{"id":3690,"date":"2012-01-23T15:41:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T20:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biomol.umontreal.ca\/research\/professors\/rodier-francis-ph-d\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:30:41","slug":"rodier-francis-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biomol.umontreal.ca\/en\/research\/les-professeurs\/rodier-francis-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodier, Francis, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professeur adjoint<br \/>\nUniversit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Facult\u00e9 de m\u00e9decine<br \/>\nD\u00e9partement de radiologie, radio-oncologie et m\u00e9decine nucl\u00e9aire<\/p>\n<h3>Coordonn\u00e9es<\/h3>\n<p>CRCHUM et Institut du Cancer de Montr\u00e9al<br \/>\n1560, Sherbrooke Est<br \/>\nMontr\u00e9al (Qu\u00e9bec) H2L 4M1<strong><br \/>\nT<\/strong> 514 890-8000 #26939<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:rodierf@mac.com\">rodierf@mac.com<\/a><br \/>\n<hr\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"one-half first \">\n<h2>Axes de recherche<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Signalisation intracellulaire<\/li>\n<li>Canc\u00e9rologie<\/li>\n<li>Approches th\u00e9rapeutiques<\/li>\n<li>Syst\u00e8mes mod\u00e8les en biologie mol\u00e9culaire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Description de la recherche<\/h2>\n<p>Le laboratoire travaille \u00e0 \u00e9largir notre compr\u00e9hension des acteurs cellulaires et tissulaires impliqu\u00e9s dans la r\u00e9ponse aux dommages de l\u2019ADN. \u00a0Ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne biologique\u00a0important est impliqu\u00e9 dans le vieillissement et influence le d\u00e9veloppement du cancer ainsi que les r\u00e9sultats obtenus avec les th\u00e9rapies associ\u00e9es \u00e0 cette maladie.<\/p>\n<p>Plus sp\u00e9cifiquement, nous voulons mieux comprendre les m\u00e9canismes de r\u00e9solution du signal lorsqu\u2019une l\u00e9sion \u00e0 l\u2019ADN est r\u00e9par\u00e9e, ou le ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne d\u2019adaptation au\u00a0dommage souvent observ\u00e9 dans les cellules canc\u00e9reuses lorsque la l\u00e9sion de l\u2019ADN est irr\u00e9parable. Pour atteindre ces objectifs, nous travaillons avec des mod\u00e8les\u00a0cellulaires, animaux et humains qui sont combin\u00e9s avec des technologies d\u2019analyse scientifique de pointe. \u00a0En collaboration avec des cliniciens chercheurs, nous\u00a0travaillons aussi \u00e0 identifier de nouveaux outils de diagnostic mol\u00e9culaire et des cibles cellulaires pour sensibiliser les cellules canc\u00e9reuses aux agents th\u00e9rapeutiques\u00a0utilis\u00e9s en chimio et radioth\u00e9rapies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"one-half  \">\n<h2>Research axis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Intracellular signaling<\/li>\n<li>Cancer<\/li>\n<li>Therapeutic approaches<\/li>\n<li>Model systems in molecular biology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Research description<\/h2>\n<p>The laboratory focuses its research on identifying cellular and tissue mediators of the mammalian DNA damage response. \u00a0This important biological phenomenon is\u00a0involved in human aging, cancer development, and influences the outcome of cancer therapy.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, we want to understand how the DNA damage response is terminated following DNA lesion repair, and how cancer cells can often tolerate persistent\u00a0DNA damage signalling that occurs when DNA lesions are irreparable. \u00a0To achieve these goals, we combine cell culture and animal\/human models with cutting edge\u00a0scientific tools. \u00a0In collaboration with clinicians, we are also working to develop new molecular diagnostic tools for cancer detection and we are trying to identify cellular\u00a0targets to sensitize cancer cells to chemotherapy or radiotherapy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chumontreal.qc.ca\/en\/crchum\/chercheurs\/francis-rodier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consultez le site web institutionnel du chercheur<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professeur adjoint Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Facult\u00e9 de m\u00e9decine D\u00e9partement de radiologie, radio-oncologie et m\u00e9decine nucl\u00e9aire Coordonn\u00e9es CRCHUM et Institut du Cancer de Montr\u00e9al 1560, Sherbrooke Est Montr\u00e9al (Qu\u00e9bec) H2L 4M1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3557,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3690","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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