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Nada Jabado

ResearcherPediatricsMcGill University

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Nada Jabado

Researcher

Pediatrics

Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
81 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 6 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 10 research grants (10 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 3 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2017.

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Academic metrics

222

Publications

5,633

Citations

h-index

120

Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

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Research

Dna Methylation Histone Marks Epigenetics Mouse Models Pediatric Brain Tumors Genetically Modified Animals Muscular Dystrophy Neurobehavioural

Latest papers

O-mannosylation and protein maturation checkpoints represent therapeutic opportunities in BRAF fusion protein oncogenesis.
Cancer discovery · 2026
TRAM-01: A phase 2 study of trametinib for pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 and plexiform neurofibromas.
Neuro-oncology · 2026
CD155 regulates tumor growth and susceptibility to T cell mediated killing in diffuse midline glioma.
Neuro-oncology · 2026

All 222 publications

Latest funding

Single-cell epigenome profiling of pediatric high-grade gliomas to detect therapeutic vulnerabilities
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$1,105,426
Investigating oncohistones and oncohistone mimics driven vulnerabilities in bone sarcomas.
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$872,100
Unraveling how de novo germline H3.3 mutations promote neurodegeneration and disease
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$1,243,126

All 24 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 222 publications.

O-mannosylation and protein maturation checkpoints represent therapeutic opportunities in BRAF fusion protein oncogenesis.

Borgenvik A, Misek SA, Christen D, Kyrila G, Zhang A, Reel S, Boisvert M, Cai KY, Kovarzin A, Li H, Zhou KN, Gonzalez EM, Buch-Larsen SC, Hendriks IA, Olsen JV, Anastasaki C, Xu E, Goodale A, Lazo de la Vega L, Ragnoni TJ, Kalani Z, Persky NS, Abid T, Miglietta EA, Vakhrushev SY, Stumpe M, Jones JS, Malinowski S, Elsadek LA, Parikh J, Condurat AL, Fultineer A, Choi SH, Ozdemir M, Eisenbies Z, Lee J, Novikov D, Bahadur S, Apfelbaum AA, Robinson J, Clark LM, Schulman N, Lopez G, Kocher D, Ortiz-Cordero C, Tang K, Maldera A, Bondeson DP, Kwon JJ, Vallurupalli M, Jeon H, Pal S, Jacobs S, Golub TR, Hahn WC, De Smet F, Sigaud R, Fischer ES, Boehm JS, Dengjel J, Clausen H, Jabado N, Milde T, Carpenter AE, Gutmann DH, Cimini BA, Ligon KL, Janeway KA, Eck MJ, Parker Kerrigan BC, Root DE, Jones DTW, Sharifnia T, Phoenix TN, Beroukhim R, Joshi HJ, Brummer T, Halim A, Bandopadhayay P

Cancer discovery2026

DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-25-1114 PMID: 42714308

TRAM-01: A phase 2 study of trametinib for pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 and plexiform neurofibromas.

Sadat Kiaei D, Caru M, Larouche V, Clini E, Pugalenthi Saravanan D, Lippé S, Théoret Y, Décarie JC, Tabori U, Hawkins C, Ellezam B, Ospina LH, Desjardins L, Métras MÉ, Sultan S, Cantin É, Routhier MÈ, Mailloux C, Bertrand MC, Estephan K, McKeown T, Vairy S, Legault G, Renzi S, Bouffet É, Ramaswamy V, Coltin H, Lafay-Cousin L, Hukin J, Alves M, Rent T, Erker C, Jabado N, Dehaes M, Perreault S

Neuro-oncology2026

DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noag112 PMID: 42155032

CD155 regulates tumor growth and susceptibility to T cell mediated killing in diffuse midline glioma.

Tzaridis T, Fernández EC, Eisemann T, Liou A, Andrade AF, de Biagi-Junior CAO, Hope JL, Hewson LS, McNicholas M, De Cola A, Pathania M, Becher OJ, Jabado N, Larson JD, Baker SJ, Califano A, Bagchi A, Gallitto M, Hawkins C, Filbin MG, Bradley LM, Adams PD, Pavisic J, Wechsler-Reya RJ

Neuro-oncology2026

DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noag178 PMID: 42573567

Extracellular Vesicles in the Biology and Liquid Biopsy Diagnostics of Pediatric High-Grade Glioma - Emerging Findings and Opportunities.

Jahouri S, Montermini L, Tawil N, Jalali M, Garzia L, Jabado N, Rak J

Journal of extracellular biology2026

DOI: 10.1002/jex2.70152 PMID: 42256440

Drosophila eye development is compromised by dTet overexpression through altered retinal determination gene expression.

Kleit M, Mantash S, El-Kurdi A, Sandakly J, Shehab A, Hayek Z, Madi J, El Darzi R, Kanbar K, Al Hassan S, Bou Ghannam A, Jabado N, Shirinian M

Developmental biology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2026.07.006 PMID: 42442526

H3K27me3 spreading organizes canonical PRC1 chromatin architecture to regulate developmental programs.

Krug B, Hu B, Chen H, Negrón-Lomas C, Chen X, El Mouatani A, Gretarsson KH, Ptack A, Deshmukh S, Kabir N, Jawhar W, Andrade AF, Jabbour E, Harutyunyan AS, Wang X, Taylor R, Lee JJY, Hulswit M, Faury D, Russo C, Xu X, Yang J, Baguette A, Dahl NA, Weil AG, Ellezam B, Dali R, Blanchette M, Wilson K, Garcia BA, Soni RK, Gallo M, Taylor MD, Kleinman CL, Majewski J, Jabado N, Lu C

Nature genetics2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41588-026-02586-y PMID: 42151415

Clinical Outcomes and Prognostic Features of Diffuse Hemispheric Glioma, H3 G34-Mutant: An International Multi-institutional Study.

Crowell C, Mankuzhy NP, Bennett J, Bandopadhayay P, Sturm D, Green AL, Gupta T, Chatterjee A, Epari S, Chinnaswamy G, Prasad M, Patel SH, MacNeil M, Vanan MI, Larouche V, Renzi S, Jones J, Perreault S, Mata-Mbemba D, Sangatsuda Y, Yoshimoto K, Lin E, Feddersen C, Cruz O, Pavon-Mengual M, Vizzini O, Zápotocký M, Popovacki A, Klawinski D, Hansford JR, Schlosser MP, Omene E, Alexander KL, Satgunaseelan L, Williams A, Yao K, Ronsley R, Cheng S, Ludlow L, Eisenstat D, Khuong-Quang DA, Tabouret E, André N, Matheson K, Chan A, Lim-Fat MJ, Lapointe S, Cayrol R, Coleman C, Juretic N, McThenia S, Khan S, Wright-Nadkarni M, Salloum R, Galvin RT, Sener U, Hawkins C, Imber BS, Karajannis MA, Jones DTW, Ligon KL, Jabado N, Erker C

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2026

DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-25-3764 PMID: 41801141

Androgen activity in the male embryonic hindbrain drives lethal PFA ependymoma.

Zhang J, Ong W, Rasnitsyn A, Gonzalez RD, Lopez Gutierrez R, Balin P, Saadeldin A, Wu X, Vladoiu MC, Santa-Maria Lopez V, Gonzalez-Salinas F, Yadav N, Mohanakrishnan D, Boosi Narayana Rao K, Mooli RGR, Najem H, Pacheco S, Kharas K, Richman C, Przelicki D, Wang EY, Su H, Curry RN, Yang R, Kameda-Smith MM, Livingston B, Scott D, Luo Z, Xia M, Abeysundara N, Erickson AW, Mankahla N, Hu LZ, Pan C, Suarez R, Huang N, Wu Y, Wang H, Douglas T, Pallota J, Hébert S, Ng K, Mantione K, Whetstone H, Maan H, Lakkis H, Lee J, Ramakrishnan SK, Pei Y, Tang Y, Lin FY, Aldave G, Gallo M, Friedlander RM, Notta F, Donovan LK, Chintagumpala M, Wang B, Li Y, De Carvalho DD, Zhang Z, Mao Y, Hua W, Eberhart C, Lucas CG, Venneti S, Sorensen PH, Delaidelli A, Li H, Zhou W, Kirk J, Tang DG, Jiang T, Liu H, Lathia JD, Suzuki H, Rich JN, Stein LD, Jabado N, Ramaswamy V, Lu QR, Heimberger AB, Daniels C, Michealraj KA, Kleinman CL, Taylor MD

Nature2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10264-6 PMID: 41882358

Cerebrospinal Fluid Liquid Biopsy Enables Targeted Therapy Without Tissue Diagnosis in Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas With BRAF V600E Mutation.

Sultan H, Faury D, Weil AG, Westwick HJ, Jabado N, Perreault S

Pediatric blood & cancer2026

DOI: 10.1002/1545-5017.70093 PMID: 41502340

Advancing CNS tumor diagnostics with expanded DNA methylation-based classification.

Sill M, Schrimpf D, Patel A, Sturm D, Jäger N, Sievers P, Schweizer L, Banan R, Reuss D, Suwala A, Korshunov A, Stichel D, Wefers AK, Hau AC, Boldt H, Harter PN, Abdullaev Z, Benhamida J, Teichmann D, Koch A, Hench J, Frank S, Hasselblatt M, Mansouri S, Díaz de Ståhl T, Serrano J, Ecker J, Selt F, Taylor M, Ramaswamy V, Cavalli F, Berghoff AS, Bison B, Blattner-Johnson M, Buchhalter I, Buslei R, Calaminus G, Dikow N, Dohmen H, Euskirchen P, Fleischhack G, Gajjar A, Gerber NU, Gessi M, Gielen GH, Gnekow A, Gottardo NG, Haberler C, Hamelmann S, Hans V, Hansford JR, Hartmann C, Heppner FL, Driever PH, von Hoff K, Thomale UW, Tippelt S, Frühwald MC, Kramm CM, Schüller U, Schittenhelm J, Schuhmann MU, Stein M, Ketteler P, Ladanyi M, Jabado N, Jones BC, Jones C, Karajannis MA, Ketter R, Kohlhof P, Kordes U, Reinhardt A, Kölsche C, Lamszus K, Lichter P, Maas SLN, Mawrin C, Milde T, Mittelbronn M, Monoranu CM, Mueller W, Mynarek M, Northcott PA, Pajtler KW, Paulus W, Perry A, Blümcke I, Plate KH, Platten M, Preusser M, Pietsch T, Prinz M, Reifenberger G, Kristensen BW, Kool M, Hovestadt V, Ellison DW, Jacques TS, Varlet P, Etminan N, Acker T, Weller M, White CL, Witt O, Herold-Mende C, Debus J, Krieg S, Wick W, Snuderl M, Aldape K, Brandner S, Hawkins C, Horbinski C, Thomas C, Wesseling P, von Deimling A, Capper D, Pfister SM, Jones DTW, Sahm F

Cancer cell2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2025.11.002 PMID: 41349541

Single-cell epigenome profiling of pediatric high-grade gliomas to detect therapeutic vulnerabilities

Co-investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Kleinman, Claudia L; Binan, Loic; Pathania, Manavendra S

Keywords: 3d Genome; Computational Biology; Epigenome Profiling; High-Grade Gliomas; Mouse Models; Pediatric Brain Tumors; Perturb-Seq; Single-Cell

$1,105,426

Investigating oncohistones and oncohistone mimics driven vulnerabilities in bone sarcomas.

Co-investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Garzia, Livia

Keywords: Pediatric Sarcoma

$872,100

Unraveling how de novo germline H3.3 mutations promote neurodegeneration and disease

Nominated PICIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Jabado, Nada

Keywords: Dna Methylation; Genetically Modified Animals; Histone Marks; Muscular Dystrophy; Neurobehavioural; Neurodevelopment; Obesity; Organoids; Urinary Tract Dysfunction

$1,243,126

Targeting vulnerabilities in oncohistone-mediated gliomas

Nominated PICIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Jabado, Nada

Keywords: 3d Chromatin; Epigenetics; Histone Mutations; Mouse Modeling; Pediatric Brain Tumours; Signaling Pathways; Targeted Therapies

$1,269,900

The Pan-Canadian Genome Library (PCGL)

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Team Grant: Pan-Canadian Human Genome Library

Principal investigators: Bourque, Guillaume; Boycott, Kym M; Scherer, Stephen W; Bhérer, Claude; Brazas, Michelle D; Brudno, Michael; Caron, Nadine R; Courtot, Mélanie; Ferretti, Vincent; Joly, Yann; Jones, Steven; Lerner-Ellis, Jordan P; Stedman, Ian; Stein, Lincoln; Wasserman, Wyeth W; Zawati, Ma'n Hilmi M.

Keywords: Clinical Trials; Data Diversity; Data Standards; Database; Federated Network; Genetic Variants; Genetics; Genomics; Human Genomes; Portals

$14,940,000

Cell of origin dependencies in pediatric high-grade gliomas

Principal investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Kleinman, Claudia L; Jabado, Nada; Pathania, Manavendra S

Keywords: Brain Development; Epigenomics; Integrative Genomics; Mouse Models; Oncohistones; Pediatric Brain Tumors; Single-Cell Epigenomics; Single-Cell Transcriptomics

$1,189,576

Epigenetic mechanisms of osteosarcoma pathogenesis and progression.

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Pediatric Cancer Research

Principal investigators: Garzia, Livia

Keywords: Sarcoma, Cancer, Progression, Epigenetics, Development

$100,000

Canada Research Chair - Tier 1

Nominated PICIHR2019Canada Research Chairs - CIHR Funded - Tier 1

Principal investigators: Jabado, Nada

Keywords: Crc

$1,400,000

Genetic drivers of medulloblastoma metastasis

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Garzia, Livia

Keywords: Genomics; Medulloblastoma; Metastasis; Mouse Models; Pediatric Cancers

$665,550

Tackling Childhood Brain Cancer at the root to improve survival and quality of life

Nominated PICIHR2017Genomics and Personalized Health -Large-Scale Applied Genomics Res Projects

Principal investigators: Jabado, Nada

Keywords: Epigenetically Deregulated Cancers

$2,650,000

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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Nada Jabado

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

O-mannosylation and protein maturation checkpoints represent therapeutic opportunities in BRAF fusion protein oncogenesis.

TRAM-01: A phase 2 study of trametinib for pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 and plexiform neurofibromas.

CD155 regulates tumor growth and susceptibility to T cell mediated killing in diffuse midline glioma.

Extracellular Vesicles in the Biology and Liquid Biopsy Diagnostics of Pediatric High-Grade Glioma - Emerging Findings and Opportunities.

Drosophila eye development is compromised by dTet overexpression through altered retinal determination gene expression.

H3K27me3 spreading organizes canonical PRC1 chromatin architecture to regulate developmental programs.

Clinical Outcomes and Prognostic Features of Diffuse Hemispheric Glioma, H3 G34-Mutant: An International Multi-institutional Study.

Androgen activity in the male embryonic hindbrain drives lethal PFA ependymoma.

Cerebrospinal Fluid Liquid Biopsy Enables Targeted Therapy Without Tissue Diagnosis in Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas With BRAF V600E Mutation.

Advancing CNS tumor diagnostics with expanded DNA methylation-based classification.

Frequent collaborators

Vijay Ramaswamy

Jacek Majewski

Eric Bouffet

Uri Tabori

Cynthia Hawkins

David Malkin

Livia Garzia

Annie Huang

Adam Fleming

Jason Karamchandani

Ute Bartels

Jason Karamchandani

Sebastien Perreault

Livia Garzia

Daniel Sinnett

Janusz Rak

Mathieu Lupien

Nada Jabado

Adam Shlien

Valérie Larouche

Guillaume Bourque

Sonia Cellot

Mathieu Blanchette

Sheila Singh

Gelareh Zadeh

Bruce Mazer

Boleslaw Lach

Frank Sicheri

Paul Gibson

Anne-Claude Gingras

Stephane Angers

Robert Sladek

Thomas Duchaine

John Lee

Ian Scott

Gregory Pond

Martin Hirst

Michael Witcher