Jacques P Tremblay
Universite Laval, Canada
Biography
Jacques P Tremblay has received PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California at San Diego in 1974. Since that time, he has been at Laval University as a Post-doctoral Researcher, Professor and Director of the Department of Anatomy. He is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine. He has published over 250 scientific articles on hereditary diseases. He has worked specifically on myoblast transplantation as a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. For the last 3 years, he also worked on gene correction with the CRISPR/Cas9 technology for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Friedreich's ataxia and Alzheimer’s disease.