Education

Publications

Continuous Education

Experiences

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Areas of Practice:

Alain Dumont joined the firm in January 2006 and is practicing in the intellectual property field. He specializes in the following areas:

• Patents (biotechnological)

Education:

Ph.D. Experimental Medicine (Immunology), McGill University, 2003

B.Sc. Biochemistry, Université de Montréal, 1997

D.E.S.S. in Management, HEC Montréal, 2004

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Publications:

Younes, S.A., Trautmann, L., Yassine-Diab, B., Kalfayan, L.H., Kernaleguen, A.E., Cameron, T.O., Boulassel, R., Stern, L.J., Routy, J.P., Grossman, ., Dumont, A.R., Sekaly, R.P. ”The Duration of Exposure to HIV Modulates the Breadth and the Magnitude of HIV-Specific Memory CD4+ T Cells”, J Immunol. 178(2):788-797, 2007;

Riou, C., Dumont, A.R., Yassine-Diab, B., Haddad, E.K., Sekay, R.P., “IL-4 influences the differentiation and the susceptibility to activation-induced cell death of human naive CD8+ T cells”, Int. Immunol. 18 (6): 827-835, 2006;

Luchino Y., Cohen, Elias K. Haddad, Denis Gaucher, Marie-Laurence Baron, Catherine Riou, Alain R. Dmont and Rafick-Pierre Sékaly, “Role of caspase activity in the regulation of T lymphocyte development and function”, In R. Gorczynski Ed., Altered Immunoregulation and Human Disease, 231-260, 2005;

Dumont, A.R., Lavoie, P.M., McGrath, H., Sékaly, R.-P., “Delayed expansion of a restricted T cell repertoire by low-density TCR ligands”, International Immunol. 17 (7): 931-41, 2005;

Dumont, A.R., Kalfayan, L., Sékaly, R.-P., “Modulation of immune responses – strategies for optimising vaccines”, Expert Opin Biol. Ther. 4 (5): 627-30, 2004;

Dumont, Alain, “Insights into the dynamics of T cell clonal expansion and the functional heterogeneity of memory CD4 T lymphocytes using superantigens”, Doctoral Thesis, McGill University, 2004;

Younes, S.A., Yassine-Diab, B., Dumont, A.R., Boulassel, R., Routy, J.-P., Sékaly, R.-P., “HIV-1 viremia prevents the establishment of interleukin 2-producing HIV-specific memory CD4+ T cells endowed with proliferative capacity”, J. Exp. Med., 198 (12): 1909-1922, 2003;

Poulin, J.-F., Sylvestre, M., Champagne, P., Kétaf, N., Dion, M.-L., Dumont, A., Lainesse, M., Fontaine, P., Roy, D.-C., Perreault, C., Sékaly, R.-P., Cheynier, R., “Evidence for adequate thymic function but impaired naive T-cell survival following allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the absence of chronic graft-versus-host disease”, Blood, 102 (13): 4600-4607, 2003;

Dumont, A.R., Champagne, P., Sékaly, R.-P., “Learning to remember : generation and maintenance of T-cell memory”, DNA Cell Biol., 20 (12): 745-60, 2001.

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Continuing Education:

”Understanding Patents: An Introductory Course”, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada and McGill Centre for Continuing Education, 2006 ;

“Patent Protection in Biotechnology : Issues and Strateges for Effective Protection”, Biotechnology Human Resource Council, 2005

“Good Clinical Practices”, Biotechnology Human Resource Council, 2005

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Experiences:

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Awards:

Doctoral Research Award, Canadian institutes of Health Research (IRSC/CIHR), April 2000 to March 2003

Alma Mater Research Travel Award, Mc Gill University, February 1999

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