SCT Team  /  Dr. Lambert Busque

Dr. Lambert Busque

Titles

• Associate Professor of Medicine, Université de Montréal.
• Haematologist, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital.
• Clinical-researcher, Centre de recherche HMR.
• Medical Director of the laboratories, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital.
• Director, molecular biology diagnostic laboratory, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital.

Training

• Ph.D. Medicine: Université de Montréal (1986).
• National Board of Medical Examiners (USA), 1987.
• American Board of Internal Medicine (USA), 1989.
• Fellow, Royal College of Physician and Surgeon, Internal medicine 1990.
• Fellow Royal College of Physician and Surgeon, Haematology, 1992.
• Fellowship in molecular biology : Harvard University under the direction of Dr Gary Gilliland, 1994.

Research and teaching

Main domain of research

• Cancer/oncology (leukemia).
• Molecular cell biology (genes : structure, organisation).
• Pharmacogenetics.

Research interest

• Location identification by mapping and cloning of the loci associated with the determiners of the length of télomères in blood cells .
• Identification of quantitative features (QTL) associated to the production of blood cells.
• Identification of the role of causal mutations in myeloproliferative disorders (JAK2).

Subventions de recherche

• Program director: 2.
• Principal investigator: 3.
• Co-investigator: 4.

Scientific contributions

• Chromosome X inactivation in hematopoïesis.
• FCI Pharmacogenomics (co-investigator).
• Program of genetic studies on a coheort of population.
• Evaluation of the molecular response of CML patient on Gleevec.

Influential

Reviewer

• Blood (Journal of American Society of Hematology)

Scientific presentations

• Groupe d’études en oncologie du Québec (GÉOQ).
• Grand Rouds in Hematology (10).

Committees

• Member Haematology program committee, residency training, Université de Montréal.