Jonny St-amand

Dr St-Amand is a professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine at University Laval and director of the Functional Genomic Laboratory and the SAGE Facility at the CHUL Research Center. He has pursued his post-doctoral training at the University of British Colombia to study the effects of obesity and energy expenditure on coronary artery diseases as well as genetic and physiopathology.

His current research program is aimed to the development of exercise pills and the discovery of novel high fat diet induced satiety hormone. Moreover, he is developing bioinformatics software to analyze the results obtained from transcriptomic studies. His research group has presented more than 100 presentations, most of them at international congress. His functional genomics studies will allow developing new treatments for obesity, coronary artery diseases and cancers.