Meet your team
Scientifically and intellectually, our team will click with yours; we share a motivation fueled by meaningful discoveries and rewarded by successful drug development.
Scientific Directors
Annie Bouchard
Scientific Director
Annie loves drug development. After 20 years leading the cardiac team, she elected to analyze drug development programs, and design studies. “It was time for me to integrate into better study designs all that I’ve learned in the lab and surgery room. What works on paper isn’t always optimal once the procedure starts.” Having run hundreds of studies, and successfully taken dozens of compounds from discovery through to regulatory filing, she supports the current scientific teams and lends an occasional hand with particularly difficult surgeries.
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Charles-E. Laurent
Director of In-Vivo Pharmacology
“Over the past years, I had the greatest opportunity to exploit my passion for science at IPST by contributing to the design, and validation of unique assays which are now routinely run and serve to quantify the efficacy in preclinical drug candidates. My greatest contribution was to see the increase in demand for efficacy services such as the rodent model of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), as well as our intravascular thrombosis and hemostasis models.” Charles completed his doctorate in Pharmacology at the Université de Montreal followed by 4 years of post doctorate studies at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry. His field of expertise includes cardiovascular pharmacology and molecular biology.
Dany Salvail
Ph.D., Vice-President.
“From running the experiments myself to designing them to be run by others, the initial steps have always been my favourite. Those moments when a sponsor explains the challenge he/she/they are facing, and together we brainstorm to assemble a solution. Eventually, a ground-breaking idea—a parameter, a test, something—comes to mind, which crystallizes the solution. At that point, we both know that this idea changes everything: it collapses obstacles and opens the path forward. That moment has remained one of my greatest motivators throughout the years.” Dan’s undergrad studies in Biochemistry (Bishop’s University) were followed by graduate studies in Thoracic Physiology (Université de Sherbrooke). Dan’s post-graduate work was in Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Cardiology.
Study Directors
Emilie Dupré
Director, R&D
Emilie led a nonclinical team within IPST for over a decade before being promoted to “Director of R&D”. Her nomination recognizes her successful direction of dozens of GLP-compliant and exploratory studies. Through the years, she has emerged as a specialist in the creation and refinement of animal models of human disease, innovative methods and physiological monitoring modalities. As head of R&D, she supports study design and directs her team as they constantly develop more clinically relevant disease models.
Sandra Gagnon
Study Director
As a study director, Sandra works routinely on pre-clinical models such as PAH and COPD. Over the past three years she and her team have developed the implantation method of pressure telemetry probes in rats.
Special Teams
Marie-Claude Nault
Head of the Imaging Team
Marie-Claude has been with IPST since 2012. She is the specialist in echocardiography and the laboratory technical team director. She likes new challenges and working within a team. In the future, she would like to increase her knowledge of other imaging devices in order to better serve our clients.
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Marzena Biernat
Ph.D., Veterinarian and Histopathologist
“Microscopic image analysis has been my great passion for over 25 years. The observation of the histopathological changes taking place in the new experimental animal models and the drawing of conclusions makes me really happy. I like the smell of the knowledge in the morning and the freedom of having science in my life.” Marzena completed her Ph.D. in Factors Controlling Growth and Maturation of the Small Intestinal Structure and Function at The Kielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition. Postdoc studies on Hormonal Modulation of Pancreatic Secretion and Different Types of Pancreatitis at the Université de Sherbrooke. Her DVM was completed at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences.