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June 1st 2012, Montréal – Génome Québec welcomes the Québec government’s plan to initiate a strategic reflection on the future of the life sciences sector in the province. According to several speakers at the forum, Québec has several significant assets: scientific excellence, a synergistic ecosystem, world-class infrastructure, a public health system and a proven government…

For all the steps in the application process to the competition, refer to Genome Canada guidelines concerning this funding opportunity. Call for proposals is available here. For all the steps in the application process to the competition, refer to Genome Canada guidelines concerning this funding opportunity by clicking here. It is important to read Génome…

The McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre is pleased to announce that they have been awarded funding totalling $7.6 million over a two-year period from Genome Canada’s 2010 Competition: Science and Technology Innovation Centre Operations Support. This award, a record sum for Québec, will be used to fund the operations of the Innovation Centre as…

Martin Godbout, Chair of the Board, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Thomas J. Hudson to the Génome Québec Board of Directors. The appointment was unanimously approved at the last general assembly. “Given the current shift in the life sciences business model, Dr. Hudson’s contribution will be pivotal to Génome Québec’s development and…

Marc LePage, President and CEO of Génome Québec, is pleased to announce the results of the Québec Vert Competition, launched last spring, and made possible thanks to a grant from the Ministère du Développement économique, de l’Innovation et de l’Exportation. The aim of this competition is to fund pilot projects that will use genomics to…

The Chairman of the Board, Martin Godbout, is pleased to announce the appointment of Marc LePage as President and CEO of Génome Québec. Marc LePage was, most recently, Special Advisor, Climate Change and Energy for the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C. from September 2009 to the present. He previously served as Consul General at…

Génome Québec and the Québec Consortium for Drug Discovery (CQDM) are happy to announce the winners of the “Défi Tweete tes neurones!,” a contest organized to promote the life sciences sector, in particular medical and biopharmaceutical research. The winning team, which included Cyril Bernier, Anthony Hachez and David Pontbriand, marketing communication students at École des…

An international research team led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC) has made a major genetic breakthrough that could change the way pediatric cancers are treated in the future. The researchers identified two genetic mutations responsible for up to 40 per cent of glioblastomas in children – a fatal…