Dr. Pouliot obtained doctorates in medicine (M.D.) and in Physiology-Endocrinology (Ph.D.) from Laval University. After completing a residency in Urology (F.R.C.S.C.), he did a post-doctoral fellowship in Urologic Oncology and molecular imaging at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Since 2010, he has practiced as a urologist-oncologist in the Quebec City University Hospital Center. He is also an associate professor in Laval University’s Department of surgery. He oversees the CHU de Québec multidisciplinary clinic in castration-resistant prostate cancer. In 2014, he was the recipient of the Prostate Cancer Canada/Movember Rising Star Award. He is also the recipient of the FRQS Clinical Research Scholars Junior 1 and 2 and Senior. His clinical and preclinical research interests include the detection and characterization of high risk, advanced and metastatic prostate cancers using transcriptional amplification systems or positron emission tomography (PET) with tracers such as fluoro-deoxyglucose or PSMA ligands (PyL, MP-1404).  He is also involved in the development of new radioligand therapeutics.

His research program has four aims: 1) To develop a dynamic imaging method based on a transcriptional amplification system allowing the sensitive detection of a luminescent reporter gene under the control of prostate cancer specific promoters. This microscopy method will allow predicting the patient’s response to antiandrogen treatments. 2) Use positron emission tomography imaging (PET/CT) as a quantitative method to identify the very high risk prostate cancer and to assess metastasis individual response, in addition to global response to systemic treatment. 3) Develop a prostate cancer immunotherapy based on a transcriptional amplification system specific to prostate cancer. This vaccine vector will allow the introduction of recombinant genes in patient’s prostate cancer cells to induce an efficient immune response against cancer cells.  4) Characterize the androgen receptor (AR) activation in castration resistant prostate cancer patients. This project aims to determine which steroids activate the AR under chemical castration and to identify new AR interacting partners using proteomics.

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Beck J, Rouleau M, Lemire F, Neveu B, Déry M, Thériault B, Dubois G, Guérette D, Pouliot F

Mass spectrometry redefines optimal testosterone thresholds in prostate cancer patients undergoing androgen deprivation therapy

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Prostate, 2023.

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Germain L, Lafront C, Paquette V, Neveu B, Paquette JS, Pouliot F, Audet-Walsh É

Preclinical models of prostate cancer - modelling androgen dependency and castration resistance in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo

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Nat Rev Urol, 2023.

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Lacombe L, Hovington H, Brisson H, Mehdi S, Beillevaire D, Émond JP, Wagner A, Villeneuve L, Simonyan D, Ouellet V, Barrès V, Latour M, Aprikian A, Bergeron A, Castonguay V, Couture F, Chevalier S, Brimo F, Fazli L, Fleshner N, Gleave M, Karakiewicz PI, Lattouf JB, Trudel D, van der Kwast T, Mes-Masson AM, Pouliot F, Fradet Y, Audet-Walsh E, Saad F, Guillemette C, Lévesque E

UGT2B28 accelerates prostate cancer progression through stabilization of the endocytic adaptor protein HIP1 regulating AR and EGFR pathways

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Cancer Lett, 553 , 2023.

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Nguyen EK, Lalani AKA, Ghosh S, Basappa NS, Kapoor A, Hansen AR, Heng D, Wood LA, Castonguay V, Soulières D, Winquist E, Canil C, Bjarnason GA, Breau RH, Pouliot F, Swaminath, A

Outcomes of Radiation Therapy Plus Immunotherapy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Results From the Canadian Kidney Cancer Information System

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Adv Radiat Oncol, 7 (4), 2022.

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So AI, Chi K, Danielson B, Fleshner NE, Kinnaird A, Kapoor A, Niazi T, Pouliot F, Rendon RA, Shayegan B, Sridhar SS, Vigneault E, Saad F

2022 UPDATE: Canadian Urological Association-Canadian Urologic Oncology Group guideline: Metastatic castration-naive and castration-sensitive prostate cancer Full-text

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Can Urol Assoc J, 16 (12), 2022.

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Parmar A, Ghosh S, Sahgal A, Lalani AA, Hansen AR, Reaume MN, Wood L, Basappa NS, Heng DYC, Graham J, Kollmannsberger C, Soulières D, Breau RH, Tanguay S, Kapoor A, Pouliot F, Bjarnason GA

Evaluating the impact of early identification of asymptomatic brain metastases in metastatic renal cell carcinoma

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Cancer Rep (Hoboken), 2022.

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Saad F, Aprikian A, Finelli A, Fleshner NE, Gleave M, Kapoor A, Niazi T, North SA, Pouliot F, Rendon RA, Shayegan B, Sridhar SS, So AI, Usmani N, Vigneault E, Chi KN

2022 Canadian Urological Association (CUA)-Canadian Uro Oncology Group (CUOG) guideline: Management of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)

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Can Urol Assoc J, 16 (11), 2022.

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Pellerin È, Pellerin FA, Chabaud S, Pouliot F, Pelletier M, Bolduc S

Glucuronidated Metabolites of Bisphenols A and S Alter the Properties of Normal Urothelial and Bladder Cancer Cells

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Int J Mol Sci, 23 (21), 2022.

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Selvarajah S, Schrader KA, Kolinsky MP, Rendon RA, El Hallani S, Fleshner NE, Hotte SJ, Lorentz J, Panabaker K, Perrier R, Pouliot F, Spatz A, Yip S, Chi KN

Recommendations for the implementation of genetic testing for metastatic prostate cancer patients in Canada

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Can Urol Assoc J, 16 (10), 2022.

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Rouleau M, Neveu B, Caron P, Morin F, Toren P, Lacombe L, Turcotte V, Lévesque É, Guillemette C, Pouliot F

Extensive Alteration of Androgen Precursor Levels After Castration in Prostate Cancer Patients and Their Association With Active Androgen Level

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J Urol, 208 (6), 2022.

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Active projects

  • Équipement de laboratoire radiopharmaceutique pour la théranostique et l'imagerie moléculaire innovantes, from 2022-07-01 to 2023-12-15
  • Imagerie moléculaire relié au cancer de la prostate, from 2023-02-01 to 2024-01-31
  • Optimiser les soins des patients atteints du cancer de la prostate résistant à la castration en utilisant une stratégie de triple traceur en imagerie moléculaire et en radiothérapieléculaire et en radiothérapie ciblée, from 2018-04-01 to 2023-06-30
  • Surveillance of Complex Renal Cysts: The SOCRATIC study, from 2019-10-01 to 2028-09-30
  • Towards Personalized Dosimetry-Based Radioligand Therapy of Prostate Cancer as a New Standard of Practice, from 2022-04-01 to 2027-03-31
  • Understanding mitochondrial metabolism to identify prostate cancer metabolic vulnerabilities, from 2022-10-01 to 2027-09-30
  • Utilisation de l’imagerie moléculaire par microscopie à bioluminescence ou par tomographie par émission de positrons afin d’optimiser les stratégies thérapeutiques des patients atteints de cancers urologiques, from 2019-07-01 to 2023-06-30

Recently finished projects

  • A Randomized Phase II Study of 177Lu-PSMA-617 vs Docetaxel in Patients with Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer and PSMA-Positive Disease , from 2021-04-01 to 2022-03-31
  • Bourse Concert pour la vie , from 2020-11-13 to 2021-11-12
  • CUASF-BCC Research Grant Program , from 2020-06-06 to 2021-06-05
  • National Program on Radioligand Therapy for Prostate Cancer, from 2018-01-01 to 2022-12-31
  • Projet de recherche sur le cancer de la prostate intitulé Ironman , from 2020-03-24 to 2021-03-23
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