sc. – Biomedical sciences, University of Montreal .
Interesting facts:
– I like to play drums and ride my bike.
– My favorite color is blue.
Lab Alumni:
Past postdocs
- Malika Oubaha, PhD. Current: Professor University of Québec in Montreal
- Zhuo Shao MD, PhD. Current: Medical Geneticist. U of Toronto.
- Nicholas Tetrault, PhD. Current: Scientific director at Biron Inc.
- Flavio Rezende, MD PhD. Current: Head of Medical Retina, U of Montreal
- Agnieszka Dejda PhD. Current: Lab Manager
- Khalil Miloudi PhD.
- Francois Binet PhD. Current: Senior Scientist SemaThera Inc.
Past graduate students:
- Catherine Menard. Current: Postdoc in Rudd Lab.
- Agustin Cerani. Current: PhD candidate in epidemiology, McGill.
- Nick Sitaras, PhD (Co-supervised with S. Chemtob) Current: Product Development Manager at MONTANA
Past Undergrads:
- 2019- Laura Blais
- 2017- Sabrina Evans
- 2017- Kevin Lanthier
- 2017- Remi Laflamme
- 2017- Anthony Evans
- 2016- Valerie Paquin
- 2016- Lilianne Morin
- 2015– Vera Guber
- 2015- Carl Atiyeh
- 2013- Sarah Geunest
- 2012- Felix Beaudoin
- 2011 Ihab El Kandil
- 2010– Sophie Tremblay
