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Yvan Guindon obtained his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the Université de Montréal in 1981. He has held leadership positions at two pharmaceutical research centers in Montreal: Merck Frosst from 1979 to 1987 and Bio-Mega-Boehringer/Ingelheim Recherche from 1987 to 1994. He then led the Institute of Clinical Research of Montreal (IRCM) from 1994 to 2004, where his research laboratory (Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry) is located. He is a tenured researcher at the Department of Chemistry at the Université de Montréal and a research professor at the IRCM. Professor Guindon has received numerous honors and awards, including being a member of the Order of Canada since 2005 and Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 2012. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1990 and served as its president from 2007 to 2009. He received the Prix du Québec in 2006 (Lionel Boulet Prize) for his contributions to the biopharmaceutical sector and recently the Alfred Bader Prize from the Canadian Society for Chemistry in 2012 for his work in organic chemistry. Professor Guindon is recognized for his work in medicinal chemistry, organic synthesis, and the conceptualization of radical reactivity in the context of diastereoselective reactions.
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology - Research intensive with options in Neuropharmacology and Pharmacogenomics.