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Manuela Santos, Roy Hajjar and Carole Richard.

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Colorectal Cancer Surgery: Adjusting the Gut Flora to Help Healing

16 March 2022

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Dr. Routy's team proved that castalagin, a polyphenol contained in the Camu Camu fruit, modifies the intestinal microbiome, improving the response to immunotherapy even for cancers resistant to this type of treatment.

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Cancer treatment: a berry from Brazil helps out

2 February 2022

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Increasing the capacity of the immune system to kill cancer cells

17 January 2022

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A tiny biological machine called the proteasome exists in every cell in the body. This machine is responsible for breaking down and removing unwanted, malformed or excess proteins, a vital process for the proliferation and normal functioning of the cells.

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Joining forces to prevent cancer

30 November 2021

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Cellular aging: a basic paradox elucidated

9 November 2021

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In HER2-positive breast cancer, a gene called HER2 is expressed that promotes an aggressive form of the disease.

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Promising new research on aggressive breast cancer

13 July 2021

Article

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A personalized anti-cancer vaccine that works in mice

11 May 2021

Press release

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Artificial intelligence is driving research at the IRIC

29 April 2021

Article

Discovered at IRIC, UM171 was developed as a collaboration between a team of chemists led by UdeM associate professor of chemistry Anne Marinier and a group of biologists under the supervision of Guy Sauvageau. It was named in 2014 in honour of Université de Montréal.

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UM171: the molecule that keeps on giving

12 January 2021

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Geneviève Deblois et David Knapp

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Geneviève Deblois and David Knapp become IRIC researchers

4 June 2020

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Scientists from Université de Montréal used advanced microscopy techniques to see single molecules of telomerase in living cells.

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Tracking cancer’s immortality factor

3 June 2020

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A cancer vaccine developed by IRIC is voted 2019 Discovery of the Year by Québec Science

14 May 2020

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Capping a medical adventure that began in 1993, CHU Sainte-Justine children's hospital has just performed its 1,000th bone-marrow transplant, on a 12-year-old girl.

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A thousand transplants and counting

12 March 2020

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HeLa cell expressing the proximity interaction probe BirA*-Flag-active RAC1. Actin filaments are in green and biotinylated proteins are in magenta.

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Gone fishin' ... for proteins

23 December 2019

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22 adult patients with advanced blood cancer participated in a clinical trial. The results far exceeded expectations.

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Blood cancers: a “new generation” stem cell transplant

5 November 2019

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A new cell therapy approach that boosts the immune response of T lymphocytes to malignant tumours has been discovered.

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Cancer treatment: HMR researcher makes breakthrough immunotherapy discovery

24 October 2019

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Major breakthrough in the treatment of leukemia

8 July 2019

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Signature of an ineffective immune response to cancer revealed

20 June 2019

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Researchers from the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) have developed a two-step combination therapy to destroy cancer cells.

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A “one-two punch” to wipe out cancerous ovarian cells

11 June 2019

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Canadian researchers have discovered a molecular indicator of a mechanism that drives cancer progression, giving doctors the possibility of using precision medicine, that is, choosing which patients will respond to a particular anticancer drug.

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Choosing the right drug to fight cancer

4 June 2019

Press release

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Recovery twice as hard for survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

29 May 2019

Press release

Monique Russier

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A molecule that saves lives

16 May 2019

Press release

At Université de Montréal, IRIC's researchers had some good news to announce on World Cancer Day.

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10 years of research lead the way to more effective treatment of a fatal cancer

22 February 2019

Article

Researchers have shown that immunotherapy treatments against cancer could reduce the amount of virus that persists in people on triple therapy.

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Using anti-cancer immunotherapy to fight HIV

19 February 2019

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Major breakthrough in quest for cancer vaccine

6 December 2018

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Interleukin IL-22, a new target to inhibit the progression of liver disease

26 October 2018

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The body's defence mechanisms: Teamwork is key for cancer-fighting proteins

25 October 2018

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Working at night is associated with a greater risk of breast cancer in women

13 September 2018

Article

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Regular beer consumption linked to higher prostate cancer risk

5 September 2018

Article

This discovery brings hope for developing more effective therapies to combat one of the most prevalent and dangerous cancers in women.

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Understanding drug resistance in ovarian cancer

23 August 2018

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