Fernand Labrie
Medicine
Endocrinologist who won the 2007 King Faisal Prize for developing a steroid hormone therapy for prostate cancer. |
- Birthdate
- June 28, 1937
- Birthplace
- Québec, Canada
- Residence
- Québec, Canada
- Family Members
- Married to Nicole Cantin.
- children: Claude, Pierre, Danielle, Anne and Isabelle.
- Personality
- Professional and enthusiastic.
- Other Interests
- Downhill skiing and water skiing.
- Title
- Director, Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology, Laval University
- Office
- Centre Hospitalier de l’Université Laval
- Status
- Working
- Degrees
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- BA (magna cum laude), Séminaire de Québec, Laval University, 1957
- MD (magna cum laude), Laval University, 1962
- Residency in Internal Medicine, L'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, 1962-1963
- PhD (endocrinology) (summa cum laude), Laval University, 1966
- Awards
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- Member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 1973
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1979
- Officer of the Order of Canada, 1981
- The Izaak-Walton-Killam Memorial Prize of the Canada Council for the Arts, 1998
- Award of the International Academy of Human Reproduction for outstanding contribution to the field of human reproduction, 10th World Congress of Human Reproduction, Bahia, 1999
- The Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, 2002
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Athens, Greece, 2006
- Armand-Frappier Prize, 2006
- King Faisal International Prize in medicine, 2007
- Mentor
Frederick Sanger--Labrie did three years of postdoctoral training at the University of Cambridge, England at Sanger's lab. Sanger won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1958 and 1980.
- Last Updated
- June 6, 2011
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