Associate Professor
Carleton University
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Jenny Bruin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology and Institute of Biochemistry at Carleton University. She completed her BSc in Biomedical Toxicology at the University of Guelph in 2005 and her PhD in Medical Sciences at McMaster University with Dr. Alison Holloway in 2009. Her doctoral thesis investigated the effects of fetal and neonatal nicotine exposure on pancreas development and long-term metabolic outcomes in a rat model. From 2010 to 2016, Dr. Bruin was a postdoctoral fellow in Dr Tim Kieffer’s laboratory at UBC, where she studied the development of human embryonic stem cells into pancreatic insulin-producing beta cells as a potential cell therapy for patients with diabetes. She started her independent position in 2016 at Carleton, where her lab studies the pathogenesis of diabetes with a focus on islet biology, pancreas development, and toxicology. The Bruin Lab has received funding from CIHR, NSERC, Diabetes Canada, Breakthrough T1D, and the Ontario Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Dr Bruin has also been recognized with an Early Researcher Award and a Dorothy Killam Fellowship.
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