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As part of the 11th Québec City Healthcare Industry Forum, Génome Québec, in collaboration with BIOQuébec, is organizing the panel Health innovations and public understanding: The urgent need to close the gap. Is it possible to successfully take a turn towards innovation in health without public support? For major international leaders, the answer is “no”… So what…

Genome Canada is pleased to advise the research community of an upcoming funding opportunity – the 2017 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (B/CB) Competition. This competition is anticipated to be formally launched in December 2017 with detailed Guidelines and application forms available at that time. This funding opportunity will be aimed at supporting research projects to…

In this breast cancer awareness month, two major articles on the subject were published in Nature and Nature Genetics. The studies, the result of a major international collaboration involving hundreds of researchers worldwide, identified 72 new common variants that contribute to the risk of developing breast cancer. Professor Jacques Simard, researcher at the CHU de…

To promote a better understanding and support decision making regarding the complex issues raised by genetic discrimination, Génome Québec asked the Centre of Genomics and Policy to produce a Policy Brief on the subject. The Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) is at the crossroads of the legal, medical and public policy fields. Within a…

Daniel Coderre, President and CEO of Génome Québec, would like to congratulate Ms. Mona Nemer on her appointment as Canada’s new Chief Science Advisor. The announcement, made yesterday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, confirmed that Ms. Nemer’s role will be to promote science and its real benefits for Canadians: new knowledge, innovative technologies and advanced…

Montréal, September 26, 2017 -The Chairman of the Génome Québec Board, Martin Godbout, is proud to announce the appointment of five new board members to its Board of Directors:  –    Isabelle Bouffard, B. Sc. Director, Research and Agricultural Policy Department, Union des producteurs agricoles  –    Jean-François Ethier, M.D., CM, PhD, FRCPC Clinical Research and Assistant Professor, Department of…

Génome Québec is happy to welcome in Montréal the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology that will take place from July 23 to 26 at the Palais des congrès. We invite you to take this opportunity to visit the McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre booth that will be on site. For all the…

Montreal scientists and their international colleagues have closed in on specific genes responsible for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) from a list of over 600 genes that were suspects for the disease. Professor John D. Rioux and his team at the Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal, along with their colleagues with the International IBD…

Daniel Coderre, President and CEO of Génome Québec, was present today at the BIO International Convention in San Diego for the Québec Pavilion opening. He took the opportunity to thank Health Minister, Dr. Gaétan Barrette, who reiterated its support in Génome Québec by highlighting the $40M granted to the organization in the last Québec budget.…

Daniel Coderre, President and CEO of Génome Québec, was very proud to participate on Sunday in the signing of an agreement between Génome Québec and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The event was held as part of Québec’s economic mission in Israel, led by Québec Premier Philippe Couillard, along with Dominique Anglade, Québec’s minister of…