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Brent Richards

ResearcherInternal MedicineMcGill University

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Brent Richards

Researcher

Internal Medicine

Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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7 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 12 research grants (12 CIHR), most recently in 2019.
Supervisor on 9 trainee awards (9 CIHR), most recently in 2021.

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Research

Genetic Epidemiology Mendelian Randomization Genetics Osteoporotic Fracture Osteoporosis Functional Genomics Genomics Vitamin D

Latest papers

Combining label-free Raman spectroscopy and machine learning to identify early biomarkers of COVID-19 disease severity and mortality.
Journal of biomedical optics · 2026
Transcriptomic profiling of severe and critical COVID-19 patients reveals alterations in expression, splicing and polyadenylation.
Scientific reports · 2025
Uromodulin in sepsis and severe pneumonia: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study.
Physiological genomics · 2024

All 10 publications

Latest funding

Impact of Frailty and Sarcopenia on Post-COVID Recovery
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$470,179
Immunovirological determinants of breakthrough COVID-19 disease in vaccinated or previously infected individuals
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$956,250
Circulating Toxin and Common Cancer Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Approach
CIHR · 2021 · Supervisor
$105,000

All 32 grants and awards

10 publications.

Combining label-free Raman spectroscopy and machine learning to identify early biomarkers of COVID-19 disease severity and mortality.

Heidarifard M, Ember K, Dallaire F, Brunet-Ratnasingham E, Chen Y, Ksantini N, Mahfoud M, Sheehy G, Soudeyns H, Jouvet P, Tse SM, Quach C, Richards B, Kaufmann DE, Leblond F, Dehaes M

Journal of biomedical optics2026

DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.31.4.046005 PMID: 41994081

Transcriptomic profiling of severe and critical COVID-19 patients reveals alterations in expression, splicing and polyadenylation.

Labrecque M, Brunet-Ratnasingham E, Hamilton LK, Auld D, Montpetit A, Richards B, Durand M, Rousseau S, Finzi A, Kaufmann DE, Tetreault M

Scientific reports2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-95905-y PMID: 40251257

Uromodulin in sepsis and severe pneumonia: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study.

Eriksson M, Lipcsey M, Ilboudo Y, Yoshiji S, Richards B, Hultström M

Physiological genomics2024

DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00145.2023 PMID: 38369967

Proteomic characterization of acute kidney injury in patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV2 infection.

Paranjpe I, Jayaraman P, Su CY, Zhou S, Chen S, Thompson R, Del Valle DM, Kenigsberg E, Zhao S, Jaladanki S, Chaudhary K, Ascolillo S, Vaid A, Gonzalez-Kozlova E, Kauffman J, Kumar A, Paranjpe M, Hagan RO, Kamat S, Gulamali FF, Xie H, Harris J, Patel M, Argueta K, Batchelor C, Nie K, Dellepiane S, Scott L, Levin MA, He JC, Suarez-Farinas M, Coca SG, Chan L, Azeloglu EU, Schadt E, Beckmann N, Gnjatic S, Merad M, Kim-Schulze S, Richards B, Glicksberg BS, Charney AW, Nadkarni GN

Communications medicine2023

DOI: 10.1038/s43856-023-00307-8 PMID: 37308534

Novel genes and sex differences in COVID-19 severity.

Cruz R, Diz-de Almeida S, López de Heredia M, Quintela I, Ceballos FC, Pita G, Lorenzo-Salazar JM, González-Montelongo R, Gago-Domínguez M, Sevilla Porras M, Tenorio Castaño JA, Nevado J, Aguado JM, Aguilar C, Aguilera-Albesa S, Almadana V, Almoguera B, Alvarez N, Andreu-Bernabeu Á, Arana-Arri E, Arango C, Arranz MJ, Artiga MJ, Baptista-Rosas RC, Barreda-Sánchez M, Belhassen-Garcia M, Bezerra JF, Bezerra MAC, Boix-Palop L, Brion M, Brugada R, Bustos M, Calderón EJ, Carbonell C, Castano L, Castelao JE, Conde-Vicente R, Cordero-Lorenzana ML, Cortes-Sanchez JL, Corton M, Darnaude MT, De Martino-Rodríguez A, Del Campo-Pérez V, Diaz de Bustamante A, Domínguez-Garrido E, Luchessi AD, Eiros R, Estigarribia Sanabria GM, Carmen Fariñas M, Fernández-Robelo U, Fernández-Rodríguez A, Fernández-Villa T, Gil-Fournier B, Gómez-Arrue J, González Álvarez B, Gonzalez Bernaldo de Quirós F, González-Peñas J, Gutiérrez-Bautista JF, Herrero MJ, Herrero-Gonzalez A, Jimenez-Sousa MA, Lattig MC, Liger Borja A, Lopez-Rodriguez R, Mancebo E, Martín-López C, Martín V, Martinez-Nieto O, Martinez-Lopez I, Martinez-Resendez MF, Martinez-Perez A, Mazzeu JF, Merayo Macías E, Minguez P, Moreno Cuerda V, Silbiger VN, Oliveira SF, Ortega-Paino E, Parellada M, Paz-Artal E, Santos NPC, Pérez-Matute P, Perez P, Pérez-Tomás ME, Perucho T, Pinsach-Abuin ML, Pompa-Mera EN, Porras-Hurtado GL, Pujol A, Ramiro León S, Resino S, Fernandes MR, Rodríguez-Ruiz E, Rodriguez-Artalejo F, Rodriguez-Garcia JA, Ruiz Cabello F, Ruiz-Hornillos J, Ryan P, Soria JM, Souto JC, Tamayo E, Tamayo-Velasco A, Taracido-Fernandez JC, Teper A, Torres-Tobar L, Urioste M, Valencia-Ramos J, Yáñez Z, Zarate R, Nakanishi T, Pigazzini S, Degenhardt F, Butler-Laporte G, Maya-Miles D, Bujanda L, Bouysran Y, Palom A, Ellinghaus D, Martínez-Bueno M, Rolker S, Amitrano S, Roade L, Fava F, Spinner CD, Prati D, Bernardo D, Garcia F, Darcis G, Fernández-Cadenas I, Holter JC, Banales JM, Frithiof R, Duga S, Asselta R, Pereira AC, Romero-Gómez M, Nafría-Jiménez B, Hov JR, Migeotte I, Renieri A, Planas AM, Ludwig KU, Buti M, Rahmouni S, Alarcón-Riquelme ME, Schulte EC, Franke A, Karlsen TH, Valenti L, Zeberg H, Richards B, Ganna A, Boada M, de Rojas I, Ruiz A, Sánchez-Juan P, Real LM, SCOURGE Cohort Group, HOSTAGE Cohort Group, GRA@CE Cohort Group, Guillen-Navarro E, Ayuso C, González-Neira A, Riancho JA, Rojas-Martinez A, Flores C, Lapunzina P, Carracedo A

Human molecular genetics2022

DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddac132 PMID: 35708486

Proteomic Characterization of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Hospitalized with SARS-CoV2 Infection.

Paranjpe I, Jayaraman P, Su CY, Zhou S, Chen S, Thompson R, Del Valle DM, Kenigsberg E, Zhao S, Jaladanki S, Chaudhary K, Ascolillo S, Vaid A, Kumar A, Kozlova E, Paranjpe M, O'Hagan R, Kamat S, Gulamali FF, Kauffman J, Xie H, Harris J, Patel M, Argueta K, Batchelor C, Nie K, Dellepiane S, Scott L, Levin MA, He JC, Suarez-Farinas M, Coca SG, Chan L, Azeloglu EU, Schadt E, Beckmann N, Gnjatic S, Merad M, Kim-Schulze S, Richards B, Glicksberg BS, Charney AW, Nadkarni GN

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2022

DOI: 10.1101/2021.12.09.21267548 PMID: 36093350

Common, low-frequency, rare, and ultra-rare coding variants contribute to COVID-19 severity.

Fallerini C, Picchiotti N, Baldassarri M, Zguro K, Daga S, Fava F, Benetti E, Amitrano S, Bruttini M, Palmieri M, Croci S, Lista M, Beligni G, Valentino F, Meloni I, Tanfoni M, Minnai F, Colombo F, Cabri E, Fratelli M, Gabbi C, Mantovani S, Frullanti E, Gori M, Crawley FP, Butler-Laporte G, Richards B, Zeberg H, Lipcsey M, Hultström M, Ludwig KU, Schulte EC, Pairo-Castineira E, Baillie JK, Schmidt A, Frithiof R, WES/WGS Working Group Within the HGI, GenOMICC Consortium, GEN-COVID Multicenter Study, Mari F, Renieri A, Furini S

Human genetics2022

DOI: 10.1007/s00439-021-02397-7 PMID: 34889978

Cohort Profile: The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

Raina P, Wolfson C, Kirkland S, Griffith LE, Balion C, Cossette B, Dionne I, Hofer S, Hogan D, van den Heuvel ER

International Journal of Epidemiology2019552 citations

DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyz173

Making sense of intratumor genetic heterogeneity: altered frequency of androgen receptor CAG repeat length variants in breast cancer tissues.

Gottlieb B, Alvarado C, Wang C, Gharizadeh B, Babrzadeh F, Richards B, Batist G, Basik M, Beitel LK, Trifiro M

Human mutation2013

DOI: 10.1002/humu.22287 PMID: 23377847

Genetic regulation of vitamin D levels.

Dastani Z, Li R, Richards B

Calcified tissue international2013Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s00223-012-9660-z PMID: 23114382

Impact of Frailty and Sarcopenia on Post-COVID Recovery

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Op Grant: Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps & Priorities - Post COVID-19 condition

Principal investigators: Afilalo, Jonathan; Muscedere, John

Keywords: Body Composition; Computed Tomography; Covid-19; Deep Learning; Frailty; Functional Recovery; Health-Related Quality-Of-Life; Older Adults; Post-Covid Condition; Sarcopenia

$470,179

Immunovirological determinants of breakthrough COVID-19 disease in vaccinated or previously infected individuals

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Kaufmann, Daniel E; Finzi, Andrés

Keywords: Covid-19; Host Determinants Of Disease; Immune Predictors Of Disease Risk; Personalized Medicine; Protective Antiviral Immunity; Sars-Cov-2; Sars-Cov-2 Reinfection; Sars-Cov-2 Vaccines; Sars-Cov-2 Variants; Systems Biology

$956,250

Circulating Toxin and Common Cancer Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Approach

SupervisorCIHR2021Doctoral Research Award : Priority Announcement - Primary Prevention of Cancer

Principal investigators: Liang, Kevin

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Cancer Risk Predictions; Cancer Screening; Cancers; Genetic Epidemiology; Human Genetics; Toxin

$105,000

The association between COVID-19 severity, human leukocyte antigen alleles and genomic copy number variants.

SupervisorCIHR2021Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Willett, Julian D

Keywords: Covid-19; Human Genetics; Immunology; Medicine; Statistics

$105,000

CODA-19: a Collaborative Data Analysis Platform to Improve Clinical Care in Patients with COVID-19

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Gr: COVID-19 Rapid Research FO - Clinical Mgmt/Health System Interventions

Principal investigators: Chasse, Michael; Afilalo, Jonathan; Archambault, Patrick; Buckeridge, David L; Cavayas, Yiorgos Alexandros; Pineau, Joelle; Turgeon, Alexis F; Wang, Han Ting

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Big Data; Clinical Trajectories; Diagnostic Decision Support; Disease Phenotyping; Epidemiology; Health System Operationalization; Machine Learning; Real-World Validation

$937,950

Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study (CanCOV)

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Gr: COVID-19 Rapid Research FO - Clinical Mgmt/Health System Interventions

Principal investigators: Cheung, Angela M; Ahmed, Sofia B; Batt, Jane Andrea E; Binnie, Alexandra; Dos Santos, Claudia C; Ghassemi, Marzyeh; Herridge, Margaret S; Lamontagne, Francois; Morin, Suzanne N; Palepu, Anita; Razak, Fahad; Stelfox, Henry T; Strug, Lisa J; Tsang, Jennifer L; Verma, Amol; Yeung, Rae S

Keywords: Caregiver Health; Clinical Presentations & Trajectories; Full Spectrum Of Covid-19 Disease (Mild To Severe); Host Genetic Profiling; Knowledge To Action Cycles; Mental Health & Stigma; Prediction Models Using Machine Learning; Prospective Cohort Study; Sociodemographic And Clinical Predictors Of Outcomes; Transcriptomic, Epigenomic And Immunologic Host Response

$2,112,500

Driver somatic mutations in autoimmunity

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Polychronakos, Constantin

Keywords: Autoimmunity; Celiac Disease; Clonal Expansion; Post-Zygotic Mutations; T-Lymphocytes; Type 1 Diabetes

$1,132,200

Artificial intelligence to create equitable multi-ethnic polygenic risk scores that improve clinical care

Nominated PICIHR2019Team Grant: Canada-UK Artificial Intelligence Initiative

Principal investigators: Richards, Brent

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning (Ai); Pathology; Population Structure; Predictive Modelling

$519,999

Genomics of Aortic Stenosis - an International Collaboration

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Thanassoulis, George; Engert, James C

Keywords: Aortic Valve; Cardiovascular Disease; Genome-Wide Association; Genomics; Mendelian Randomization

$722,925

Identifying clinically-relevant circulating protein biomarkers for osteoporosis

SupervisorCIHR2018CIHR Fellowship

Principal investigators: Zhou, Sirui

Keywords: Bone Mineral Density; Circulating Protein Biomarkers; Fracture; Genome-Wide Association Study; Machine Learning Prediction; Mendelian Randomization

$135,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Brent Richards

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Combining label-free Raman spectroscopy and machine learning to identify early biomarkers of COVID-19 disease severity and mortality.

Transcriptomic profiling of severe and critical COVID-19 patients reveals alterations in expression, splicing and polyadenylation.

Uromodulin in sepsis and severe pneumonia: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study.

Proteomic characterization of acute kidney injury in patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV2 infection.

Novel genes and sex differences in COVID-19 severity.

Proteomic Characterization of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Hospitalized with SARS-CoV2 Infection.

Common, low-frequency, rare, and ultra-rare coding variants contribute to COVID-19 severity.

Cohort Profile: The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

Making sense of intratumor genetic heterogeneity: altered frequency of androgen receptor CAG repeat length variants in breast cancer tissues.

Genetic regulation of vitamin D levels.

Frequent collaborators

Sirui Zhou

Guillaume Butler-Laporte

Holly Tuokko

Isabelle Dionne

Susan Kirkland

Mark Trifiro

Scott Hofer

Mathieu Dehaes

Andrew Wister

Verena Menec

Mark Basik

Christina Wolfson

Philippe Jouvet

Madeleine Durand

Vanessa Taler

Satoshi Yoshiji

Mary Thompson

Gerald Batist

Caroline Quach

Hugo Soudeyns

Harry Samuel Shannon

Lauren Griffith

Parminder Raina

Cynthia Balion

Christopher Patterson

Simon Rousseau

Christina Wolfson

Madeleine Durand

Gerald Batist

Teresa Liu-Ambrose