Nicolas Dumont

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Associate professor, Rehabilitation department, University of Montreal

Principal Investigator, Musculoskeletal health research axis, Sainte-Justine Hospital research center


NMD4C Involvement: Pillar 1: Preclinical Science

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Biography

Dr. Nicolas Dumont obtained his PhD at the Université Laval where he studied the regulatory network between inflammatory cells and skeletal muscles. He did his post-doctoral training at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Dr. Michael Rudnicki’s lab, where he studied muscle stem cell defects in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Dr. Dumont became an assistant professor at the Université de Montréal in 2016, and he established his lab at the Sainte-Justine hospital research center. His research program is divided in 3 axes: 1) characterizing the intrinsic mechanisms regulating muscle stem cell fate decision during myogenesis, 2) characterizing the impact of rare genetic variants on muscle stem cell function, and 3) investigating novel therapeutic avenues targeting defective muscle stem cells to mitigate muscular dystrophies. Dr. Dumont holds a FRQS Junior-2 award, and his lab is funded by grants from the CIHR, NSERC, ThéCell network, Stem Cell Network, Orphan disease center, AFM-Telethon, and Muscular Dystrophy Canada.


Recent Publications

  1. Mahdavi, M, Kim, TY, Prévost, K, Balthazar, P, Gagné-Ouellet, V, Hus, IF et al.. Influence of CTG repeats from the human DM1 locus on murine gut microbiota. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2025.27 733-743 PMID:40092662
  2. Légaré, C, Berglund, JA, Duchesne, E, Dumont, NA. New Horizons in Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1: Cellular Senescence as a Therapeutic Target. Bioessays. 2025.47 (3)e202400216 PMID:39723693
  3. Rieger, L, Molina, T, Fabre, P, Greffard, K, Pellerito, O, Dort, J et al.. Transcriptomic and lipidomic profiling reveals distinct bioactive lipid signatures in slow and fast muscles and highlights the role of resolvin-D2 in fiber type determination during myogenesis. FASEB J. 2024.38 (24)e70250 PMID:39698915
  4. Deprez, A, El-Jalbout, R, Cloutier, A, Gagnon, DH, Gagnon Hamelin, A, Mathieu, ME et al.. Adults born preterm have lower peripheral skeletal muscle area and strength. Sci Rep. 2024.14 (1)21457 PMID:39271745
  5. Nkengue, MJ, Zeng, X, Koehl, L, Tao, X, Dassonville, F, Dumont, N et al.. An intelligent garment for long COVID-19 real-time monitoring. Comput Biol Med. 2024.181 109067 PMID:39182371
  6. Morali, B, Miranda, V, Raelson, J, Grimard, G, Glavas, P, Audibert, F et al.. Bi-allelic variants in MYH3 cause recessively-inherited arthrogryposis. Clin Genet. 2024.106 (4)483-487 PMID:38856159
  7. Mahdavi, M, Prévost, K, Balthazar, P, Hus, IF, Duchesne, É, Dumont, N et al.. Disturbance of the human gut microbiota in patients with Myotonic Dystrophy type 1. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2024.23 2097-2108 PMID:38803516
  8. Le Moal, E, Liu, Y, Collerette-Tremblay, J, Dumontier, S, Fabre, P, Molina, T et al.. Apelin stimulation of the vascular skeletal muscle stem cell niche enhances endogenous repair in dystrophic mice. Sci Transl Med. 2024.16 (739)eabn8529 PMID:38507466
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