Simon Turcotte

Dr. Simon Turcotte is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Montreal, a physician in the Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplantation division at CHUM, and co-manager of CHUM's Clinical Information Bank and Biological Samples for Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Cancers. He holds an MD and MSc, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC), with a research focus on cancer immunobiology.

• Education: MD, MSc, FRCSC

Research Interests: Dr. Turcotte investigates immunobiology of gastrointestinal cancers, immunotherapy of solid cancers, and mechanisms of anti-tumor T lymphocyte isolation, expansion, anergy/exhaustion, tumor antigen identification, and antigen expression modulation in cancer cells.

Publications: His work spans lysosome biology in cancer drug resistance, autophagy in tumor targeting, PD-L1 regulation in melanoma, and ectonucleotidase roles in pancreatic cancer immunosuppression.

Labs & Teams: He co-manages CHUM's Clinical Information Bank and Biological Samples for Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Cancers, integrating clinical data with biological specimen analysis.