Dr. Antoine Duquette

Biography

Antoine Duquette is a neurologist at the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and an associate professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the Faculty of Medicine Université de Montréal. He specializes in movement disorders, focusing on spinocerebellar ataxias and hereditary neurodegenerative diseases. He also participates in the gene medicine service at CHUM as a neurology consultant. Duquette earned his medical degree from Université de Montréal in 2002. During his residency in neurology, he completed a Master's degree in Neurosciences focusing on a Franco-Canadian form of autosomal recessive ataxia. After finishing his residency in 2008, he pursued additional clinical training and research in movement disorders at McGill University. He further specialized at Brigham Women’s Hospital affiliated with Harvard University, where he studied neurodegeneration mechanisms in Drosophila. Throughout his training, he received support from a Phase 1 clinician-researcher grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and various scholarships from research funds in Quebec. His research interests include understanding genetic factors contributing to neurodegeneration during aging and utilizing Drosophila as a model for human neurodegenerative diseases.

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