IRIC - Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer

Published on July 2, 2015

Vincent Archambault, Principal Investigator at IRIC and assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Nuclear Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, has received the 2015 GE Healthcare New Investigator Award at the 58th annual conference of the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences (CSMB) held June 14 to 17, 2015, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

This award is presented annually to a young Canadian researcher in the field of biochemistry or molecular and cellular biology, and acknowledges outstanding achievement on the part of scientists with fewer than ten years’ independent research experience. Special attention is afforded to independent thought and the originality of the work.

“We’re very pleased that the CSMB is recognizing the impact of Vincent Archambault’s work,” commented IRIC chief executive officer Michel Bouvier. “In addition to conducting cutting-edge work in cancer biology, Vincent is a talented scientist and teacher committed to getting the word out about the importance of life sciences.”

Vincent Archambault heads the Cell Cycle Regulation research unit. In collaboration with the members of his team he studies the molecular mechanisms that regulate cell-division cycle progression, with the goal of identifying potential therapeutic targets for cancer. In recent years he has contributed to a great advance in the understanding of the cell cycle as a co-discoverer of the Greatwall kinase and its important role in mitosis regulation.