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Derrick Gibbings

Derrick Gibbings BSc, MA, PhD

Medicine
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Dr. Gibbings obtained his BSc, Honors at McGill University in Microbiology and Immunology. He subsequently completed a PhD in Experimental Medicine at the University of Alberta focusing on innate immunity receptors in the lab of Dean Befus. In 2006, he joined the laboratory of Olivier Voinnet at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Strasbourg, France to study the biology of microRNA. In 2010, he moved with the laboratory of Olivier Voinnet to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH-Z). He has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at University of Ottawa since August 2012.

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