Marc-André Legault
Biography
Marc-André Legault obtained his Ph.D. in bioinformatics from Université de Montréal and the Montreal Heart Institute where he developed and applied new computational methods for drug target validation. He subsequently completed his postdoctoral training at McGill University and Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, working on instrumental variable estimation and machine learning for genetic epidemiology more broadly.
He is now an Assistant Professor in pharmacogenetics at the Université de Montréal's Faculty of pharmacy and a researcher at the CHU Sainte-Justine Azrieli research centre. His research program aims to develop and use computational approaches for drug target validation to better understand treatment heterogeneity and improve our ability to anticipate the on-target effect of new drug classes. He is also an Associate Academic member at Mila - Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence.