Richard Marcotte

Ultimate precision medicine!

Delighted to have played a small part to ensure our patient from @bcchresearch.bsky.social was able to receive this remarkable curative treatment.

Kudos to Dr. Elie Haddad for launching this trial in Canada.

@nejm.org @genomecanada.ca @genomebc.bsky.social

CIHR funding rate: 13.6%.
Early 2000s: 30%+.

Canada’s new $1.7B Impact+ program recruits talent — but without increased Tri-Council base funding, we risk further strain on an already stretched system.

We’re calling for $1B over 5 years.
Support here: tinyurl.com/33c5av46

SLAMF6 as a drug-targetable suppressor of T cell immunity against cancer - Nature SLAMF6 functions exclusively as a T cell inhibitory receptor, which is triggered by cis homotypic interactions.

Nature research paper: SLAMF6 as a drug-targetable suppressor of T cell immunity against cancer

go.nature.com/4rOf30b

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My group at UBC received an allocation from the school to apply for the Canada Impact+ Training Awards (postdoc). Everything is moving fast but please email me in 48 hours with a CV if you are outside Canada and interested😎
Yachie lab: yachie-lab.org
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Are you a fermentation researcher outside of Canada ? We're looking for a Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Sustainable Food Fermentation Systems. Tenured at Associate or Full Professor. Come join @umanitoba.bsky.social the Harvard of the Prairies ! #share viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...

Scientific Director - Biomedical Research Institute in Montreal, Canada - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Centre d'innovation biomédicale - Université de Montréal | 12851492 The Courtois Institute for Biomedical Innovation (CI²B) is seeking a distinguished scientist to steer its development.

🌟🫱🏼‍🫲🏻Join the fun & scientific excellence of Montreal and become a primary partner of Centre de recherche du CHUM (CRCHUM) [please repost].

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Job alert! Assistant professor position in the Department of Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto). Amazing department and city. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share.

#CIHR reviewer in training program: apply by Feb 4 to participate in review of Spring 2026 Project grants.

See cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/52291.html...

Western University is looking for a Canada Research Chair (CRC)
Tier 1 in Metabolomics. We are intent on building capacity in this system and the ideal candidate will help build infrastructure and mentor junior faculty.

Please see the job ad at: uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

Good news. The government of Canada has recently launched a new initiative to recruit top-level scientists, postdocs and graduate students to Canada. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
Please consider joining our neuroscience community at the Université de Montréal!

The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Cancer Immunology.
#JobAlert #ScienceJobs

Canada Impact+ Research Chairs

@sfu.ca is hiring Canada Impact+ Research Chairs. Research areas include health, including biotechnology; clean technology and resource value chains; environment, climate resilience and the Arctic; democratic and community resilience. Candidates must full Profs or Associate 2 years from promotion.

Associate Professor (tenure) or Professor (tenure) Dr. Connie Eaves Chair in Cancer Stem Cell Research Academic Job Category Faculty Bargaining Job Title Associate Professor (tenure) or Professor (tenure) Dr. Connie Eaves Chair in Cancer Stem Cell Research Department School of Biomedical Engineering | ...

UBC and BC Cancer are recruiting a cancer stem cell faculty member at the Associate Professor or Professor rank for the new Connie Eaves Chair in Cancer Stem Cell Research. A great position recognizing a giant in the field. Please share. #Vancouver
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#JobAlert - Canada Research Chair (CRC) – Tier 1 Chair in Metabolomics for Novel Therapeutics at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario.

Info here: csmb-scbm.ca/canada-resea...

📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University!

healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati...

1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies
2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher

Please share widely and reach out for questions!

🧬🎉Join us on Dec 17th for our last session of 2025! 🎉🧬Two fantastic talks on transcriptional regulation:
🔬JB Lalanne on developmental enhancers (and starting a lab in 2025?)
🔬 @rberrens.bsky.social on transposable elements in development
📋Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

Nature’s laboratory - Works in Progress Magazine Millions of years of evolution have given us genomes that are like giant datasets for drug development. Finally, we are learning how to study them.

“With 3 billion base pairs and nearly 8 billion humans alive today, any mutation that is compatible with life and reproduction likely exists in at least one person’s genome somewhere in the world.”

Awesome piece by Veera Rajagopal on how genetics has transformed drug discovery.

🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with Taipale Lab, Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto | 12849004 The Taipale lab in the Donnelly CCBR and University of Toronto is looking for a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow

We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on induced proximity 🤜🤛 and functional genomics! Join our team in Toronto 🇨🇦 to tackle major challenges in oncology and neurodegeneration. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Associate Professor (tenure) or Professor (tenure) Dr. Connie Eaves Chair in Cancer Stem Cell Research Academic Job Category Faculty Bargaining Job Title Associate Professor (tenure) or Professor (tenure) Dr. Connie Eaves Chair in Cancer Stem Cell Research Department School of Biomedical Engineering | ...

Apply for the 'Dr. Connie Eaves Chair in Cancer Cell Research' at UBC. Come join the dynamic research community in Vancouver 🇨🇦!

Tenured Tier 1 Canada Research Chair / Tenure-Track or Tenured Faculty Position supported by the Bruce Mitchell gift (Mitchell Chair). – Canadian Association for Neuroscience Canadian Association for Neuroscience

New opportunity at Queen's University: Tenured Tier 1 Canada Research Chair / Tenure-Track or Tenured Faculty Position supported by the Bruce Mitchell gift (Mitchell Chair). can-acn.org/tenured-tier... #neurojobs

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Novembre est le mois de la sensibilisation au radon : des actions pour réduire l’impact du radon sur la santé En ce mois de la sensibilisation au radon, la Direction de santé publique du Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de Chaudière-Appalaches rappelle quelques faits concernant les risqu...

En ce mois de la sensibilisation au radon, la direction de santé publique rappelle quelques faits concernant les risques et les conséquences que peuvent entrainer ce gaz radioactif sur la santé de la population et ce qui peut être fait pour détecter sa présence dans son domicile.

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Generating long deletions across the genome with pooled paired prime editing screens Engineered deletions are a powerful probe for studying genome architecture, function, and regulation. Yet, the lack of effective methods to create them in large numbers and at multi-kilobase scale has...

New 🧬✂️ pre-print! We show that paired prime editing can efficiently generate large deletions — even >1 Mb — with high precision and at scale. We use this to perform the first pooled prime deletion screen across the human genome.

🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A short thread (by Juliane Weller)👇

Just remember, the Liberals supported this too. If they think this will attract more researchers to Canada, they are smoking the dope they legalized. And once again, just like animal research, why is it @picardonhealth.bsky.social who needs to raise this publicly and not @u15ca.bsky.social

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade

a gross parliamentary overreach — article by @picardonhealth.bsky.social in the globe and mail; #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/91587b9...

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SCIENTIST – Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology Program - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children - Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program | 12848200 Discovery-based and/or translational research using model organism genetics and/or stem cell and organoid platforms to study paediatric cancer.

Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...