Education

Undergraduate
Universite Laval (1982), Mathematics
Graduate School
Mcgill University (1987), Mathematics
Undergraduate
Mcgill University (1990), Biochemistry
Graduate School
University of Montreal (1998), Molecular Biology

Research Interest

  • Bioinformatics
  • Lung Cancer
  • Sequencing analysis

Publications

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Silencing of GRHL2 induces epithelial‑to‑mesenchymal transition in lung cancer cell lines with different effects on proliferation and clonogenic growth.
Kawabe N, Matsuoka K, Komeda K, Muraki N, Takaba M, Togami Y, Ito Y, Yamada M, Sunaga N, Girard L, Minna JD, Cai L, Xie Y, Tanaka I, Morise M, Sato M, Oncol Lett 2023 Sep 26 3 391
Somatic rearrangements causing oncogenic ectodomain deletions of FGFR1 in squamous cell lung cancer.
Malchers F, Nogova L, van Attekum MH, Maas L, Brägelmann J, Bartenhagen C, Girard L, Bosco G, Dahmen I, Michels S, Weeden CE, Scheel AH, Meder L, Golfmann K, Schuldt P, Siemanowski J, Rehker J, Merkelbach-Bruse S, Menon R, Gautschi O, Heuckmann JM, Brambilla E, Asselin-Labat ML, Persigehl T, Minna JD, Walczak H, Ullrich RT, Fischer M, Reinhardt HC, Wolf J, Büttner R, Peifer M, George J, Thomas RK, J Clin Invest 2023 Aug
Acquired Cross-resistance in Small Cell Lung Cancer due to Extrachromosomal DNA Amplification of MYC paralogs.
Choudhuri SP, Girard L, Lim JYS, Wise JF, Freitas B, Yang D, Wong E, Hamilton S, Chien VD, Gilbreath C, Zhong J, Phat S, Myers DT, Christensen CL, Stanzione M, Wong KK, Farago AF, Meador CB, Dyson NJ, Lawrence MS, Wu S, Drapkin BJ, bioRxiv 2023 Jun
ASCL1-ERK1/2 Axis: ASCL1 restrains ERK1/2 via the dual specificity phosphatase DUSP6 to promote survival of a subset of neuroendocrine lung cancers.
Martin-Vega A, Earnest S, Augustyn A, Wichaidit C, Gazdar A, Girard L, Peyton M, Kollipara RK, Minna JD, Johnson JE, Cobb MH, bioRxiv 2023 Jun
Single-cell transcriptomic analysis uncovers intratumoral heterogeneity and drug-tolerant persister in ALK-rearranged lung adenocarcinoma.
Kwok HH, Li H, Yang J, Deng J, Lee NC, Au TW, Sit AK, Hsin MK, Ma SK, Cheung LW, Girard L, Fujimoto J, Wistuba II, Gao B, Minna JD, Lam DC, Cancer Commun (Lond) 2023 Jun
Tumor loss-of-function mutations in STK11/LKB1 induce cachexia.
Iyengar P, Gandhi AY, Granados J, Guo T, Gupta A, Yu J, Llano EM, Zhang F, Gao A, Kandathil A, Williams D, Gao B, Girard L, Malladi VS, Shelton JM, Evers BM, Hannan R, Ahn C, Minna JD, Infante RE, JCI Insight 2023 Apr 8 8
Glucocorticoid mediated inhibition of LKB1 mutant non-small cell lung cancers.
Huffman KE, Li LS, Carstens R, Park H, Girard L, Avila K, Wei S, Kollipara R, Timmons B, Sudderth J, Bendris N, Kim J, Villalobos P, Fujimoto J, Schmid S, Deberardinis RJ, Wistuba I, Heymach J, Kittler R, Akbay EA, Posner B, Wang Y, Lam S, Kliewer SA, Mangelsdorf DJ, Minna JD, Front Oncol 2023 13 1025443