Nada Jabado
Nada Jabado | |
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| Occupation(s) | Pediatrician, Researcher, Professor |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Known for | Research on pediatric brain tumors |
Nada Jabado holds a professorship in Pediatrics at McGill University and practices medicine at the Montreal Children's Hospital. In 2024, she was honored as the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate representing North America.
Education
Jabado completed her pediatric residency specializing in hemato-oncology at Paris University. She subsequently obtained a PhD in Immunology from the Marie Curie Institute in Paris. Following this, she pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in biochemistry at McGill University.
In 2003, she established her independent research program focused on pediatric brain tumors at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.
Awards and distinctions
She has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Among her accolades are the William E. Rawls Prize awarded by the Canadian Cancer Society in 2011 and the Dr. Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research from the University of British Columbia in 2020.
In 2024, she received the distinction of Officer of the Order of Canada.
Most cited papers
- Schwartzentruber J, Korshunov A, Liu XY, Jones DT, Pfaff E, Jacob K, Sturm D, Fontebasso AM, Quang DA, Tönjes M, Hovestadt V. ... N. Jabado Driver mutations in histone H3.3 and chromatin remodelling genes in paediatric glioblastoma. Nature. 2012 Feb;482(7384):226-31. Cited 1871 times according to Google Scholar.
- Sturm D, Witt H, Hovestadt V, Khuong-Quang DA, Jones DT, Konermann C, Pfaff E, Tönjes M, Sill M, Bender S, Kool M.... N. Jabado. Hotspot mutations in H3F3A and IDH1 define distinct epigenetic and biological subgroups of glioblastoma. Cancer Cell. 2012 Oct 16;22(4):425-37. Cited 1400 times.
- Jones DT, Jäger N, Kool M, Zichner T, Hutter B, Sultan M, Cho YJ, Pugh TJ, Hovestadt V, Stütz AM, Rausch T. .. N Jabado. Dissecting the genomic complexity underlying medulloblastoma. Nature. 2012 Aug;488(7409):100-5. Cited 764 times.
Her scholarly output includes over 200 peer-reviewed articles published in prestigious journals such as Nature Genetics, Nature, Science, and Cell.