Full professor
Department of Molecular Biology, Medical Biochemistry, and Pathology
Faculty of Medicine

Professor Darren Richard received his doctorate in pharmacology from Université de Sherbrooke and his postdoctorate in cell biology from Université de Nice (France).

Researcher at the CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center since 2001, Prof. Richard is a full professor in the department of molecular biology, medical biochemistry, and pathology at Université Laval’s Faculty of Medicine since 2011. His research field concerns hypoxic signaling, hypoxia-inducible factors (HIF), and their roles in cardio-renal disease and cancer.

Scholar of the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé (FRQS) and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Prof. Richard is the director of the biomedical sciences bachelor’s program and a member of the master’s and doctoral program in cellular and molecular biology at Université Laval.