Sylvie Mader
Montreal, Quebec
Position: Full Professor at UdeM – Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer
Organization: Université de Montréal
After training at the École normale supérieure de Paris, the Université de Paris VI and at the Institut Pasteur, Sylvie Mader joined Pierre Chambon’s team at the Louis Pasteur Université in Strasbourg for a Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1987, which she completed in 1991. She then joined Nahum Sonenberg’s team, at McGill University, for postdoctoral training where she brought to light a control mechanism of translation involving eIF4E. She joined the Université de Montréal in 1995 and was recruited in 2005 by the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, where she heads the Molecular Targeting in Breast Cancer research unit.
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Sylvie Mader and her team try to identify the causes of the diversity of mammary tumors and how they impact tumor responses to the drugs used in breast cancer treatment. The group strives to better understand drug resistance mechanisms and to identify new therapeutic targets and strategies to optimize breast cancer treatment.
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Sector: Academia (Post Secondary)
English proficiency: Read, Write, Speak
French proficiency: Read, Write, Speak
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Gender: Female
Demographic: European / White