Full professor
Department of Molecular Medicine
Faculty of Medicine

Professor Jacques P. Tremblay obtained a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). He has published more than 310 articles in peer-reviewed journals, mainly on work aimed at developing cell or gene therapies for neuromuscular diseases. He is currently working on the correction of point mutations with Prime editing technology derived from CRISPR/Cas9 technology. This fantastic technology makes it possible to replace a targeted nucleotide (among the 3.2 billion nucleotides in the human genome) with the chosen nucleotide. This technology will eventually correct thousands of hereditary diseases caused by single nucleotide mutations.