Cardiovascular Inflammation
Professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair
Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences
Address: Queen's University
Botterell Hall, Room 433
Kingston, ON K7L3N6
Telephone: (613) 533-3242
Email: funkc@queensu.ca
Lab Website: The Funk Laboratory
Degrees:
Sept. 1985 McGill University, Ph.D., Department of Medicine, Montreal, Canada
Ph.D. Thesis: The Metabolism of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids by Vascular Tissue
Postgraduate Training:
1986-1988 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Topic: The molecular biology of enzymes involved in leukotriene biosynthesis.
Recent Awards and Honors:
2004-2011 Canada Research Chair in Molecular, Cellular and Physiological Medicine (renewed 2011-2018) ; Canadian Foundation for Innovation Grant
2006-2013 Career Investigator, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
2007 Leaders Opportunity Fund Award, Canadian Foundation for Innovation
2008-2010 Killam Research Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts
Research Interests: Mechanisms of cardiovascular inflammation and disease (atherosclerosis, abdominal aortic aneurysm, thrombosis). Read more...
