Principal Investigators
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Principal investigators
Tommy Alain
mRNA translation, viral immunotherapies, cancer biology
Steffany Bennet
Lipidomics, bioinformatics, neurobiology
Jason Berman
Genetic and xenotransplantation models of cancers and rare diseases
Shawn Beug
Cancer Biology, Immunotherapy, Cell Death, Inflammation
Alexandre Blais
Muscle development, transcription, and chromatin regulation
Kin Chan
Cancer biology, model systems, mutation signatures
David Cook
Cancer biology, cellular plasticity, single-cell genomics
Willard (Will) Costain
Associate member (Pharmacology, Health, Biotherapeutics, Bioassay, Genomics)
Marceline Côté
Viral signaling, intracellular trafficking
Jean-François Couture
Structural biology, X-ray crystallography, chromatin regulation
Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf
Associate member (Computational biology, bioinformatics, metabolomics, systems biology, applied data mining, machine learning, NMR spectroscopy)
Damien D'Amours
Chromosome structure, regulation of cell division, DNA repair, chromatin remodeling, cancer biology, model systems
Michael Downey
Protein lysine acetylation and polyphosphate biology
Daniel Figeys
Proteomics, microbiome analysis
Morgan Fullerton
Metabolic kinases, nutrient sensing, immunometabolism, cardiometabolic diseases
Suresh Gadde
Translational nanomedicine, biomaterials
Francesco Gentile
Computational drug discovery, deep learning
Derrick Gibbings
Micro RNAs, autophagy, neurodegenerative disorders
Ashkan Golshani
Peptite design, AI-driven drug development and protein engineering
Mary-Ellen Harper
Mitochondrial bioenergetics and uncoupling, glutathione redox, diabetes, obesity, cardiomyopathies
Jennifer Hill
Associate member (Proteomics, cell surface proteins, biotherapeutic characterization and development)
Arezu Jahani-Asl
Glioblastoma, Intellectual Disability, Stem Cells
Anna Jezierski
Associate member (Stem cell differentiation, blood brain barrier, 3D bioprinting, engineered cell-based therapies, rare diseases)
Mads Kaern
Synthetic biology, gene network analysis
Mireille Khacho
Mitochondrial dynamics, stem cell biology, tissue regeneration
Mathieu Lavallée-Adam
Proteomics, network analysis, machine learning, bioinformatics
Seung-Hwan Lee
Immunotherapy, immunometabolism, natural killer cells, radiobiology
Scott McComb
Associate member (Cancer immunotherapy discovery, high-throughput functional immune assays, CAR-T therapies, multi-specific antibodies)
Lynn Megeney
Cell fate control, stem cell biology
Keir Menzies
NAD+ signaling and energy metabolism, mitochondria, neuromuscular diseases
Arvind Mer
AI, machine learning, bioinformatics, computational biology, cancer
Erin Mulvihill
Lipid metabolism, intestinal biology, diabetes, cardiovascular biology, mouse genetics
Mona Nemer
Molecular cardiology, transcriptional regulation, cardiac birth defects
Matthew Pamenter
Natural adaptations to hypoxia, comparative physiology, neurobiology, mitochondrial function
Izabella Pena
Metabolic and mitochondrial function in epilepsies and neurodegeneration, zebrafish models
Theodore Perkins
Bioinformatics, image analysis, gene regulation
Maxime W. Rousseaux
Neurodegeneration, Parkinson's disease, genome engineering, mouse models
Adam Rudner
Phage biology, yeast genetics, chromosome biology
Michael Rudnicki
Stem cells, myogenesis and muscle regeneration, muscular dystrophy, neuromuscular disease
Ryan Russell
Autophagy, cancer biology, Crohn's disease
Jagdeep Sandhu
Associate member (Parkinson’s disease, neuroinflammation, innate immunity, NLRP3 inflammasome, extracellular vesicles, therapeutics)
Julie St-Pierre
Metabolomics, mitochondria, metabolic adaptations in cancer and chemotherapies
Xiaojian Shao
Associate member (Bioinformatics, machine learning and deep learning, DNA methylation, single cell genomics)
William Stanford
Stem cells, cancer biology, epigenetic control of cell fate, regenerative medicine
Alain Stintzi
Inflammatory bowel diseases, microbiome analysis, transcriptional regulation
Albert Stolow
Molecular photonics
Laura Trinkle-Mulcahy
Proteomics, phosphatase regulation, cell signaling, microscopy
Barbara Vanderhyden
Ovarian cancer, tumour microenvironment, chromatin remodeling, therapeutics
Lisheng Wang
Embryonic stem cells, cancer stem cells, cell signaling
Xuhua Xia
Evolutionary molecular genetics, bioinformatics, molecular phylogenetics
