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Serena Chan receives one of the prestigious NSERC scholarships

Serena Chan is the recipient of one of Canada’s graduate research scholarships at the master’s level. Congratulations, Serena!

Serena Chan wins one of the IRIC Master's Scholarship Competition awards

Serena Chan is the recipient of one of the master’s salary grants. Congratulations Serena!

Serena Chan and Carl Munoz receive various scholarships for academic excellence from the University of Montreal

Serena Chan and Carl Munoz have each been awarded two scholarships for academic excellence by various entities at the University of Montreal. Congratulations Serena and Carl!

Serena Chan, Léa Kaufmann, and Carl Munoz present their research at IVADO Digital Futurs 2025

Serena Chan and Léa Kaufmann each presented a poster of their research work, and Carl Munoz was selected for an oral presentation.

Sébastien Lemieux receives CFI funding

Sébastien Lemieux and Carino Gurjao receive funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the Government of Quebec. Congratulations!

Sébastien Lemieux receives a major grant from the federal government

The laboratories of Delphine Bouilly, Sylvie Mader, and Sébastien Lemieux have been awarded a significant grant from the federal government. Congratulations!

Carl Munoz honored at the 11th IRIC Scientific Day

During IRIC’s 11th Scientific Day, Carl Munoz was awarded one of the presentation prizes for his poster on Quantifying the impact of sequencing depth reduction and machine-learning-based denoising on RNA-seq data. Congratulations Carl!

Nicolas Jacquin and Léa Kaufmann represent the Lemieux Lab at IRIC 2025 Recruitment Event

Nicolas Jacquin and Léa Kaufmann presented the Lemieux Lab’s ongoing research on June 4, during the 2025 edition of the IRIC student recruitment competition. They were able to talk with potential future graduate students who had come from all over the world to visit IRIC.

Léonard Sauvé successfully defends his doctoral thesis

Congratulations to Dr. Léonard Sauvé for successfully defending his thesis! His thesis, entitled Parameterization of Survival Models & Dimensional Reduction by Deep Learning on Cancer Transcriptomes, is now available in the UdeM Papyrus system.

Léa Kaufmann is invited to the 31st Scientific Symposium of the Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics at the Université de Sherbrooke

As the recipient of the 2024 Simon-Pierre Noël Day First Prize, Léa Kaufmann was invited to present her research at the Université Sherbrooke Symposium. She gave a presentation on "[The] Use of gene expression profiles to predict the biological activity of chemical compounds in cancer cells" in addition to attending various student presentations.