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Michel Laviolette

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Michel Laviolette

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Prix Et Distinctions

Université Laval

Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

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6 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Supervisor on 2 trainee awards (2 CIHR), most recently in 2017.

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Research

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Latest papers

The clinical value and most informative threshold of polygenic risk score in the Quebec City Case-Control Asthma Cohort.
BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025
S100A alarmins and thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) regulation in severe asthma following bronchial thermoplasty.
Respiratory research · 2023
Bronchial thermoplasty attenuates bronchodilator responsiveness.
Respiratory medicine · 2023

All 59 publications

Latest funding

Inhibition des fonctions leucocytaires par les métabolites du leucotriène B4 : importance dans la défense de l'hôte et la fibrose kystique.
CIHR · 2017 · Supervisor
$105,000
La physiopathogenèse de l'asthme et sa sévérité : le rôle des chimiokines et des médiateurs lipidiques dans le recrutement de l'éosinophile
CIHR · 2014 · Supervisor
$105,000
Genetics of gene expression in the lung to elucidate the molecular causes of asthma and smoking-related lung diseases
CIHR · 2012 · Co-investigator
$502,747

All 4 grants and awards

59 publications.

The clinical value and most informative threshold of polygenic risk score in the Quebec City Case-Control Asthma Cohort.

Pariès M, Bougeard S, Eslami A, Li Z, Laviolette M, Boulet LP, Vigneau E, Bossé Y

BMC pulmonary medicine2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12890-025-03486-3 PMID: 39815278

S100A alarmins and thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) regulation in severe asthma following bronchial thermoplasty.

Gagnon PA, Klein M, De Vos J, Biardel S, Côté A, Godbout K, Laviolette M, Laprise C, Assou S, Chakir J

Respiratory research2023

DOI: 10.1186/s12931-023-02604-1 PMID: 37996952

Bronchial thermoplasty attenuates bronchodilator responsiveness.

Henry C, Biardel S, Boucher M, Godbout K, Chakir J, Côté A, Laviolette M, Bossé Y

Respiratory medicine2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2023.107340 PMID: 37422022

The reduction of airway smooth muscle by bronchial thermoplasty stands the test of time.

Gagnon PA, Côté A, Klein M, Biardel S, Laviolette M, Godbout K, Bossé Y, Chakir J

ERJ open research2023

DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00024-2023 PMID: 37404844

Bronchial Thermoplasty in Patients With Severe Asthma at 5 Years: The Post-FDA Approval Clinical Trial Evaluating Bronchial Thermoplasty in Severe Persistent Asthma Study.

Chupp G, Kline JN, Khatri SB, McEvoy C, Silvestri GA, Shifren A, Castro M, Bansal S, McClelland M, Dransfield M, Trevor J, Kahlstrom N, Simoff M, Wahidi MM, Lamb CR, Ferguson JS, Haas A, Hogarth DK, Tejedor R, Toth J, Hey J, Majid A, LaCamera P, Fitzgerald JM, Enfield K, Grubb GM, McMullen EA, Olson JL, Laviolette M

Chest2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.10.044 PMID: 34774528

Human and Mouse Eosinophils Differ in Their Ability to Biosynthesize Eicosanoids, Docosanoids, the Endocannabinoid 2-Arachidonoyl-glycerol and Its Congeners.

Archambault AS, Brassard J, Bernatchez É, Martin C, Di Marzo V, Laviolette M, Boulet LP, Blanchet MR, Flamand N

Cells2022

DOI: 10.3390/cells11010141 PMID: 35011703

Bronchial thermoplasty: The heat that reprograms the airways?

Chakir J, Gagnon PA, Laviolette M

The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.09.004 PMID: 34509527

Biosynthesis of the Novel Endogenous 15-Lipoxygenase Metabolites N-13-Hydroxy-octodecadienoyl-ethanolamine and 13-Hydroxy-octodecadienoyl-glycerol by Human Neutrophils and Eosinophils.

Archambault AS, Tinto F, Dumais É, Rakotoarivelo V, Kostrzewa M, Plante PL, Martin C, Simard M, Silvestri C, Pouliot R, Laviolette M, Boulet LP, Vitale RM, Ligresti A, Di Marzo V, Flamand N

Cells2021

DOI: 10.3390/cells10092322 PMID: 34571971

Chemokines and eicosanoids fuel the hyperinflammation within the lungs of patients with severe COVID-19.

Zaid Y, Doré É, Dubuc I, Archambault AS, Flamand O, Laviolette M, Flamand N, Boilard É, Flamand L

The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.05.032 PMID: 34111453

Prioritization of candidate causal genes for asthma in susceptibility loci derived from UK Biobank.

Valette K, Li Z, Bon-Baret V, Chignon A, Bérubé JC, Eslami A, Lamothe J, Gaudreault N, Joubert P, Obeidat M, van den Berge M, Timens W, Sin DD, Nickle DC, Hao K, Labbé C, Godbout K, Côté A, Laviolette M, Boulet LP, Mathieu P, Thériault S, Bossé Y

Communications biology2021

DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02227-6 PMID: 34103634

Inhibition des fonctions leucocytaires par les métabolites du leucotriène B4 : importance dans la défense de l'hôte et la fibrose kystique.

SupervisorCIHR2017Doctoral Award - Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Archambault, Anne-Sophie

Keywords: Défense De L'Hôte; Fibrose Kystique; Infections Pulmonaires; Inflammation; Leucocytes; Leucotriènes; Lipides Bioactifs; Macrophages; Monocytes; Neutrophiles

$105,000

La physiopathogenèse de l'asthme et sa sévérité : le rôle des chimiokines et des médiateurs lipidiques dans le recrutement de l'éosinophile

SupervisorCIHR2014Doctoral Award - Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Larose, Marie-Chantal

Keywords: Asthme; Ccl26; Cellules Épithéliales Bronchiques; Chimiokines; Culture Cellulaire; Il-13; Inflammation Pulmonaire; Migration Cellulaire; Médiateurs Lipidiques; Éosinophiles

$105,000

Genetics of gene expression in the lung to elucidate the molecular causes of asthma and smoking-related lung diseases

Co-investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Bossé, Yohan

Keywords: Asthma; Copd; Gene Expression; Genome-Wide Association Study; Genomics; Genotyping; Lung Cancer; Lung Tissues; Regulatory Snps; Smoking

$502,747

CIHR - Quebec Respiratory Health Training Program

Co-investigatorCIHR2008Training Grant

Principal investigators: Maltais, François; Berthiaume, Yves; Martin, James G; Rousseau, Eric C; Schwartzman, Kevin

Keywords: Knowledge Transfer; Respiratory Biology; Respiratory Epidemiology And Health; Student Exchange Programs; Transdisciplinary Training And Research

$1,950,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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Michel Laviolette

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

The clinical value and most informative threshold of polygenic risk score in the Quebec City Case-Control Asthma Cohort.

S100A alarmins and thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) regulation in severe asthma following bronchial thermoplasty.

Bronchial thermoplasty attenuates bronchodilator responsiveness.

The reduction of airway smooth muscle by bronchial thermoplasty stands the test of time.

Bronchial Thermoplasty in Patients With Severe Asthma at 5 Years: The Post-FDA Approval Clinical Trial Evaluating Bronchial Thermoplasty in Severe Persistent Asthma Study.

Human and Mouse Eosinophils Differ in Their Ability to Biosynthesize Eicosanoids, Docosanoids, the Endocannabinoid 2-Arachidonoyl-glycerol and Its Congeners.

Bronchial thermoplasty: The heat that reprograms the airways?

Biosynthesis of the Novel Endogenous 15-Lipoxygenase Metabolites N-13-Hydroxy-octodecadienoyl-ethanolamine and 13-Hydroxy-octodecadienoyl-glycerol by Human Neutrophils and Eosinophils.

Chemokines and eicosanoids fuel the hyperinflammation within the lungs of patients with severe COVID-19.

Prioritization of candidate causal genes for asthma in susceptibility loci derived from UK Biobank.

Inhibition des fonctions leucocytaires par les métabolites du leucotriène B4 : importance dans la défense de l'hôte et la fibrose kystique.

La physiopathogenèse de l'asthme et sa sévérité : le rôle des chimiokines et des médiateurs lipidiques dans le recrutement de l'éosinophile

Genetics of gene expression in the lung to elucidate the molecular causes of asthma and smoking-related lung diseases

CIHR - Quebec Respiratory Health Training Program

Frequent collaborators

Louis-Philippe Boulet

Nicolas Flamand

Jamila Chakir

Philippe Joubert

Vincenzo Di Marzo

Catherine Laprise

Ma'en Obeidat

David Marsolais

Louis Flamand

Elyse Bissonnette

Gail Gauvreau

Yvon Cormier

Carole Yauk

Roxane Pouliot

Martin R Stampfli

Christopher Carlsten

Tomi Pastinen

Patrick Mathieu

Paul O'Byrne

Kieran Killian

Alain Veilleux