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  • June 1, 2012

    Pierre Thibault honored with the 2011 Maxxam Award

    The Canadian Society for Chemistry recognizes the IRIC PI for his work

  • March 20, 2012

    Michel Bouvier hailed as one of the top researchers in the country by the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences

    The IRIC researcher is honored with the NRC Research Press Senior Investigator award

  • March 14, 2012

    The Canada Research Chairs Program Grants $2 million to IRIC

    One new chair awarded, another renewed

  • February 13, 2012

    Histone Acetylation and Cancer: Challenging the Dogma

    DNA is usually represented as a long linear molecule (the famous double helix). In fact, in the cell nucleus, DNA is generally spooled around histone proteins to form more compact structures called nucleosomes. Each nucleosome contains DNA and an octamer of histones composed of two molecules of each type of…

  • October 28, 2011

    Keeping cells in shape

    Scientists from IRIC make the cover of the prestigious scientific journal The Journal of Cell Biology with a recent discovery on cell division…

  • October 18, 2011

    IRIC Inaugurates its Medicinal Chemistry Facility

    The infrastructure will allow the Institute to accelerate the development and the commercialization of innovative therapies against cancer

  • October 14, 2011

    Immunopeptidome, a window on the health status of cells

    IRIC researchers show how to increase the immune system’s efficiency

  • October 14, 2011

    Localized delivery of an anti-cancer drug by remote-controlled microcarriers

    The tour de force is the result of a collaboration between researchers at Polytechnique Montreal and IRIC

  • October 13, 2011

    The Canada Research Chairs Program Grants over $3 million to IRIC

    Three IRIC Principal Investigators have their Chairs renewed

  • September 21, 2011

    Towards a better understanding of cell division

    The NSERC funds two IRIC research projects

  • September 19, 2011

    Katherine Borden Honored by the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation

    The IRIC Principal Investigator receives the 2011 Distinguished Scientist Award

  • June 30, 2011

    IRIC honors its donors

    On June 16, IRIC, hosted its fourth annual cocktail dedicated to its donors. Set in the Morris and Rosalind Goodman…

  • June 27, 2011

    A great success for IRIC at the 2011 Eureka Festival!

    Researchers and students of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal participated in the 2011 Eureka Festival. Taking place from June 17 to 19, on the …

  • January 10, 2011

    A Discovery by Marc Therrien Honoured by Québec Science

    The recent breakthrough by Marc Therrien and his team of a new mechanism that controls the transmission of an abnormal signal at the origin of several cancers was chosen as one of the top 10 discover…

  • November 15, 2010

    IRIC Welcomes its 26th Principal Investigator

    IRIC has recently named Dr. Brian Wilhelm as Principal Investigator of the High-Throughput Genomics research unit. He is also Research Assistant …

  • October 25, 2010

    Trang Hoang Honoured by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada

    Trang Hoang, Principal Investigator at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) and Full Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de …

  • October 22, 2010

    Étienne Caron Named Star Researcher in the “Ça mérite d’être reconnu!” Competition Presented by the Rendez-vous du savoir

    The young doctoral student dreams of designing a cancer vaccine

  • October 19, 2010

    Discovery of a Mechanism Controlling the Expression of a Protein Involved in Numerous Cancers

    This mechanism is a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of some of the deadliest cancers

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