Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology.
Director, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Professor.
Distinguished Research Chair, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa.
Foreign Talent, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center.
Foreign Expert Talent, Jiangsu province.
Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) for Visiting Scientists.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
(613) 562-5800 x: 8674
dfigeys[AT]uottawa.ca
Dr. Daniel Figeys is Director and a Professor in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and a member of the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, and the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica-University of Ottawa Joint Center in Systems and Personalized Pharmacology. Daniel obtained a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in chemistry from the Université de Montréal. He obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Alberta and did his postdoctoral studies at the University of Washington. Prior to his current position, Dr. Figeys was Senior VP of System Biology and Lead Profiling with MDS-Proteomics (2000-2004). He was responsible for all the analytical functions of MDS-Proteomics.
Dr. Figeys was recently appointed Director of the new School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine. University president Jacques Frémont lauded the creation of the as one of the most exciting projects on the table at the University of Ottawa, particularly for la Francophonie. The new School will initially offer a four-year French-language undergraduate PharmD program in pharmacy starting in 2023; aimed at Francophone clientele, it will train students to practice the profession of pharmacist and aims to meet the need for Francophone and bilingual pharmacists in minority communities. The School is already planning to expand with a graduate program and a program in pharmacology.