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Genomics plays a vital role in driving Québec's economic future. That is why Génome Québec aims at advancing knowledge in genomics by funding major research projects. In this section, you will discover all the latest achievements in the field of genomics.
McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre nets key funding for groundbreaking epigenetics research
Oct. 22, 2012
The Government of Canada and Génome Québec awards key funding for researchers at the Innovation Centre
$ 1.8 million for research on Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis
Oct. 19, 2012
Montreal-led international research group awarded $ 1.8 million for research on Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
Robert Klein Advocates for Public Funding of Genomics in Québec
Oct. 18, 2012
During his visit to Québec City for the BioContact congress, Robert Klein of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, addressed the participants on the importance of funding genomics.
CARTaGENE: the largest ongoing prospective health study of men and women in Quebec
Oct. 17, 2012
An article of Philip Awadalla and his team has just been published in the Journal of Epidemiology: Cohort profile of the CARTaGENE study: Quebec’s population-based biobank for public health and personalized genomics.
Abstract: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dys160?
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Full Text: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/dys160?
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PDF: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/dys160?
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Hotspot Mutations in H3F3A and IDH1 Define Distinct Epigenetic and Biological Subgroups of Glioblastoma
Oct. 16, 2012
An article on Glioblastoma published in Cancer Cell : from Nada Jabado and Stefan M. Pfister
http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/abstract/S1535-6108%2812%2900364-9?switch=standard
Also in Cancer cell: Methylome Alterations “Mark” New Therapeutic Opportunities in Glioblastoma
http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/abstract/S1535-6108%2812%2900403-5
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2012: geneticists honored
Oct. 9, 2012
After rewarding Watson and Crick discovery of DNA in 1962, the work of Barbara McClintock in 1983, the identification of the human genome in 2002, stem cells in 2007, and in 2009, the work on the "immortality" of the genome, genomics is once again honored in 2012 with the Nobel Prize in Medicine!
White spruce in the sights of researchers
Oct. 5, 2012
An excellent article has just been published in the September issue of the Evolutionary Applications journal. The article demonstrates the absence of effects of genetic selection on white spruce even after intensive selection.
The genotyping of the trees was done with the support of McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre.
10 percent of aortic valve disease explained by genes discovery
Oct. 1, 2012
Researchers at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center and University of Montreal have identified genetic origins in 10% of an important form of congenital heart diseases by studying the genetic variability within families.
Genetic make-up of children explains how they fight malaria infection
Sept. 12, 2012
Researchers from Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center and University of Montreal have identified several novel genes that make some children more efficient than others in the way their immune system responds to malaria infection. This world-first in integrative efforts to track down genes predisposing to specific immune responses to malaria and ultimately to identify the most suitable targets for vaccines or treatments was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by lead author Dr. Youssef Idaghdour and senior author Pr. Philip Awadalla, whose laboratory has been performing world-wide malaria research for the past 13 years.