Appointments:
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Université de Moncton. Tier II Canada Research Chair for 10 years, followed by 6 years as a New Brunswick Innovation Research Chair. Chair, CIHR operating grant peer-review committee.
Affiliations:
New Brunswick Centre for Precision Medicine; Adjunct Professor in the Faculté de Médecine at Université Laval
Research Interests:
Inflammation; unsaturated fatty acids; 5-lipoxygenase; lipid mediators of inflammation; phospholipase A2
Fats and cancer cells
Cancer cells undergo adaptations that allow them to survive and multiply. One of the changes in many types of cancer cells is how they use lipids (or fats). We and others have shown that cancer cells increase their ability to use sugars to make more fatty acids. This allows them to have the necessary types of lipids to make new membranes that are required for cells to grown and divide. I am interested in this area of research because understanding how cancer cells change their use of lipids may identify new ways of treating cancers.
Hometown: Was born in Ottawa, but was brought up in Montréal and Moncton. I consider Moncton my hometown.
What brought you to your current institution? I was the VP of Research and Development at a small Biopharmaceutical company in Charleston, South Carolina, when I was recruited to Université de Moncton as a Canada Research Chair.
Learn More about my research: https://www.umoncton.ca/prof/umcm-surette_marc/
Involvement with BHCRI to date:
I have served a member of the BHCRI Finance committee since 2021, and the Training Committee since 2020