Events
The CRCHUM’s Scientific Day
Theme
FROM RNA BIOLOGY TO TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
A major annual event for the entire scientific community, the CRCHUM Scientific Day is an opportunity to hear about the scientific advances made by researchers, doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows.
On the agenda of this 16th edition: 8 speakers including a co-laureate Nobel Prize in medicine or Physiology working in RNA biology.
Location
CHUM Amphitheater Pierre-Péladeau
1050 Saint-Denis, Pavilion A,
Montreal, Quebec H2X 0A9
Our Keynote speaker this year:
Drew Weissman, MD, PhD.
Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research
Director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation at the Perelman School of Medicine Pennsylvania University
Co-laureate Nobel Prize in medicine or Physiology 2023
Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, is the Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research and director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation at the Perelman School of Medicine. He is recognized for his work alongside Katalin Karikó in discovering the modified mRNA technology, which has launched a new era of vaccine and therapeutic development. Their mRNA research breakthrough has been used in both the BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines and has revolutionized the field of vaccine development. Dr. Weissman’s current research focuses on developing a pan-coronavirus vaccine to stop the next coronavirus epidemic, a universal flu vaccine, cancer therapeutics, a vaccine to prevent herpes, as well as developing in vivo gene therapy to allow worldwide use and a variety of protein therapeutics delivered with mRNA-LNPs. He has recently expanded his efforts in building scientific and medical equity and is developing the full RNA-LNP ecosystem of development, testing, and use in low and middle income countries.
Dr. Weissman earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biochemistry and enzymology from Brandeis University in 1981 and his M.D. and Ph.D. in immunology and microbiology in 1987 at Boston University School of Medicine. Following a residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, he took a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, where he worked with Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Dr. Weissman hold many patents and has published over 400 papers. He has been recognized with numerous awards including the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, and the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.
A flagship science outreach event of the organization since 2010, the CRCHUM’s Scientific Day is built around lectures given by researchers of exceptional renown.
Depending on the subject, a symposium is organized with oral presentations by researchers from the CRCHUM and other research centres.
Every year, more than 250 people attend the event.
Attending the CRCHUM’s Scientific Day provides an opportunity to meet inspiring figures in the field of health research.
- Over the years, the Research Centre has had the pleasure to welcome: several Nobel laureates: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Andrew Z. Fire, Lee Hartwell, Jules Hoffmann, Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, Dr. Ferid Murad and Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe;
- Renowned scientists: Dr. Dan H. Barouch, Dr. Pierre Corvol, Fabiola Gianotti, Dr. Axel Kahn, Giles Yeo, Mona Nemer and Farah Alibay.