Looking for a supervisor ?
More than 140 P.I.s and Professors are members of the McGill Regenerative Medicine Network. If you want to study in a specific field or in a specific department, the table below allows you to identify the main research area of many P.I.s who are currently accepting new students for 2024-2025.
This list is updated in early September each year.
| PI’s Name | Department | Main research interests | Website | Stem cell type/source | Contact |
Mariane
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School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, RI-MUHC | Angiogenesis, Placental vascular organoids, Pre-eclampsia, Exercise rehabilitation | Profile | Endothelial Progenitor Cells from Peripheral blood or Placentas | |
Michel
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Anatomy and Cell Biology / IRCM | Neurodevelopment, cell fate, neural stem cells, cell therapy, neuroprotection | Profile | ||
Renzo
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Surgery | IPSCs, Myocardial Regeneration | Profile | IPSCs: Human-derived, peripheral blood | |
Guojun
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Biomedical Engineering | Drug delivery, Nanomedicine, Cancer immunotherapy, Immunoengineering, Genome editing, Biomaterials, Medical device | Lab Website | Embryonic stem (ES) cells, trophoblast stem (TS) cells | |
Simone
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Surgery (Urology) | Liquid biopsies, Prostate cancer progression, Intra-tumoral heterogeneity, Cell subtypes (luminal, neuroendocrine, stem), Biomarkers | Profile | IPSCs: Human-derived, peripheral blood | |
Katie
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Biochemistry | Epidermal stem cells in health and disease, intravital imaging, signaling dynamics, cutaneous disease | Lab Website | Epidermal stem cells (in vivo mouse models) | |
Inés
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Medicine | Human stem and progenitor cells, autoimmune diseases, immunology | Profile | Human adipose tissue/umbilical cord derived mesenchymal stromal cells, human hematopoietic stem cells | |
Colin
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Department of Human Genetics, Lady Davis Institute | Skeletal muscle regeneration in health and disease; stem cells; translational control of gene expression | Lab Website | Adult muscle stem cells, myogenic progenitors derived from mouse and human pluripotent stem cells | |
Daniel
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Obstetrics and Gynecology | Embryo-uterine communications and placental development | Profile | ||
Kolja
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Pediatrics | Leukemic stem cell regulation, hematopoietic stem cell regulation, drug discovery, pre-leukemia | Lab Website | Leukemic stem cells from acute myeloid leukemia; hematopoietic stem cells from donated cord blood | |
Allen
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Bioengineering | Mechanotransduction, Differentiation, Active forces and mechanical properties of cells, Nuclear mechanics | Lab Website | iPSCs | |
Rahul
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Surgery | Bone healing, inorganic polyphosphates, osteoimmunology | Profile | Bone marrow | |
Terry
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Pharmacology and Therapeutics | G protein-coupled receptors, cellular signalling, cardiovascular disease, drug discovery, iPSC-based disease models | Lab Website – Facebook | iPSCs | |
Corinne
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Chemical Engineering; Biomedical Engineering | Bioprinting, Diabetes, Vascularization, Bioprocess engineering, Cell therapy, Stem cells & organoid manufacturing, Industry projects | Lab Website | Pluripotent stem cells; endothelial progenitor cells | |
Wei-Hsiang
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Centre for Research in Neuroscience | Neural stem cell and non-human primates/human iPSC models of Autism, epilepsy, and neuropsychiatric disorders | Lab Website | Neural stem cell, iPSCs from humans and non-human primates | |
David
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Biomedical Engineering | Microfluidics, 3D Bioprinting, Single Exosome Detection, Circulating Tumour Cells, Spatial Secretomics | Lab Website | Pluripotent stem cells to midbrain organoids/ neuronal progenitor cells | |
Claudia
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Human Genetics | Genomics, single-cell biology, boinformatics | Lab Website | ||
Antonis
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Oncology | mRNA translation, integrated stress response, transcription factor STAT1, breast cancer, lung cancer, transgenic mice, anti-tumor therapy | Profile | Lung and breast cancer stem cells | |
David
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Surgery | Prostate cancer, nutrition/diet, epigenetics, animal models, translational research | Profile | ||
Larry
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Pediatric Respiratory | Lung inflammation, lipid nanoparticles, nucleic acid therapeutics | Profile | iPSCs from peripheral blood to generate respiratory epithelial cells | |
David
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Human Genetics, Microbiology & Immunology | Epigenomics, Transcription, Immunology, Infectious diseases, Inflammatory diseases | Lab Website | Hematopoietic stem cells | |
Jianyu
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Mechanical Engineering | Biomaterial, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, mechanics | Lab Website | Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) | |
Nicole
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School of Communication Sciences and Disorders | Upper airway diseases, head and neck cancer, angiogenesis, tissue engineering, biomaterials, organ-on-a-chip, computational medicine, iPSCs | Lab Website | iPSCs | |
Jun-Li
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Medicine and Pathology | Growth factors, cell replication, cell apoptosis, pancreatic islets, transgenic mice, gene regulation, insulin secretion, CCN5, WISP2, insulin-like growth factors, Reg proteins | Profile | ||
Marc
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Dentistry, Anatomy & Cell Biology | Biomineralization, mineralized extracellular matrices, bone and tooth cells | Profile | Bone stem cells MC3T3-E1 pre-osteoblasts | |
Luc
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Mechanical Engineering | Tissue engineering, biomaterials, voice biomechanics | Profile | Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell (UC-MSCs) | |
Rosaire
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Mechanical Engineering | Biomechanics, cardiovascular modelling, medical device design | Profile | ||
Christopher
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Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Goodman Cancer Center | Microscale tissue engineering, mechanobiology, placenta, brain, breast cancer | Lab Website | ||
Fackson
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Surgery | Tissue engineering of intervertebral discs, osteoarthritis | Profile | Stem cells, chondrocytes, intervertebral disc cells | |
Showan N.
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Mining and Materials Engineering | Biomaterials; Tissue Engineering; Biofabrication; Mineralization | Lab Website | ||
Anastasia
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Physiology | Hematopoietic stem cells, differentiation of blood and immune cells, regulation of gene expression, chromatin and epigenetics, innate immunity and inflammatory disorders, B lymphocyte biology and humoral immune response | Lab Website | Hematopoietic stem cells | |
Steven
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Surgery | Islet transplantation, extracellular vesicles, Treg, Th17, inflammation | Lab Website | ||
William
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Biochemistry | Pluripotency, stem cells, placenta, developmental biology, epigenetics | Lab Website | Human embryonic stem cells and placental stem cells | |
Anie
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Surgery | Skin, cartilage, repair, regeneration, fibrosis, squamous cell carcinoma | Lab Website | ||
Jean-Pierre
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Medicine | CTL response to HIV, virologically induced cancer | Profile | Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (UC-MSCs) | |
David
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Neurology | Inflammation, synaptic plasticity, neurodegeneration, autism, homeostasis | Profile | iPSCs | |
Ursula
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Physiology | Aging, Senolytics, Cell stress, Nano-bio interactions, Therapeutic and diagnostic nanoparticles | Profile | Cancer stem cells, mesenchymal stromal cells | |
Maryam
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Biomedical Engineering | Biomaterials and biointerfaces for regenerative medicine, nanomedicine and biorecognition systems | Lab Website | ASCs, iPSCs | |
Jean
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Surgery | Transplantation, Renal and Liver, cirrhosis, cancer immunology, metabolic syndrome, Il17 and RORC | Profile | Umbilical Wharton’s Jelly Stem Cells | |
Simon
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Dentistry | Tissue engineering, stem cells, regenerative medicine, salivary gland, cancer | Profile | Mesenchymal stem cells: dental, oral, adipose, salivary gland, bone marrow | |
Jean-François
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Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Parkinson’s disease, structural biology, proteomics | Lab Website | Human iPSC-derived neurons | |
Donald
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Infectious Diseases (Medicine), Medical Microbiology, Human Genetics, Experimental Medicine | Genetic susceptibility to Infectious Diseases | Profile | ||
Sabrina
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Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery | Genomics and Molecular Pathology of Head and Neck Cancer; Precision/Personalized Medicine in Oncology; Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis; Drug Resistance Mechanisms in Cancer Treatment; Translational Research in Cancer Therapeutics. | Profile | ||
Yojiro
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Goodman Cancer Research Centre, Department of Human Genetics | Fallopian tube homeostasis, Ovarian Cancer, Evolution, Microcirculation | Lab Website | ||
Ma’n H.
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Human Genetics | Bioethics, genomics, law, society | Website |