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Guy Rouleau

Academic title(s): 

Professor

Guy Rouleau
Branch: 
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Department: 
Neurology and Neurosurgery
Areas of expertise: 
  • Human Genetics
  • Neurological Disorders
  • Neurodevelopment disorders
  • Cellular modeling of genetic variants linked to disease
  • Analysis of sequencing -Omic data [Whole genome seq, Ï㽶ÊÓƵseq (bulk and sinle-cell)
Biography: 

Dr. Guy Rouleau is Director of The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital), Chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, Director of the Department of Neuroscience of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Health Centre, and co-founder of the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute. In 2022, he was elected First Vice-President of the World Federation of Neurology. For almost 35 years now, Dr. Guy Rouleau and his team have focused on identifying the genes causing several neurological and psychiatric diseases, including autism, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, hereditary neuropathies, epilepsy and schizophrenia, as well as providing a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms that lead to these disease symptoms. Among Dr. Rouleau’s main achievements are his contribution to the identification of dozens of diseasecausing genes and his discovery of new mutational mechanisms. Dr. Rouleau has published nearly 1,000 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has been quoted more than 110 000 times (Google Scholar). He has supervised well over a hundred students at the Masters, PhD and Post-doctoral levels in addition to receiving numerous awards for his contribution to science and society. As co-founder of the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute, Dr. Rouleau is pioneering a new way of doing research by transforming The Neuro into the first academic institution to adopt Open Science principles in order to accelerate discovery and benefit patients and society.

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