Assistant Professor | Assistant Professor

Meghan Chenoweth

Neurosciences and Clinical Translation

MSc, PhD

meghan.chenoweth@utoronto.ca

Address

Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 777 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada

Research Interests

Addictions, Tobacco Use Disorder, Smoking Cessation, Pharmacogenetics, Statistical Genetics, Vulnerable Populations, Sex and Gender Differences, Concurrent Disorders

Appointment Status

Cross-Appointed

Qualification

HBSc
MSc
PhD
Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto)

Professional Memberships

Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Pharmacogene Variation Consortium
Pharmacogenomics Global Research Network, Ontario Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse Node Team
American Society of Human Genetics

Dr. Meghan Chenoweth is an Assistant Professor (tenure-stream) in Pharmacology and Toxicology, an Assistant Professor (cross-appointed) in Psychiatry, and a Collaborator Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Dr. Chenoweth is studying intersections between genetics, sex and gender, substance use, and concurrent psychiatric disorders. Dr. Chenoweth leverages genome-wide approaches, sex-based analysis, and biomarkers to answer her research questions. Examples of current projects include:

Identifying pharmacogenomic predictors of smoking cessation medication efficacy and side effects
Investigating the shared genetic liability for substance use and concurrent psychiatric disorders, and identifying new biological targets for drug discovery
Discovering and functionally characterizing novel variants in genes involved in nicotine metabolism
Examining genetic risk factors for substance use, including cigarettes and electronic cigarettes (i.e. vapes), in youth

Dr. Chenoweth’s work is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the National Institutes of Health.

For a list of publications, please visit: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Chenoweth+MJ&sort=date