Simon Turcotte

Dr. Simon Turcotte is a physician in the Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic, and Liver Transplantation Surgery Department at the CHUM, where he also serves as co-lead of the Clinical Information and Biological Sample Bank for Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Cancers. An associate professor in the Department of Surgery at the Université de Montréal, he holds the Roger Des Groseillers Chair in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgical Oncology at the same university. His research focuses on the immunobiology of gastrointestinal cancers and the immunotherapy of solid tumors. Specifically, his research explores the isolation and expansion of anti-tumor T cells, as well as the mechanisms of anergy and exhaustion affecting these cells. Dr. Turcotte is also interested in identifying tumor antigens and modulating antigen expression and presentation in cancer cells—areas of research that are essential to developing new immunotherapeutic approaches for hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancers.