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Six Fonds de recherche du Québec scholarships and grants awarded to IRIC members for 2025-2026.
Published on July 4, 2025
The Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) is offering $38.2 million in training awards, $13.6 million in career awards and $10.8 million in research grants for a total of $62.6 million in new awards for 2025-2026.
IRIC is proud to count several of its members among the winners of these competitions.
Congratulations to all!
Master’s scholarship
- Emma Teszner, laboratory of Matthew Smith: $20,000 scholarship for her project “Elucidating direct mediators of Hippo signaling and RAS-induced proliferation”.
Doctoral fellowships
- Yousef Alaessa, laboratory of Geneviève Deblois: $100,000 grant for his project “Characterization of reciprocal regulation between cellular metabolism and Bromodomain proteins in triple-negative breast cancer”.
- Ann-Sophie Gironne, Geneviève Deblois and Sébastien Lemieux laboratories: $100,000 grant for her project “Role of transposable elements in the response to chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer”.
- Faustine Gorse, Sylvie Mader laboratory: $25,000 grant for her project entitled “FOXA1 and FOXC1, specific regulators of normal and tumoral mammary subpopulations”.
- Gabrielle Martineau, Guy Sauvageau’s laboratory: $100,000 grant for her project “The role of epigenetic modifications and telomere erosion in the age-related functional decline of hematopoietic stem cells”.
- Eve Petit, laboratory of Delphine Bouilly: $100,000 grant for her project “Development of graphene-based biosensors for microfluidic analysis of individual cells”.
