Dr. Bernhard H J Juurlink

Dr Bernhard H J Juurlink received his Ph.D. in developmental biology from McMaster University in 1975. He did post-doctoral studies in neuroscience and joined the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology in the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. He taught there for 30 years and also held administrative positions. From 2008 to 2011 he was a founding faculty member of the College of Medicine at the newly-established Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Juurlink's...See more

Dr Bernhard H J Juurlink received his Ph.D. in developmental biology from McMaster University in 1975. He did post-doctoral studies in neuroscience and joined the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology in the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. He taught there for 30 years and also held administrative positions. From 2008 to 2011 he was a founding faculty member of the College of Medicine at the newly-established Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Juurlink's major research program revolved around examining how cells and tissues respond to disturbances in their environments and became very interested in oxidative stress and inflammation. For many years his research focussed on neurological disorders such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord & brain injury, overcoming drug resistance in cancer cells, imaging brain cancer and treating brain tumours in animal models using synchrotron-derived x-rays. A major thrust of his research over the past 15 years has been delineating how dietary phase 2 protein inducing phytochemicals (Nrf2 activators) can decrease oxidative stress and inflammation in a variety of chronic disease models. See less