Dr. Maureen O'Connor-McCourt - Biography

Dr. Maureen O'Connor-McCourt
Tel.: (514) 496-6382
Fax: (514) 496-5143
E-mail: maureen.o'connor@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca

Dr. Maureen O'Connor-McCourt has been a Senior Research Officer and Group Leader of the Receptor, Signalling and Proteomics laboratory at the BRI since 1996. She joined the NRC as an Assistant Research Officer at the Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI) in 1987, where she became an Associate Research Officer in 1989. Dr. O'Connor-McCourt received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Alberta in 1981. Following a three-year period of postdoctoral training with Dr. M. D. Hollenberg at the University of Calgary, she was a visiting fellow with Dr. Michael Sporn, Laboratory of Chemoprevention, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, in 1986. She is currently an adjunct professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Anatomy and Cell Biology at McGill University. She has been a member of Protein Engineering Network Centres of Excellence (PENCE) Montreal, Canada, since 1990, as the Chairman from 1994 to 1996 and was a member of the Training and Education Committees from 1990 to 1994. Her research focuses on the identification and study of protein-protein interactions in growth-mediated tumorigenesis, development of anti-cancer drugs and therapy, as well as imaging and non-imaging diagnostics. Her laboratory has patented the software program SPRevolution, crucial for biosensor analysis. Dr. O'Connor-McCourt has published over 60 scientific papers. She also reviews manuscripts for a number of journals and evaluates grant applications for the CIHR and FRSQ, and is an external thesis committee member for the University of Toronto, the University of Ottawa and McGill University.

To know more about the Receptor, Signalling and Proteomics Group research activities, please visit the Receptor, Signalling and Proteomics Group section on the NRC-BRI web site.