Hans H. Zingg

Biography

Dr. Zingg received his MD in 1973 at the University of Basel and his Ph.D. at McGill under the guidance of the late Dr. Y. C. Patel. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School with Dr. Joel Habener, he was recruited back to McGill where he rose to the ranks of Full Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Obstetrics & Gynecology. Prior to being Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, he was Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Associate Director, Fundamental Research, of the MUHC Research Institute. He was the holder of a Wyeth-Ayerst Clinical Research Chair, a Distinguished Scientist Award from the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigations and a Senior Scientist Award from the CIHR. He is a member of the American Association of Physicians (AAP).

Research Interest

Research contributions include the discovery of a novel paracrine oxytocin system in the uterus, novel direct interactions between steroid hormones and peptide hormone receptors, cloning of the rat oxytocin receptor gene, characterization of oxytocin receptor-associated signaling mechanisms and discovery of novel genes expressed in the uterus. Dr. Zingg is actively involved in teaching medical students basic concepts in endocrinology and selected clinical skills. He is also seeing patients at the Metabolic Day Centre of the MUHC.