Loïc joined Dr. Guy Sauvageau’s lab as a CEGEP student intern in 2024. He then became a full member of the team as a laboratory technical assistant. Since then, he has been working under Simon Girard’s mentorship to uncover new insights into the mechanism of action of UM171, a small molecule identified by the laboratory in 2015 that enables ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells.
Research Assistant