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At the International Congress on Personalized Health Care, held at the Palais des congrès de Montréal from September 23 to 26, 2018, Professor Jean-François Deleuze, directeur du Centre national de recherche en génomique humaine, presented France’s 2025 Genomic Medicine Plan. Accompanied by Martin LeBlanc of Caprion and Dr. Tarik Möröy of the Montréal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM),…

The President and CEO of Génome Québec, Daniel Coderre, would like to congratulate the new Premier of Québec, François Legault, and his team. The election of a majority Government that places economic prosperity at the top of its priorities is welcome news. As an organization dedicated to research and innovation, Génome Québec is a leading…

Génome Québec congratulates two Québec research teams who have been awarded major funding for projects in the sectors of human health and the environment. In total the teams secured funding of $5 million from a total of $21 million available across Canada under the Genome Canada Genomic Applications Partnership Program. Developing a new treatment for a…

The Genome Project-write (GP-write) is an open, international research project led by a multidisciplinary group of scientific leaders who will oversee a reduction in the costs of engineering and testing large genomes in cell lines by 1,000-fold within ten years. GP-write is also developing new technologies and an ethical framework for genome-scale engineering, as well…

We invite you to read our 2017-2018 Annual Report summarizing our activities. Pleasant reading!

Following scientific community consultations, the Oncopole has decided to prioritize training of doctoral students in bioinformatics in Quebec. To that end, the Oncopole has made a commitment to add to the doctoral awards offered by the FRQS in that discipline in 2019.   Applicants from Quebec or from outside Quebec who wish to pursue doctoral…

The McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre received today enthusiastic Secondary 3 and 4 students as part of a career discovery week in Life Sciences and Health Technologies (LFHT) organized by Montréal Relève, in collaboration with Montréal InVivo. All through the day, participants explored the mysteries of the infinitely small by visiting the sequencing…

The three federal research funding agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (the agencies)—have developed a draft Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy, which aims to support Canadian research excellence by fostering sound digital data management…

The use of genetic information outside of the health context can create some concerns regarding the possibility that it may negatively affect someone based on their genetic profile, a phenomenon referred to as genetic discrimination. The Genetic Discrimination Observatory (GDO) is a unique communication platform created to help prevent genetic discrimination. The GDO is currently holding…

The foundational step of this major project is a pilot program on rare diseases. Genome Canada is encouraging the submission of projects to the Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP). The projects must translate research into clinical implementation with the goal of having genome sequencing offered as a clinical genetic test within an established diagnostic and…