Mathieu Quesnel-Vallières
Assistant Professor
- Ï㽶ÊÓƵ splicing
- Transcriptomics
- Immunotherapy
- Cancer Biology
- Personalized Medicine
Mathieu's research has always focused on the link between Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and disease. He first completed a Master's degree working on the evolution of HIV-1 and HCV, two Ï㽶ÊÓƵ viruses, in Prof. Hugo Soudeyns' lab at CHU Sainte-Justine. He then completed a Ph.D. on the regulation of alternative Ï㽶ÊÓƵ splicing in the laboratories of Prof. Benjamin Blencowe and Prof. Sabine Cordes at the University of Toronto. These studies established for the first time a causal link between Ï㽶ÊÓƵ splicing defects and autism disorders. During his postdoctoral training with Prof. Kristen Lynch and Prof. Yoseph Barash at the University of Pennsylvania, he developed and applied bioinformatics tools for transcriptomic analyses to identify novel immunotherapy targets in cancer. His lab is now further pursuing this research to refine and expand the molecular profiling of therapeutic targets, and experimentally validate candidates.