About Dr. Klegeris
My interest in neuroinflammatory processes led me to the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, where I did my post-doctoral work in the Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research. Currently I am a Professor at the Department of Biology, I.K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, UBC Okanagan Campus in Kelowna, B.C., Canada. Identification of novel treatment options for neurodegenerative disease is the main research focus of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology that I established at UBC Okanagan Campus. I also teach pharmacology and biochemistry courses for upper-year undergraduate students. |
"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."
 "The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."
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March 31, 2019
Congratulations to Athena on receiving the Undergraduate Research Award for the summer of 2019! Way to go!
Originally from Latvia, I began studying various cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases during my D.Phil. thesis work at the University Department of Pharmacology and Exeter College, Oxford University, UK. Towards the end of my graduate work, I became interested in inflammatory responses of the central nervous system and started studies on microglial cells, which represent the immune system in the brain.
