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Jacqueline Beaudry, n/a (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Jacqueline Beaudry is an Assistant Professor in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine in the department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, Canada since July 2020. She received her PhD from the department of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University in Toronto, Canada in September 2013 under the supervision of Dr. Michael Riddell. Dr. Beaudry was the recipient of the 2014 Governor General’s Medal for her PhD thesis on the role of stress hormones and high fat diet on diabetes development in rats.

Following her PhD, she joined Dr. Daniel Drucker’s laboratory at the Lunenfeld-Tannenbaum Research Centre at Sinai Health Systems in Toronto, Canada. She was the recipient of the Diabetes Canada post-doctoral Researchship in 2014. During her time in the Drucker lab, Dr. Beaudry studied the physiological role of gut- and pancreatic-derived hormone receptors on white and brown adipose tissue function. Her work can be found in journals such as Molecular Metabolism, Cell Metabolism, Endocrinology, Journal of Endocrinology, and Nature Metabolism that have built a foundational platform for her research today.

Dr. Beaudry’s lab focuses on trying to better understand how the body regulates energy homeostasis under hormonal stimuli, and energy demanding conditions and how abnormalities in these processes can lead to obesity and chronic disease development such as insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and type 2 diabetes. Her lab uses in vitro and in vivo tissue specific knockout mouse models to study how pancreatic, gut-derived and stress hormones regulate adipose tissue function and the effects this may have on other peripheral tissues regulating whole body energy metabolism. To date, Dr. Beaudry has received early career awards, national and local funding grants from NSERC, CIHR, and the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre. She is an Associate Editorial Board member for the Endocrine Society journal, Endocrinology and an executive member of the highly successful virtual Adipose Biology Seminar Series that takes place on the last Tuesday of every month. She is now co-organizing an in-person meeting on August 19-20th, 2025 in Montreal called, “Adipose Biology Conference-Fat Matters” with leaders in the field of adipose biology.

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