Pharmacology Graduate Students Association (PGSA)

Welcome! We are the Pharmacology Graduate Students’ Association (PGSA). We are a student-run association that organizes philanthropic, research-related, and social events throughout the year. Our events are a great way to connect with graduate students and faculty within the department.

Events

We host a number of events each year including our annual Pharmacology BBQ, student-faculty softball game, student-faculty debate, philanthropic drives and the Visions in Pharmacology (VIP) annual research day. We also organize pub nights, games nights, escape room excursions, tickets to sports games, and other events.

Visions in Pharmacology (VIP)

VIP is our largest event, which features a keynote speech from a prominent pharmacologist and gives students the opportunity to present their work to the department, with awards to the best presentations. Please see our list of past VIP keynote speakers:

1995 John Polanyi
1996 Daniel Nebert
1997 Lee Limbird
1998 Frank Gonzalez
1999 Ferid Murad
2000 Marc Caron
2001 Karen Duff
2002 Ronald Estabrook
2003 Donald Ingram
2004 Etienne-Emile Baulieu
2005 Lee Limbird
2006 Richard Weinshilboum
2007 Edward Morgan
2008 Michael Salter
2009 Christopher Bradfield
2010 Sue Piper Duckles
2011 Richard Aster
2012 Roger Sunahara
2013 Henry Kranzler
2014 J. Steven Leeder
2015 Linda Dwoskin
2016 Terry Kenakin
2017 Peter Van Loo
2018 Edyth London
2019 Laura Bohn
2020 Aled Edwards

2020-2021 PGSA Executive

Co-Presidents: Alison Jee and Haidy Giratallah
VP Academic: Setayesh Yazdani
VP Finance: Kathy Lee
VP Social: Keyue Chen
Director of Philanthropy: Sasha Marakhovskaia
Director of External: Daniel Lee
Director of Internal: Alaa Alsaafin

GSU Rep: Farhana Islam
GEC Rep: Jonathan Chow
Social Reps: Martino Gabra, Erin Sellars
First year rep, ACP: Edward Ellazar
First year rep, thesis: Evianne Rovers
Site Rep, MSB: Alec Langlois
Site rep, Sunnybrook: Ella Bing Xin Song
Site rep, CAMH: Alexandra Malinowski
Site rep, Mount Sinai: Ambuja Banerjee

Contact us

If you have any questions about PGSA or about the graduate Pharmacology program, please contact us on Facebook or by email.

Website: https://pgsa.sa.utoronto.ca/

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Email: pgsa.toronto@gmail.com