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LDI

The Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research

The research arm of the Jewish General Hospital

The LDI is among Canada’s leading health research institutes. Through their fundamental and clinical investigations, our scientists and clinicians make significant discoveries, lead important provincial and national research programs, and train emerging scientists who, themselves, are recognized for the excellence of their work, contributing to the health and well-being of patients in Quebec, Canada, and around the world.

Empowering research excellence and innovation

At the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (LDI), equity, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of who we are. We are committed to provide people working in the LDI community with exemplary, highest quality of work and learning environments that are healthy, equitable and inclusive, free from all forms of discrimination and where every person can feel welcomed and recognized, but also involved and contributing to the present and the future of the LDI.

Researchers

Discover our 200+ regular and associated investigators and their research, as well as the many services we provide across the spectrum of the research process.

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Trainees

We offer the 250+ graduate and postdoctoral students who come to the LDI each year an open, collaborative, and multidisciplinary training environment that fosters excellence.

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Patients

The close collaboration between researchers, clinicians, and patients is at the basis of the most successful research programs and clinical trials at the LDI.

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Empowering research excellence and innovation

At the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (LDI), equity, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of who we are. We are committed to provide people working in the LDI community with exemplary, highest quality of work and learning environments that are healthy, equitable and inclusive, free from all forms of discrimination and where every person can feel welcomed and recognized, but also involved and contributing to the present and the future of the LDI.

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Lorraine Chalifour

Chalifour, Lorraine

Molecular & Regenerative Medicine

Cardiac surgery, Echocardiography, Gut microbiome and metabolome, Inflammation, Myocardial infarction, Resistant starch diet, Sex-dependent response, Total western diet
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Lin, Rongtuan

Molecular & Regenerative Medicine

5’pppRNA, Antiviral response, Interferon signaling, RIG-I, TRAF7, Viral escape
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Grant, Lars

Clinical Epidemiology

Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Data, Emergency Department Operations, Emergency Department Triage, Machine learning
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Donna Senger

Senger, Donna

Cancer

Brain tumor microenvironment, Cancer, Drug discovery, Drug therapeutics, Fundamental research, Immunology, Innate immune cell recruitment, Neuroscience, Organ-selective metastasis, p75 neurotrophin receptor (CD271) in tumorigenesis, Pediatrics
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Ana Miriam Velly

Velly, Ana Miriam

Clinical Epidemiology

Acute to chronic pain transition, Biomarkers, Epidemiology, NCOHR, Opioids, Orofacial Pain, Pain, Pain management, Pharmacoepidemiology, Randomized clinical trials
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Guillaume Fontaine

Fontaine, Guillaume

Clinical Epidemiology

Hepatitis C, HIV, Implementation research, Implementation science, Infectious diseases, Knowlegde translation, Viral hepatitis
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Phyllis Zelkowitz

Zelkowitz, Phyllis

Emeritus

Infertility, Maternal mental health, Perinatal depression, Perinatal mental health, Reproductive health
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Ashley Wazana

Wazana, Ashley

Psychosocial aspects of disease

Computational innovation, Developmental and prenatal origins of mental health, Developmental psychopathology, Gene-environment interactions, Perinatal mental health, Positive mental wellbeing, Prenatal programming, Resilience
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