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May is a special time of year in Québec, as the province celebrates Tree and Forest Month. As a fitting tribute, John Mackay and Jean Bousquet, two Québec-based scientists from Laval University, have made a major breakthrough in the rapidly evolving field of forestry research. Working in partnership with Canadian and Scandinavian researchers, they have…

Genome Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, announced the results of the 2012 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Competition. These new Canadian bioinformatics and computational biology research projects will help manage, analyze and interpret vast amounts of genomics data to accelerate advances in personalized medicine, public health and other areas of importance. Génome…

Génome Québec would like to commend the excellence of Québec researchers and congratulate them for their exceptional performance in the Genomics and Personalized Health competition launched by Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. TO CONSULT THE FACT SHEETS AND LEARN MORE ABOUT THESE PROJECTS, CLICK HERE.

PEOPLE (Marie Curie) Calls for Proposals Calls for proposals in the PEOPLE program, which includes the International Outgoing Fellowship (IOF), International Incoming Fellowship (IIF), International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) and Initial Training Networks (ITN), were published in March. For more information on each of these programmes, please click here. If you’d like to find…

April 18 is DNA Day in several countries, including the United States and Europe. This is an important date in the world of scientific research since 60 years ago, Watson and Crick discovered the DNA structure. In addition, this year marks the 10th anniversary of the first human genome sequencing (completion was announced April 14,…

Genome Canada competition: Québec research fares extremely well   The support provided by Génome Québec and the hard work of Québec researchers have paid off. They fared extremely well, since over 60 percent of the federal co-funding available used to carry out the 12 projects (out of 17) selected as part of the Genome Canada…

Working with an international consortium conducting research on breast, ovarian and prostate cancer among 200,000 people, Professor Jacques Simard, researcher at the CHU de Québec Research Centre and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Oncogenetics at Université Laval, was actively involved in the discovery of DNA “spelling mistakes” linked to breast cancer. These mistakes…

The Canadian Cancer Society has awarded $2.3 million to Université de Montréal and its Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) for Dr. Claude Perreault and Dr. Guy Sauvageau research whose work aims to develop new treatments against cancer. – See more at: http://www.iric.ca/en/#sthash.5T7x4wH0.dpuf To learn more (in French only): http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/recherche/financement/20130227-2-3-millions-accordes-a-la-recherche-pour-prevenir-le-cancer.html

An excellent report on rare diseases was broadcasted on Découverte at Radio-Canada. Dr. Nada Jabado and Dr. Jacques Michaud explain the role of genomics in understanding the origin of rare diseases. Part of the report was filmed at the McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, where it shows the role of next-generation sequencers in…

The Government of Québec announced today an investment in the Personalized Medicine Partnership for Cancer (PMPC). The PMPC will be under the leadership of Caprion Proteome Inc., a Montreal-based biotech company specializing in the discovery and development of protein-based diagnostic biomarkers. Génome Québec congratulates Martin LeBlanc, President and Chief Executive Officer of Caprion Proteomics, who is…