Eric Shoubridge

Dr. Eric Shoubridge is James McGill Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Genetics at McGill University. He also occupies the Isaac Walton Killam Chair in Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) where his research laboratory is located.

Dr. Shoubridge obtained his B.Sc. and his M.Sc. from McGill University and completed his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia. He conducted his post-doctoral training in the Biochemistry Department of Oxford University and joined the faculty at the MNI in 1985. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2004 and named a Fellow of the Canadian Institutes for Advanced Research in 2006. He was an International Research Scholar at the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute and a Senior Investigator of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He was the recipient of the Jacob’s Ladder Award in 2006, the Established Investigator Award from the MNI in 2009, and the Champion of Genetics Award from the Canadian Gene Cure Foundation in 2012.

Research in his laboratory focuses on the molecular genetics of mitochondrial disease. His laboratory developed animal models to investigate the transmission and segregation of mtDNA, and pioneered functional cloning methods to identify the genetic defects in individual patients with autosomal recessive mitochondrial disease. His laboratory uses a variety of biochemical and molecular techniques to investigate mechanisms of pathogenesis, and a proximity ligation assay to interrogate the mitochondrial interactome in health and disease.