Éric Bonneil, 1st prize winner of the 2019 FRQS Research Professionals Excellence Awards

A molecule to cure Lowe syndrome

The team of Investigator Sébastien Carréno has discovered that a molecule could be able to treat Lowe syndrome, an orphan genetic disease. This advance was published in the Journal of Cell Biology.

$110,250 raised at the 10th Blais Family Fund Golf Tournament to benefit IRIC

On Friday, July 5, 2019, 225 people gathered at the Buckingham Golf Club for the 10^th Blais Family Fund Golf Tournament. A record amount of $110,250 was raised to support cancer research efforts carried out at IRIC. Pierre Blais, he himself a leukemia survivor, thanks to an experimental treatment suggested by Dr. Guy Sauvageau, Principal Investigator at IRIC, is the driving force behind the event, which every year brings together family and friends devoted to the cause.

$150,000 in funding from the Richard and Edith Strauss Foundation for two promising cancer research projects

IRIC is proud to announce $150,000 in funding from the Richard and Edith Strauss Foundation for two promising cancer research projects. For the “Identification of biological targets influencing the response to anti-AML drugs” project, Dr. Guy Sauvageau received $100,000 in funding. As for Dr. Sonia Cellot, Paediatric hematologist at CHU Sainte-Justine, and Brian Wilhelm, they received $50,000 in financial support for their project titled “Characterising the stem/progenitor cell of origin of high fatality pediatric leukemia”.

Anne Marinier and Marc Therrien are among the winners of the LeadAction-Onco competition

The teams of Anne Marinier and Marc Therrien, Principal Investigators at IRIC, were selected as part of the LeadAction-Onco Competition, a joint project by IRICoR and the Oncopole.

$10M awarded to IRIC for the development of new cancer-fighting drugs and immunotherapies

IRIC has been awarded a 10-million dollar grant from the government of Quebec’s Fonds d’accélération des collaborations en santé (FACS), to develop new cancer-fighting drugs in collaboration with biopharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb and collaborators from seven academic research centres from Quebec and abroad.

IRIC’s participation in the Women & Science Event

For the past two years, IRIC has been on hand at the Science Centre as part of “Women & Science”, an event organized within the framework of the United Nations’ International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

10 years of success in medicinal chemistry!

On June 12, IRIC celebrated the 10^th anniversary of its Medicinal Chemistry Core Facility, the largest of its kind in a university setting in Canada.

Congratulations to IRIC Travel Awards

As part of the Winter 2019 IRIC Travel Awards competition, 4 students received a scholarship to present the results of their research outside the province of Quebec.

IRIC Next Generation Awards

Are you looking for a dynamic and stimulating internship environment in an innovative research institute? Would you like to join a team working on cancer and immunology-related themes?

Samuel Mailhot-Larouche is awarded a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

IRIC is proud to announce that Samuel Mailhot-Larouche, a Ph.D. student in Molecular Biology at the Institute, has been awarded a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Sébastien Lemieux

Sequencing of the 20,000 human genes produced countless data that must now be deciphered in order to give it meaning. Bioinformatician Sébastien Lemieux, of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer of the Université de Montréal, devotes himself to that task in the field of cancer research.

World Cancer Day 2019

For the past several years, on the occasion of World Cancer Day, IRIC has organized a free breakfast-chat for the purpose of popularizing the research work carried out at the Institute. In 2019, the breakfast-chat focused on the Leucegene Project.

First edition of Effervescence: a tremendous success!

The first edition of EFFERVESCENCE was held on April 24 and 25. Driven by Montréal InVivo and organized by a group of 14 partners from the milieu, this major event in the Life Sciences and Health Technologies sector brought together more than 550 people at TOHU.

Scotiabank Charity Challenge 2019: a team of runners from IRIC answered the bell

The Scotiabank Charity Challenge took place on April 27 and 28, in which a team of runners from IRIC took part to raise funds to benefit cancer research.

IRIC Student Recruitment Event 2019

The IRIC Student Recruitment Event offers students interested in pursuing graduate studies in the field of cancer research a unique opportunity to participate in an international student recruitment event at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal. The 2019 edition took place from June 12th to 14th, 2019.

The IRIC Summer School in Systems Biology

The IRIC Summer School in Systems Biology includes a series of required and elective theoretical courses  that cover various topics related to cellular and molecular biology of cancer, molecular genetics of eukaryotes, immuno-oncology, model organisms and approaches in systems biology.

CL’79

Since 2014, 1979 Collège Laval (CL79) graduates have rallied around one of their own, Dr. Guy Sauvageau, through a significant act supporting scientific discoveries in the hope of generating new anti-cancer therapies.