Serge Desnoyers

Serge Desnoyers is Director of the Research & Innovation Office at Université Laval, where he leads the team providing institutional support to researchers seeking research funding. He also oversees the teams supporting the university’s human and animal research ethics committees and its responsible conduct of research activities. Previously, he served as Assistant Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Infection and Immunity, where he was responsible for operations and strategic development. In this role, he co-led research initiatives in inflammation and transplantation and led the institute’s microbiome research program. He also contributed to establishing an international infectious disease research network that brought together funding organizations from more than 20 countries. Earlier in his career, Serge Desnoyers worked as a biomedical researcher in the field of cancer for more than 20 years, contributing to a paradigm shift in the understanding