Josette-Renée Landry

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Josette-Renée Landry
Director, Business Development
MITACS

Josette-Renée Landry received her PhD in Genetics from the Terry Fox Labs at UBC where she investigated the role of human endogenous retroviruses in normal genomes. While completing her doctorate she co-founded a consulting firm, BasePair Solutions, which provided bioinformatics services to the Vancouver biotechnology sector. She then moved to the UK for post-doctoral training at the University of Cambridge, where she studied the transcription regulation of normal and leukemic hematopoiesis. After relocating to Montréal, she co-founded a non-profit organization, MonBUG, which brings together student, professional and academic bioinformatics users in the greater Montréal for monthly gatherings. During that time, she also managed the functional genomics core service facility at the Université de Montréal.

Josette joined the Quebec Mitacs team in 2010, as a business development director, where she has been responsible for program promotion and stakeholder management. She also facilitates new industrial partnerships with universities and targets the development of new program initiatives within the province of Québec. She is a past recipient of a CIHR Science to Business award and has recently completed her MBA at HEC Montréal. Josette is now the team lead for Quebec and Atlantic Canada.