Sylvain Moineau, from Université Laval's Faculty of Science and Engineering, is one of five winners of the prestigious Killam 2024 awards.
These awards are presented annually by the National Research Council of Canada to recognize scientists who have consistently demonstrated excellence and made outstanding contributions in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, health sciences and engineering. Each of the five awards carries a cash prize of $100,000.
Sylvain Moineau is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Bioinformatics, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Bacteriophages at Université Laval.
Mr. Moineau is an eminent microbiologist and researcher, known for his outstanding and pioneering work on bacterial viruses (phages) and on CRISPR-Cas systems, an adaptive immune system used by bacteria to defend themselves against phages. With his research group, he has developed an innovative integrative approach to better understand the diversity, biology and evolution of these specialized viruses.
Article of the Faculté des sciences et de génie de l'Université Laval (In French)