Prof. Sylvain Meloche is a principal investigator at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at the University of Montreal. After doctoral studies in molecular pharmacology at the University of Montreal, he completed a postdoctoral internship in immunology at the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, and then a second in biochemistry at the University of Nice in France. In 1992, he began his teaching career and established his research activities at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Center. Now he is also a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Montreal.
Dr. Marc Bilodeau is a Professor of Medicine at Universite de Montreal in Quebec. He graduated from Universite Laval and completed his internal medicine training at McGill University and his gastroenterology training at Hospital Saint-Luc at Universite de Montreal. He was awarded on a Medical Research Council Fellowship to study Liver Cell Biology at INSERM U-49 in Rennes, France. He is currently head of the Service d’hepatologie du CHUM and a researcher at the Centre de recherche du CHUM where he chairs the Laboratoire d’hepatologie cellulaire. He is an Associate Editor for the Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology. He is co-chair of the Examination Board in Gastroenterology of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and is a reviewer for many medical journals. He is a member of the Canadian and American Associations for the Study of Liver Disease.
