Marie-Josée Hébert, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS |
Dr. Marie-Josée Hébert earned a specialized degree in nephrology at the Université de Montréal, followed by postdoctoral studies at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard. Since 1998, she is Professor of Medicine at Université de Montréal (UdeM) researcher at the CHUM research centre and nephrologist–transplant physician at CHUM. She holds the Shire Chair in Nephrology, Renal Transplantation and Regeneration at UdeM. Dr. Hébert is the co-director of the Canadian National Transplant Research Program (CNTRP, now CDTRP) that she cofounded in 2013. Her laboratory focuses on the role of programmed cell death as a major pathway contributing to immune dysregulation, rejection and abnormal vascular repair. Findings from her team have led to the characterization of new mediators of rejection and renal failure in humans. They also contributed to a better understanding of the mechanisms of fibrogenesis triggered by endothelial injury, autophagy and apoptosis. Fellow in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, Marie-Josée Hébert received the Dr. John B. Dossetor Research Award (2015) and the Medal for Research Excellence (2016) from the Kidney Foundation of Canada. In 2017, she was named scientist of the year by the newspaper La Presse.
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