After earning his degree in immunology at the Université de Montréal, Étienne Gagnon joined Michel Desjardins’ lab in 2000 to carry out his doctoral studies in cell biology.
After completing his Ph.D., he joined Kai Wucherpfennig’s team for his postdoctoral fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, affiliated with Harvard Medical School. He joined the IRIC team in 2011.