IRIC - Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer

A total envelope of $612,610 for a project led by Sylvain Meloche, with support from IRIC, Immune Biosolutions and the SRC

In early 2025, Quebec’s Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie (MEIE) awarded $475,000 in funding to Sylvain Meloche’s team, which heads IRIC’s Signalling and Cell Growth Research Unit. Axelys supported the team in the preparation of this funding application under the Programme de Maturation technologique (PSOv2d). This funding leverages additional private funding from Immune Biosolutions and the Société de Recherche sur le Cancer (SRC) respectively.

IRIC Gala Audace: $1,060,025 raised for cancer research

On April 9, the 2025 edition of the Gala Audace of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal was held. Thanks to the generosity of over 300 guests at the Marché Bonsecours, our valued donors and sponsors, a total of $1,060,025 was raised to support cancer research at IRIC.

Manipulating the very small at large scale

The team led by Delphine Bouilly, director of IRIC’s Electronic Nanobiosensor Design and Application Research Unit, has developed an original technique for manipulating and moving graphene, a one-atom-thick material involved in the assembly of electronic chips, for applications in molecular diagnostics. Led by doctoral student Amira Bencherif, the study was published in the journal npj 2D materials and applications.

IRIC and UdeM recruit Carino Gurjao as Principal Investigator

IRIC is proud to announce the arrival of Carino Gurjao as a new Principal Investigator in the Genomic and Integrative Medicine Research Unit. He will hold the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Université de Montréal (UdeM), affiliated with IVADO.

Meet Carino Gurjao, new Principal Investigator at IRIC

IRIC is proud to announce the arrival of Carino Gurjao as the new Principal Investigator of the Genomic and Integrative Medicine Research Unit.

Professor Gurjao generously agreed to answer a few questions:

Celebrating 20 years of transplantation for William Brock!

February 17, 2025, will remain a milestone for William Brock, Chairman of IRIC’s Board of Directors. It’s been 20 years since he received a stem cell transplant that cured him of leukemia… a transplant that changed his life forever!