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3775 University St., Room 511
Montreal, QC H3A 2B4
Tel: (514) 398-3914
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joaquin [dot] madrenas [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)
Dr. Joaquín (Quim) Madrenas is Full Professor and Chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at McGill University. Previously, he was professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and Medicine and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Immunobiology at The University of Western Ontario (UWO), and Head of Immunology at Robarts Research Institute.
Dr. Madrenas received an M.D. degree at the University of Barcelona, specialized in Nephrology and Transplantation at the University Autonoma of Barcelona, and obtained a Ph.D. degree in Immunology under Dr. Phillip Halloran, at the University of Alberta. He was a visiting associate with Dr. Ronald Germain at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD, USA), before coming back to Canada. He was the founding Director of the FOCIS Centre for Clinical Immunology and Immunotherapeutics in London, ON, the first FOCIS Centre of Excellence in Canada.
Dr. Madrenas has made seminal contributions to Science as illustrated by his publications in top journals (Science, Nature Medicine, Immunity, Journal of Experimental Medicine, The Lancet, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA). Among his discoveries are the different patterns of signalling through the T cell antigen receptor, the mechanisms of signalling by CTLA-4, and the signals delivered to T cells by bacterial superantigens. For his research, he has received numerous awards including a Canada Foundation for Innovation Researcher Award, a Premier’s Research Excellence Award, a Canada Research Chair, an Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award, a Canadian Who’s Who, The John B. Dossetor Mission Award in Research from The Kidney Foundation of Canada, the UWO Dean’s Award of Excellence in Research and UWO Faculty Scholar Award. In 2011, Dr. Madrenas was inducted to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Professor Madrenas is also an active teacher of Immunology, having received the Schulich Leader Excellence Award in Undergraduate Medical Education, four UWO Hippocratic Council Basic Science Teaching Awards, and being included in the Who’s Who in Medical Sciences Education. He also serves as associate editor of several high profile journals including The Journal of Immunology and the American Journal of Transplantation, and has extensive experience as a reviewer for national and international agencies and institutional boards, having served as chairman of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Immunology and Transplantation panel, member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Infection and Immunity at CIHR, and co-chair of the National Research Council of the Kidney Foundation of Canada. Professor Madrenas is actively engaged in public education and community outreach on Science and History.
Research in the Madrenas lab is funded by CIHR and the Kidney Foundation of Canada.