Dr. GPCR Podcast
We bring you closer to dedicated scientists who work tirelessly to help understand GPCR pathophysiology.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 211
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode #10 Novel signaling regulators of opioid receptors with Dr. John Streicher
Our guest in this episode of the Dr.GPCR podcast is Dr. John Streicher from the department of pharmacology at the University of Arizona. John started grad school in 1999 and spent some time figuring …
Episode #9 Exploring your career options
In this special Dr. GPCR podcast episode, we sat down to chat with Lauren Celano to talk about career options for Ph.D.’s. Working in a lab allows scientists to gain amazing hard and soft skills, whi…
Episode #8 R&D in the Time of Covid-19 with Dr. Graciela Pineyro
Dr. Graciela Pineyro is a professor of pharmacology at the department of pharmacology and physiology of the University of Montreal. She has done extensive work on the molecular pharmacology of opioid…
Episode #7 Armchair science in the time of Covid-19 with Dr. Paul Insel
Dr. Paul Insel is currently a Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and the University of California San Diego. Paul thinks broadly about science and has been actively publishing papers about his i…
Episode #6 R&D in the Time of Covid-19 with Dr. J. Silvio Gutkind
Dr. J. Silvio Gutkind sheds light on his work and life since the beginning of COVID restrictions. Dr. J. Silvio Gutkind is a Professor of Pharmacology based at UCSD School of Medicine. A large compon…
Episode #5 R&D in the Time of Covid-19 with Dr. Terry Hébert
Dr. Terry Hébert is a Professor within the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics at McGill University. Much of his work is based around GPCR signaling in context to cardiovascular diseases. In th…
Episode #4 Not everything is Black and White: G-proteins vs β-arrestins
Dr. Graciela Pineyro’s love for GPCR pharmacology started in Uruguay where she first worked on the serotonin receptors. This interest in research and pharmacology took Graciela to Canada where she st…
Episode #3 GPCR signaling in cancer with Dr. J. Silvio Gutkind
Have you had moments that defined your scientific tastes? For Dr. J Silvio Gutkind, a class on oncogenes and his interests for GPCRs helped shape his scientific interests. These took him from the Uni…
Episode #2 How cellular background and localization influence GPCR function
Dr. Terry Hebert wanted to be a microbiologist. Instead, he ended up getting interested in membrane protein as he followed the biology of a bacterial toxin that affects a mammalian ion channel. Today…
Episode #1 How thinking broadly leads to significant scientific discoveries
In 1975, Dr. Paul Insel was at the FASEB experimental biology meeting in Atlantic City. During dinner with colleagues and Alfred Gillman, co-recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicin…
Episode #0 Dr. GPCR Podcast
In this Episode 0 of the podcast, I, Dr. Yamina Bechiche, your host, and founder of DrGPCR introduce you to the very first podcast dedicated to GPCR researchers and their work. This podcast is part …