June

• Pegah delivered a keynote talk at the Graduate Research Day, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University.

May

• Dorsa (incoming MSc student; visa pending 🤞) has been awarded the Abdul Majid Bader Graduate Scholarship! 🎉

• Zakia has moved to NB to start her co-op training at Irving Personal Care Ltd. Good luck Zakia and will see you next year in the lab!

April

• Pegah attended the Spring 2026 New Investigator Forum (NIF), hosted by CIHR-III in King City, ON.

• Megan was awarded the Faculty of Medicine Summer Student Research Program (SSRP), which will support her research this summer. Congratulations Megan! 🥳

January

• Pegah was awarded a CIHR Institute Community Support (ICS) Travel Award.

December

• The lab was awarded a Dalhousie MRDO/FoM Capital Equipment grant!

November

• Welcome Megan! She is our undergraduate student who will be joining us for the Winter session. 

• Exciting news! Our first undergraduate trainee has joined the lab. Welcome Zakia! She will officially start in January 2026. 

October

• The last part of Pegah's Postdoc project from Prentki Lab has been accepted for publication in BBA – Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids! 

"ABHD6 suppression attenuates pro-inflammatory responses in mice and promotes anti-inflammatory polarization of macrophages during endotoxin stress."

September

• 🎉 Launch of the Poursharifi Lab - Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - Dalhousie University.