GEORDON FRERE
PhD Student
Geordi received his Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Chemistry with high distinction from the University of Toronto Mississauga (2019). He then entered a direct-entry PhD program at the University of Toronto under the joint supervision of Profs. Patrick Gunning and Scott Prosser. Currently, he balances his interests in expanding the molecular toolkit for studying the dynamics and pharmacology of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) using NMR as well as leveraging covalent chemistries to perturb the functions of disease-associated proteins through inhibition and monovalent degradation modalities. Geordi has been supported by an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2019) and an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master's award (2020), and is currently supported by an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral (2021-2024) for his work on exploring new fragment-based approaches to lead discovery using NMR of covalently modified proteins.