Rashmi Kothary, Ph.D

Affiliations:

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Area:

Muscle and nervous system integrity, pathology of neuromuscular diseases

Website:

http://www.ohri.ca/profiles/kothary.asp

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Dr. Kothary is an Associate Director and Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He was originally fascinated by physics, but his interests shifted towards biology, biochemistry, embryology and ultimately neuromuscular disorders. Dr. Kothary received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of British Columbia and pursued postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Dr. Janet Rossant at the Mount Sinai Hospital Research Institute in Toronto and in the laboratory of Dr. Azim Surani in Cambridge, U.K. It was during these formative years that Dr. Kothary developed his interests in the use of transgenic mice to model disease pathology. Dr. Kothary returned to Canada to begin his independent research career at the Institut du cancer de Montréal. In 1998, Dr. Kothary joined the OHRI as a Senior Scientist. He holds the University Health Research Chair in Neuromuscular Disorders and is a Professor at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Kothary's laboratory is funded by research grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Muscular Dystrophy Association (USA), Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada. His current research focuses on studying the fundamental role of a cytoskeletal linker protein important for intracellular trafficking, investigating signal transduction pathways important for oligodendrocyte mediated myelination and remyelination of the CNS, and understanding Spinal Muscular Atrophy pathogenesis and identifying novel therapeutics for this devastating children's disease.
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