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Stéphane Laporte: Using genetics to eliminate the side effects of drugs

Stéphane Laporte: Using genetics to eliminate the side effects of drugs

Canada Foundation for Innovation

February 18, 2021

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This podcast is only available in French.

A researcher at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre explores ways to improve drugs

Stéphane Laporte, a researcher at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, became interested in pharmacological research when he noticed just how often drugs were associated with harmful side effects. In his lab at the Centre for Translational Biology, Laporte and his team are working to understand how pharmaceutical drugs work on the body in order to find ways to minimize unwanted side effects.

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