IRIC - Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer

Published on December 10, 2014

Diana Paola Granados, postdoctoral fellow at IRIC

Diana Paola Granados, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal, is the winner of a prize for a poster presented at the “Genomics: The Power and the Promise” conference organized by Genome Canada and the Gairdner Foundation this past November. The distinction carries a $1,000 cash award.

Ms. Granados’s poster, entitled “Discovery of Minor Histocompatibility Antigens for Leukemia Immunotherapy with a Novel Proteogenomics Approach,” presents a study whose goal is to develop a personalized approach for the treatment of leukemia.

Dr. Claude Perreault, Principal Investigator at IRIC and professor in the Department of Medicine at the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Medicine, supervises the work of Ms. Granados and stresses that he is “privileged to include Diana Paola among the members of my team. Her determination to discover the connections between the ‘genomic self’ and the ‘immunological self’ is exceptional. I’m convinced that Diana Paola’s proteogenomic strategy will make it possible to identify prime targets for cancer immunotherapy.”