Participants
2 April 2024
11:45 – 12:30
Amphi 3
Rémi Quirion
Professor Rémi Quirion has been Quebec’s Chief Scientist since July 2011. A full professor of psychiatry at McGill University, he was Scientific Director of the Douglas Institute Research Centre (1996-2011). In April 2009, he accepted the position of Associate Dean (Life Sciences and Strategic Initiatives), Faculty of Medicine, and Senior University Advisor (Health Sciences Research) at McGill University, in addition to the position of Executive Director of CIHR’s International Collaborative Research Strategy for Alzheimer’s Disease, positions from which he resigned upon his appointment as Chief Scientist in 2011. He is Chairman of the Boards of Directors of the three Fonds de recherche du Québec (Health – Nature and Technology – Society and Culture). He also chaired the committee on Quebec’s University of the Future in 2020, and was elected President of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) in 2021. Rémi Quirion has received numerous honours, including Officer of the Order of Canada in 2007. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Québec. Member of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and the Académie Nationale de Médecine de France.