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Kevin Petrecca

ResearcherEngineering PhysicsPolytechnique Montréal

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Kevin Petrecca

Researcher

Engineering Physics

Health Sciences

Polytechnique Montréal

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.
39 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 8 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 CIHR), most recently in 2015.

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Biomedical Engineering 1102 Biomedical Technology 1901 Instrumentation And Measurements 2518 Neurosurgery Raman Spectroscopy Brain Cancer Imaging Machine Learning

Latest papers

Shining a light on brain tumors: a review of Raman spectroscopy in the operating room.
Journal of biomedical optics · 2026
Label-free wide-field imaging of brain tumors using near-infrared endogenous fluorescence and reflectance normalization.
Journal of biomedical optics · 2026
Dose escalation with intraoperative radiotherapy in newly diagnosed glioblastoma (INTRAGO-II): an open-label, multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial.
The Lancet. Oncology · 2026 · senior author

All 99 publications

Latest funding

Development and clinical translation of a Raman spectroscopy imaging technique to increase the extent of tumor resection in glioma surgery
CIHR · 2015 · Principal investigator
$264,929
Optical guidance for safe and effective brain tumor biopsy
CIHR · 2013 · Principal investigator
$211,407

All 2 grants and awards

99 publications.

Shining a light on brain tumors: a review of Raman spectroscopy in the operating room.

Cutfield S, Ember K, Turner C, Correia J, Petrecca K, Nieuwoudt M, Dragunow M, Aguergaray C, Leblond F

Journal of biomedical optics2026

DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.31.9.090901 PMID: 42701821

Label-free wide-field imaging of brain tumors using near-infrared endogenous fluorescence and reflectance normalization.

Beaudoin G, Blanquez-Yeste V, Dallaire F, Lee SS, Cayrol R, Guiot MC, Trifiro MA, Paliouras M, Petrecca K, Leblond F

Journal of biomedical optics2026

DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.31.8.086005 PMID: 42592302

Dose escalation with intraoperative radiotherapy in newly diagnosed glioblastoma (INTRAGO-II): an open-label, multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial.

Giordano FA, Ganslandt O, Münter MW, Combs SE, Diehl C, Meyer B, Herrlinger U, Schneider M, Kahl KH, Shiban E, Goenka A, Schulder M, Lucas A, Plans G, Brehmer S, Ruder AM, García-Cabezas S, Solivera J, Cifarelli CP, Wenz F, Sarria GR, Pope WB, Layer JP, Tsien CI, Petrecca K, INTRAGO-II Study Group

The Lancet. Oncology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(26)00235-4 PMID: 42372746

Distinct immune landscapes characterize highly versus minimally invasive brain metastases.

Maritan SM, Karimi E, Dankner M, Hernandez-Corchado A, Yu MW, Annis MG, Aghazadeh Habashi Y, Rezanejad M, Liu B, Koudieh N, Pichette E, Fallah P, Fiset B, Wei Y, Nehme A, Lee CG, Elias JA, Park M, Riazalhosseini Y, Najafabadi H, Petrecca K, Guiot MC, Quail DF, Walsh LA, Siegel PM

JCI insight2026

DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.199498 PMID: 42171608

Biochemical and metabolic tissue discrimination using a dual-modality Raman-fluorescence endonasal spectroscopy probe for pituitary adenoma surgery.

Labidi M, Janelle F, Blanquez-Yeste V, Dallaire F, Sheehy G, Kassi E, Zaid Y, Bokasova A, Jemel N, Tran T, Gray M, Cayrol R, Petrecca K, Beauregard C, Lacroix A, Renteria AE, Lavigne P, Leblond F

Pituitary2026

DOI: 10.1007/s11102-026-01657-x PMID: 41854923

Ahead of the Curve: Early Recognition and Effective Management of Radiation Necrosis.

Tsien C, Petrecca K

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2025.12.004 PMID: 41644207

Characterising processing conditions that artifactually bias human brain tissue transcriptomes.

Yaqubi M, Thomas M, Talbot-Martin J, Mohammadnia A, Allot A, Groh AMR, Fancy N, Papageorgopoulou M, Zhang X, McGarry A, Matthews PM, Petrecca K, Jackson JS, Stratton JA

Nature communications2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-68872-9 PMID: 41702898

Author Correction: Cross-species comparison reveals therapeutic vulnerabilities halting glioblastoma progression.

Foerster LC, Kaya O, Wüst V, Danciu DP, Akcay V, Bekavac M, Ziegler KC, Stinchcombe N, Tang A, Kleber S, Tang JLY, Brunken J, Lois-Bermejo I, Gesteira-Perez N, Ma X, Sadik A, Le PU, Petrecca K, Opitz CA, Liu H, Wirtz CR, Goncalves A, Marciniak-Czochra A, Anders S, Martin-Villalba A

Nature communications2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-65072-9 PMID: 41107282

Cross-species comparison reveals therapeutic vulnerabilities halting glioblastoma progression.

Nature communications2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62528-w PMID: 40770193

Somatic instability of the FGF14-SCA27B GAA•TTC repeat reveals a marked expansion bias in the cerebellum.

Pellerin D, Méreaux JL, Boluda S, Danzi MC, Dicaire MJ, Davoine CS, Genis D, Spurdens G, Ashton C, Hammond JM, Gerhart BJ, Chelban V, Le PU, Safisamghabadi M, Yanick C, Lee H, Nageshwaran SK, Matos-Rodrigues G, Jaunmuktane Z, Petrecca K, Akbarian S, Nussenzweig A, Usdin K, Renaud M, Bonnet C, Ravenscroft G, Saporta MA, Napierala JS, Houlden H, Deveson IW, Napierala M, Brice A, Molina Porcel L, Seilhean D, Zuchner S, Durr A, Brais B

Brain : a journal of neurology2025

DOI: 10.1093/brain/awae312 PMID: 39378335

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Kevin Petrecca

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Shining a light on brain tumors: a review of Raman spectroscopy in the operating room.

Label-free wide-field imaging of brain tumors using near-infrared endogenous fluorescence and reflectance normalization.

Dose escalation with intraoperative radiotherapy in newly diagnosed glioblastoma (INTRAGO-II): an open-label, multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial.

Distinct immune landscapes characterize highly versus minimally invasive brain metastases.

Biochemical and metabolic tissue discrimination using a dual-modality Raman-fluorescence endonasal spectroscopy probe for pituitary adenoma surgery.

Ahead of the Curve: Early Recognition and Effective Management of Radiation Necrosis.

Characterising processing conditions that artifactually bias human brain tissue transcriptomes.

Author Correction: Cross-species comparison reveals therapeutic vulnerabilities halting glioblastoma progression.

Cross-species comparison reveals therapeutic vulnerabilities halting glioblastoma progression.

Somatic instability of the FGF14-SCA27B GAA&#x2022;TTC repeat reveals a marked expansion bias in the cerebellum.

Development and clinical translation of a Raman spectroscopy imaging technique to increase the extent of tumor resection in glioma surgery

Optical guidance for safe and effective brain tumor biopsy

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Mathieu Laplante

Alexandre Prat

Rongtuan Lin

Jean-Francois Cloutier

Uri Tabori

Kolja Eppert

Stefano Stifani

Gilles Soulez

Samuel Kadoury

Somatic instability of the FGF14-SCA27B GAA•TTC repeat reveals a marked expansion bias in the cerebellum.