Dr. Changiz Taghibiglou

Dr. Changiz Taghibiglou is an Associate Professor at the Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. He completed his PhD at the Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology (Clinical Biochemistry), University of Toronto, Canada. He has been awarded the Brain Star Award winner 2009 by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) fellowship (CAD 144,000), and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research fellowship (CAD 15,000). His research areas include excitotoxicity-induced neuronal apoptosis in stroke and neurodegenerative diseases, lipid rafts and neuronal receptor signaling and trafficking, lipid neurobiology, brain insulin signaling pathways, designing bioactive short peptides, cellular and molecular mechanisms of traumatic brain injury/concussion, and biomarkers of traumatic brain injury/concussion.