Dr. Sébastien Fortin PhD is a regular researcher at the Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Laval University, Director of a pharmaceutical chemistry laboratory located at the Hôpital Saint-François d’Assise, and Associate Professor at Laval University’s School of Pharmacy. He is author and co-author of 28 publications and co-inventor of 3 patents on the technologies that he develops. Dr. Fortin is the recipient of several awards and honors, including the Jean-François St-Denis Fellowship in Cancer Research from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the 2011 award for the best doctorate in cotutelle awarded by the Ministère des Relations internationales and the Consulat général de France à Québec. His research focuses on the design and development of new anticancer agents for use in personalized medicine.

Development of new drugs for personalized cancer chemotherapy

In Canada, cancer is the leading cause of death, followed only by cardiovascular diseases. Cancer is therefore a major public health problem. Despite recent medical breakthroughs, the ability to cure all cancer patients remains elusive. Consequently, we need to develop new treatments that will be more efficient, and more selective against cancer tumors, with the aim of improving the life expectancy and the quality of life of cancer patients. The aim of my research program is to design and prepare new anticancer agents exhibiting optimal biopharmaceutical and anticancer properties suitable for preclinical and clinical studies. My research themes are divided in two parts: 1) development of new inhibitors of DNA repair and replication mechanisms and 2) development of new inhibitors targeting cells deficient in homologous recombination. My research programs involve and focus on several interrelated and complementary disciplines, including molecular design and modeling, medicinal chemistry, cell biology, molecular pharmacology, and animal experimentation. The outcomes of these projects will contribute to the development of new, efficient and personalized anticancer treatments.

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Pauty J, Cote MF, Rodrigue A, Velic D, Masson JY, Fortin S

Investigation of the DNA damage response to SFOM-0046, a new small-molecule drug inducing DNA double-strand breaks

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Sci Rep, 6 , 2016.

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Gagne-Boulet M, Fortin S, Lacroix J, Lefebvre CA, Cote MF, C-Gaudreault R

Styryl-N-phenyl-N'-(2-chloroethyl)ureas and styrylphenylimidazolidin-2-ones as new potent microtubule-disrupting agents using combretastatin A-4 as model

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Eur J Med Chem, 100 , 2015.

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Gagne-Boulet M, Moussa H, Lacroix J, Cote MF, Masson JY, Fortin S

Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel N-phenyl ureidobenzenesulfonate derivatives as potential anticancer agents. Part 2. Modulation of the ring B

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Eur J Med Chem, 103 , 2015.

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Morin N, Bruneau J, Fortin S, Brasseur K, Leblanc V, Asselin E, Berube G

New testosterone derivatives as semi-synthetic anticancer agents against prostate cancer: synthesis and preliminary biological evaluation

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Med Chem, 11 (6), 2015.

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Fortin S, Wei Lianhu, Kotra LP, C-Gaudreault R

Novel Cytocidal Substituted Phenyl 4-(2-Oxoimidazolidin-1-yl) Benzenesulfonates and Benzenesulfonamides with Affinity to the Colchicine-Binding Site: Is the Phenyl 2-Imidazolidinone Moiety a New Haptophore for the Design of New Antimitotics?

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Open J Med Chem, 5 , 2014.

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Fortin S, Brasseur K, Morin N, Asselin E, Berube G

New platinum(II) complexes conjugated at position 7α of 17β-acetyl-testosterone as new combi-molecules against prostate cancer: design, synthesis, structure-activity relationships and biological evaluation

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Eur J Med Chem, 68 , 2013.

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Fortin S, Berube G

Advances in the development of hybrid anticancer drugs

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Expert Opin Drug Discov, 8 (8), 2013.

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Charest-Morin X, Fortin S, Lodge R, Roy C, Gera L, C-Gaudreault R, Gaudreault RC, Marceau F

Inhibitory effects of cytoskeleton disrupting drugs and GDP-locked Rab mutants on bradykinin B₂ receptor cycling

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Pharmacol Res, 71 , 2013.

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Marceau F, Bouthillier J, Houle Steeve, Sabourin T, Fortin JP, Morissette G, Lodge R, Fortin S, C-Gaudreault R, Bawolak MT, Koumbadinga MT, Gérémy A, Roy C, Charest-Morin X, Gera L

Bradykinin receptors: agonists, antagonists, expression, signaling and adaptation to sustained stimulation

Journal Article

J Angioedema, 1 (December), 2013.

Turcotte V, Fortin S, Vevey F, Coulombe Y, Lacroix J, Cote MF, Masson JY, C-Gaudreault R

Synthesis, biological evaluation, and structure-activity relationships of novel substituted N-phenyl ureidobenzenesulfonate derivatives blocking cell cycle progression in S-phase and inducing DNA double-strand breaks

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J Med Chem, 55 (13), 2012.

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Active projects

  • Développement et optimisation de nouveaux agents anticancéreux ciblant les cancers humains réfractaires aux traitements actuels., from 2023-07-01 to 2026-06-30
  • Eleclazine: “Boosting” efficacy and safety of the antineoplastic drug Alpelisib (Piqray®)?, from 2023-01-01 to 2024-12-30
  • L’AIMZ-938, un nouveau promédicament anticancéreux pour le traitement des cancers du sein humain réfractaires aux traitements actuels et exprimant le cytochrome P450 1A1, from 2021-10-01 to 2026-09-30
  • Pharmacological optimization of OpKemo, a silica-based nanoparticle platform for oncology, from 2022-01-31 to 2024-12-31

Recently finished projects

  • Characterisation of the molecular structure and function of topoisomerase I using anticancer agents as molecular probes acting in a new allosteric binding-site, from 2016-04-01 to 2023-03-31
  • Computational design, synthesis, and screening of FUT8 inhibitors as new anticancer agents_Fortin, from 2022-09-01 to 2023-08-31
  • Design and synthesis of FUT8 inhibitors as new anticancer agents - Fortin, from 2022-04-01 to 2023-07-31
  • Les phénylureidobenzènesulfonates, une nouvelle thérapie de différenciation pour le traitement de la leucémie myéloïde aiguë : preuve de concept, from 2020-02-01 to 2024-01-31
  • Projet parent « Design and synthesis of FUT8 inhibitors as new anticancer agents, from 2022-04-01 to 2023-07-31
  • Soutien séjour en France - 8 au 18 mars 2024, from 2023-10-01 to 2024-04-30
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