Awards & Honours

• Canada Research Chair in the Molecular Genetics of Stem Cells, 2004–
• Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, 2008
• Stohlman Scholar, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 2007
• Scholar, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 2002-2007
• La Presse’s Personality of the Week, October 2014
• One of the discoveries of the Year by the scientific magazine Québec Science for the molecule UM171, 2014
• La Presse’s Personality of the Year in the Science 2014
• Radio-Canada’s Scientist of the Year 2014
• Discovery of the Year by the scientific magazine Québec Science for the molecule UM171, 2015
• Léo-Pariseau Award from the Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas), 2015

Training

• Postdoctoral training with Keith R. Humphries, Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Research Centre, 1996
• Residencies in internal medicine and hematology, 1992
• Ph.D. in Experimental Medicine, University of British Columbia, 1995
• M.Sc. in Immunovirology, Université de Montréal, 1989
• Ph.D. in Medicine, Université de Montréal, 1987

Research Support

• Canadian Institutes for Health Research
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research Foundation
• Génome Canada
• Génome Québec
• Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute
• Stem Cell Network
• Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé

Guy Sauvageau is a researcher and clinical practitioner, specializing in the transplant of bone marrow-derived stem cells, called hematopoietic stem cells, and in the study of the molecular mechanism involved in their self-renewal. Dr. Sauvageau’s research on the Bmi1 gene may lead to new ways to destroy tumour cells.

In tandem with his research and training activities at the IRIC, Dr. Sauvageau does bone marrow transplants at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital in Montréal. His success with the expansion of stem cells paved the way for a major project conducted jointly by the IRIC and MRH to establish a cell therapy centre.

Dr. Sauvageau holds numerous patents on applications that are under development for industrial and clinical use.

Some articles and videos

View a series of stories about research of Dr. Guy Sauvageau and his team on the multiplication of stem cells in a unit of cord blood and the molecule UM171 to treat certain types of cancer.

• Radio-Canada News, September 18, 2014: Click here (available only in French)
• La Presse’s Personality of the Year in the Science 2014, January 1, 2015: Click here (available only in French)
• Radio-Canada’s Scientist of the Year 2014 l Les Années lumière, February 1, 2015: Click here (available only in French
• Radio-Canada’s Scientist of the Year 2014 l Découverte, February 1, 2015: Click here (available only in French)
• Québec Science’s Discovery of the Year 2014, March 16, 2015: Click here (available only in French)