个人简介

Dr. Jasmin obtained his PhD in 1988 from the Université de Montréal. Following postdoctoral training in Paris, France (1988-90), he worked as a Research Associate at the University of Miami School of Medicine for an additional two years. Throughout his training, Dr. Jasmin has focused his work on cellular and molecular neurobiology. Dr. Jasmin was recruited as an Assistant Professor in 1992 by the Department of Physiology. He quickly moved through the ranks and was promoted to Full Professor in 2000. In 1999, as co-Director, he created the University of Ottawa Centre for Neuromuscular Disease. From 2002-2009, Dr. Jasmin was Chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. In the spring of 2009, he was appointed Vice-Dean, Research for the Faculty of Medicine. While assuming various leadership and administrative responsibilities, Dr. Jasmin has maintained a vigorous and internationally-recognized research program that focuses on deciphering the regulatory pathways that control expression of synaptic proteins in both neuronal and skeletal muscle cells. In this work, the emphasis has been on defining the physiopathology of various neuromuscular disorders and neurological conditions as well as on identifying and rationally-designing novel therapeutics for these diseases; questions that are most relevant to human health. Over the course of his career, Dr. Jasmin has published more than 125 scientific articles and book chapters, mostly as Principal Investigator. The excellence of his work has not only been recognized by several awards, including CIHR New Investigator, CIHR Investigator, CIHR/IMHA Quality of Life Award, and Researcher of the Year from Muscular Dystrophy Canada (Ontario Chapter) but, in addition, by invitations to present at prestigious meetings and institutions around the world. Dr. Jasmin’s research program has consistently been well funded with numerous grants from the CIHR, the Muscular Dystrophy Association (USA), l’Association Française contre les Myopathies, Muscular Dystrophy Canada, the Canadian Space Agency and, more recently, the Heart and Stroke Foundation Centre for Stroke Recovery and the Cancer Research Society. As Vice-Dean of Research, Dr. Jasmin has completely revamped the Research Office of the Faculty to meet the ever increasing demands and needs of the diverse research community. Dr. Jasmin has been instrumental in the dramatic increase in research intensity of the Faculty of Medicine while concomitantly playing key roles in the establishment of several broad-based strategic initiatives including the Brain and Mind Research Institute, the Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, multiple core facilities, and creation of a joint HR recruitment plan with affiliated research institute partners. Dr. Jasmin has been a member or Chair of multiple grant panels in Canada and the US over the years. He is also currently a member of several Boards of Directors at affiliated research institutes/hospitals in the city. Moreover, Dr. Jasmin has led the establishment of several international partnerships in neuromuscular/neuroscience research, notably, with the Université Paris-Descartes and the Université de Lyon. As part of his objectives as a member of tthe Leadership Team, Dr. Jasmin has recently assumed greater responsibilities outside the Faculty by chairing, for example, a task force made up of all Vice-Deans of Research across the University of Ottawa to examine institutional models of research management, and a revitalized Research Committee at the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada.