Dr. Simone Chevalier

Biography

Simone Chevalier is a Full Professor at the Department of Surgery, McGill University. She joined McGill's Department of Surgery as an Associate Professor in 1994 and has since become the director of new research facilities at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and the Urologic Oncology Research Team. Her research focuses on prostatic diseases, particularly benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer. Chevalier has an extensive background in the functional significance of protein kinases involved in the androgen-independent progression of human prostate cancer and the development of new therapeutic modalities for it. She played a key role in the creation of the pan-provincial PROCURE Prostate Cancer Biobank in 2007 and directed its operations for ten years. Chevalier is also involved in translational research, prospectively studying tumors in a cohort of 2,000 patients to identify molecular markers of prostate cancer lethality, with an emphasis on liquid biopsies. In addition to her research activities, she remains a consultant on biobank-related matters.

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