Dr. Dupré is a neurologist at the CHU de Québec-Laval University, a Full Professor in the Department of Medicine of the School of Medicine (Laval University), and the Director of the Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disease Clinic of the CHU de Québec – Université Laval.

Dr. Dupré completed his medical training at McGill University and his residency in neurology at Laval University. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute and at Harvard University. In 2007, he discovered a gene (syne-1) implicated in a new form of hereditary ataxia that has since been highly recognized internationally. Dr. Dupré also played an important role in the discovery of the involvement of the TARDBP in the etiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He is now involved in several provincial, national, and international networks that contribute to the discovery of genes involved in neurological diseases. He has generated more than 100 original publications. Dr. Dupré’s remarkable achievements have earned him several awards, including the 2015 Quebec Society of Muscular Dystrophy Award – ALS component – related to his involvement in the Clinic for Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Diseases.

The research component of the clinic has grown significantly in recent years, with the creation of the Québec Parkinson Network (rpq-qpn.ca). The network connects clinicians with basic science researchers in the field, giving access to a registry of nearly 1000 patients. In addition to his clinical program, Dr. Dupré is involved in research projects linking clinical and basic research. This is done in collaboration with Dr. François Gros-Louis, of the LOEX research center at CHU de Québec – Laval University. One of these projects aims to discover biomarkers of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the skin. Another important project Dr. Dupré takes part in focuses on the development of a reconstructed skin model to study neurofibromatosis. Finally, Dr. Dupré is actively collaborating with Dr. Gros-Louis to identify pathogenic mechanisms of intracranial aneurysms in the Inuit and French-Canadian populations and to develop in vitro models of the disease. This project has just been funded by CIHR for a duration of 5 years.

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Ross JP, Akçimen F, Liao C, Kwan K, Phillips DE, Schmilovich Z, Spiegelman D, Genge A, Dupré N, Dion PA, Farhan SMK, Rouleau GA

Rare variant and polygenic analyses of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the French-Canadian genome

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Genet Med, 2023.

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Kushol R, Luk CC, Dey A, Benatar M, Briemberg H, Dionne A, Dupré N, Frayne R, Genge A, Gibson S, Graham SJ, Korngut L, Seres P, Welsh RC, Wilman AH, Zinman L, Kalra S, Yang YH

SF2Former: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identification from multi-center MRI data using spatial and frequency fusion transformer

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Comput Med Imaging Graph, 108 , 2023.

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Senkevich K, Beletskaia M, Dworkind A, Yu E, Ahmad J, Ruskey JA, Asayesh F, Spiegelman D, Fahn S, Waters C, Monchi O, Dauvilliers Y, Dupré N, Greenbaum L, Hassin-Baer S, Nagornov I, Tyurin A, Miliukhina I, Timofeeva A, Emelyanov A, Trempe JF, Zakharova E, Alcalay RN, Pchelina S, Gan-Or Z

Association of Rare Variants in ARSA with Parkinson's Disease

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Mov Disord, 2023.

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Bouvier L, McKinlay S, Truong J, Genge A, Dupré N, Dionne A, Kalra S, Yunusova Y

Speech timing and monosyllabic diadochokinesis measures in the assessment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Canadian French

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Int J Speech Lang Pathol, 2023.

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Modica JS, Déry C, Canissario R, Logigian E, Bonno D, Stanton M, Dupré N, McDermott MP, Bouchard M, Lang AE, Lizarraga KJ

A systematic review of the potential consequences of abnormal serum levels of vitamin B6 in people living with Parkinson's disease

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J Neurol Sci, 450 , 2023.

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Louit A, Beaudet MJ, Blais M, Gros-Louis F, Dupré N, Berthod F

In Vitro Characterization of Motor Neurons and Purkinje Cells Differentiated from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Generated from Patients with Autosomal Recessive Spastic Ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay

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Stem Cells Int, 2023 , 2023.

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Picher-Martel V, Boutej H, Vézina A, Cordeau P, Kaneb H, Julien JP, Genge A, Dupré N, Kriz J

Distinct Plasma Immune Profile in ALS Implicates sTNFR-II in pAMPK/Leptin Homeostasis

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Int J Mol Sci, 24 (6), 2023.

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Senkevich K, Beletskaia M, Dworkind A, Yu E, Ahmad J, Ruskey JA, Asayesh F, Spiegelman D, Fahn S, Waters C, Monchi O, Dauvilliers Y, Dupré N, Greenbaum L, Hassin-Baer S, Nagornov I, Tyurin A, Miliukhina I, Timofeeva A, Emelyanov A, Zakharova E, Alcalay RN, Pchelina S, Gan-Or Z

Association of rare variants in ARSA with Parkinson's disease

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medRxiv, 2023.

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Senkevich K, Zorca CE, Dworkind A, Rudakou U, Somerville E, Yu E, Ermolaev A, Nikanorova D, Ahmad J, Ruskey JA, Asayesh F, Spiegelman D, Fahn S, Waters C, Monchi O, Dauvilliers Y, Dupré N, Greenbaum L, Hassin-Baer S, Grenn FP, Chiang MSR, Sardi SP, Vanderperre B, Blauwendraat C, Trempe JF, Fon EA, Durcan TM, Alcalay RN, Gan-Or Z

GALC variants affect galactosylceramidase enzymatic activity and risk of Parkinson's disease

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Brain, 146 (5), 2023.

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Jardim LB, Hasan A, Kuo SH, Magaña JJ, França M, Marques W, Camejo C, Santana-da-Silva LC, Leão EE, Espíndola G, Canals F, Miranda M, Salvatierra I, Cornejo-Olivas M, Fernandez-Ruiz J, Braga-Neto P, Dávila-Ortiz de Montellano DJ, Flores-Lagunes LL, Dupré N, Brais B, Vargas FR, Godeiro C, Coutinho L, Teive HG, Kaufmann M, Saffie P, Furtado GV, Saraiva-Pereira ML, Barsottini O, Pedroso JL, Rodríguez-Labrada R, Velázquez-Pérez L, Gomez C,

An Exploratory Survey on the Care for Ataxic Patients in the American Continents and the Caribbean

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Cerebellum, 22 (4), 2023.

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Active projects

  • Biobanque PEJ-235 , from 2023-07-25 to 2024-03-31
  • Comprehensive Analysis Platform To Understand,Remedy and Eliminate ALS, from 2021-01-01 to 2025-03-31
  • Depicting disease heterogeneity in neurofibromatosis type 1 and the role of microenvironment in NF1-associated skin tumor formation through personalized tissue-engineered 3D models, from 2023-03-01 to 2024-02-29
  • Développement d’un registre de patients sur la neurofibromatose , from 2023-08-03 to 2026-08-03
  • Digital measurement of gait as a potential pharmacodynamic/response biomarker for ALS-FTSD , from 2022-09-01 to 2024-08-31
  • The Canadian Parkinson Network, from 2018-10-01 to 2023-09-30

Recently finished projects

  • Capture ALS - Time Frame, from 2021-10-28 to 2022-10-27
  • Creating an Open Science Repository of ARCA1 iPSCs, from 2021-05-31 to 2023-05-31
  • Creating an Open Science Repository of ARSACS hiPSCs, from 2020-10-23 to 2021-10-22
  • Crosstalk between immune response and metabolic signaling: targeting leptin/AMPK axis to restore metabolic homeostasis in ALS, from 2021-02-01 to 2023-01-31
  • Développement d’une approche en santé durable pour la recherche sur le Parkinson et les troubles associés, from 2022-04-29 to 2023-04-30
  • Pathogenic Pathways and in-vitro modelization of Intracranial Aneurysms in populations of Inuit and French Canadian descent, from 2017-04-01 to 2022-03-31
  • Recherche clinique en vue de mettre en ligne le test de sévérité des commotions cérébrales et création d'un registre de participants , from 2022-11-01 to 2023-03-31
  • Reseau Parkinson Québec_RPQ / Quebec Parkinson, from 2022-04-01 to 2023-03-31
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