Sébastien Jacquemont

Sébastien Jacquemont

Fondation CHU-Sainte-Justine

Researcher

Biography

Dr. Sébastien Jacquemont is a medical geneticist at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center. He is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine and also practices in the Department of Medical Genetics at CHU Sainte-Justine. His research, conducted within the Department of Pediatrics at the Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine, focuses on two main areas: genetics and neuroscience.

Research and impacts

  • Creation of a unique-in-the-world brain biobank, enabling the direct observation of molecular activity in the developing human brain for the first time.
  • Large-scale utilization of hospital data using AI, paving the way for unprecedented analyses of thousands of EEGs and clinical records to gain a better understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders.
  • Major progress on flagship projects: advances regarding 22q and 16p chromosomal anomalies, promising results from the Metformin trial for Fragile X syndrome, and the expansion of the Q1K project (500 phenotyped individuals).
  • Training and professional advancement of the next generation of scientists, with several laboratory researchers securing prestigious positions or publishing in top-tier journals.

Researchers