Dylan Burger

Dylan Burger (PhD) is a Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute where he serves as Associate Director of the Inflammation and Chronic Disease Program and Director of the Kidney Research Centre. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Ottawa. He holds a PhD in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of Western Ontario and is an internationally recognized expert on extracellular vesicles and their role in diabetes, aging, and renal disease. 

He has authored more than 120 manuscripts and has received several awards including a KRESCENT New Investigator Award (2014), a Canadian Society of Nephrology New Investigator Lectureship (2016), the University of Ottawa Department of Medicine PhD Scientist Award (2018), an Outstanding Volunteer Award from Hypertension Canada (2022), and the University of Ottawa Educator of the Year –Basic Sciences – Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (2024)

Dr. Burger is the President-Elect for the Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Co-chair of the International Society of Extracellular Vesicles Special Interest Group for the Genitourinary System. He is a founding member of the Lancet Commission on Hypertension and Associate Editor for the European Heart Journal and the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles.