Sergio Grinstein

Sergio Grinstein completed his Ph.D. in 1976 at the Centro de Investigacion, in Mexico City. He then spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto, followed by a year in the Department of Biochemistry at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He is currently working at the Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto, where he was Head of the Program in Cell Biology from 1987-2007 and has been Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto since 1988.

Dr. Grinstein is interested in membrane biology, ion transport and the innate immune response.

Courses Taught

BCH 2127H Advances in Optical Microscopy: From Single Molecules to Four-Dimensional Imaging

Awards

2004 — Michael Smith Award, Canadian Institutes for Health Research
1991-2002 — International Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
1987 — Ayerst Award of the Canadian Biochemical Society