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

Dr. Venkata Manem is an Assistant Professor at Université Laval and an early-career researcher at the CHU de Québec (CHU)-Université Laval (UL). He received the prestigious FRQS J1 and IVADO career awards. Trained as an Applied Mathematician, he obtained his PhD from University of Waterloo (2014) and completed his postdoc training at Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital (2014–2015), Princess Margaret Hospital (2015–2018), and also worked as a Bioinformatics researcher at IUCPQ (2018–2020).

His research focus is on the application of translational bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence-based approaches to characterize the molecular mechanisms of cancer and develop novel data-driven biomarkers. He has extensive experience in translational research and worked on several computational biology projects using high-dimensional data generated from various sources.