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Richard Kinkead

ResearcherPédiatrieUniversité Laval

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Richard Kinkead

Researcher

Pédiatrie

Health Sciences

Université Laval

Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
16 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 11 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 12 research grants (8 NSERC, 4 CIHR), most recently in 2022.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2023.

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Research

Control Of Breathing Neurobiology Of Stress Sex-Based Differences Sleep Apnea Development Electrophysiology Hormones Neuroanatomy

Latest papers

Ovariectomy, but not moderate intermittent hypoxia, promotes respiratory instability and risk of obesity in adult female rats.
Experimental physiology · 2026 · senior author
Sex-specific impact of early life stress on adult lung inflammatory response after LPS and Poly I:C exposures.
Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026
Early life stress and disruption of the ageing trajectory in female rats: Insights into the origins and mechanisms underlying the risk of hypertension.
Experimental physiology · 2026 · senior author

All 82 publications

Latest funding

Stress psychosocial d'isolement : nouvelles perspectives sur les origines de l'apnée du sommeil et exploration de pistes de traitement
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
$105,000
Emergence of air breathing in vertebrates
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$165,000
Linking neonatal stress and anomalies of immune development in rats: novel insights into the origin of sex-based differences in viral infection severity.
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$677,026

All 16 grants and awards

82 publications.

Ovariectomy, but not moderate intermittent hypoxia, promotes respiratory instability and risk of obesity in adult female rats.

Gagnon M, Fournier S, Marcouiller F, Michael NJ, Joseph V, Kinkead R

Experimental physiology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1113/ep094077 PMID: 42786687

Sex-specific impact of early life stress on adult lung inflammatory response after LPS and Poly I:C exposures.

Bouchard K, Patoine D, Roy J, Fournier S, Marsolais D, Kinkead R, Lauzon-Joset JF

Brain, behavior, & immunity - health2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.bbih.2026.101204 PMID: 41799281

Early life stress and disruption of the ageing trajectory in female rats: Insights into the origins and mechanisms underlying the risk of hypertension.

Ambrozio-Marques D, Guay LM, Koogler AA, Ostrowski TD, de Souza AMA, Sandberg K, Kinkead R

Experimental physiology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1113/ep093539 PMID: 41620392

Ageing reveals the latent effects of early life stress on respiratory and metabolic function in female rats: Novel insights into the sex-specific origins of sleep apnoea.

Ambrozio-Marques D, Guay LM, Koogler AA, Ostrowski TD, Kinkead R

Experimental physiology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1113/ep092722 PMID: 40684355

Chronic psychosocial stress: A primary driver of sleep apnea onset in rats and humans.

Gagnon M, Fournier S, Gobeil É, Bouchard MP, Guay LM, Marcouiller F, Joseph V, Michael NJ, Arsenault BJ, Kinkead R

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2527702123 PMID: 42607210

Early life stress and hormonal status influence orexin-1 receptor expression in structures regulating cardiorespiratory responses to CO2.

Fournier S, Plamondon J, Richard D, Kinkead R

Experimental physiology2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1113/ep092431 PMID: 40029152

Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing.

Janes TA, Kinkead R

Current biology : CB2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.05.020 PMID: 40555189

On the origins of sleep disordered breathing, cardiorespiratory and metabolic dysfunction: which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Conde SV, Polotsky VY, Joseph V, Kinkead R

The Journal of physiology2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1113/jp284113 PMID: 36988138

Gestational intermittent hypoxia increases FosB-immunoreactive perikaryas in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus of adult male (but not female) rats.

Ambrozio-Marques D, Gagnon M, Radcliff AB, Meza AL, Baker TL, Watters JJ, Kinkead R

Experimental physiology2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1113/ep091343 PMID: 37642495

Electrophysiological Comparison of Definitive Pro-opiomelanocortin Neurons in the Arcuate Nucleus and the Retrochiasmatic Area of Male and Female Mice.

Srour N, Lavoie O, Khouma A, Minbashi Moeini M, Plamondon J, Kinkead R, Michael NJ, Caron A

Neuroscience2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2023.08.024 PMID: 37619768

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Richard Kinkead

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Ovariectomy, but not moderate intermittent hypoxia, promotes respiratory instability and risk of obesity in adult female rats.

Sex-specific impact of early life stress on adult lung inflammatory response after LPS and Poly I:C exposures.

Early life stress and disruption of the ageing trajectory in female rats: Insights into the origins and mechanisms underlying the risk of hypertension.

Ageing reveals the latent effects of early life stress on respiratory and metabolic function in female rats: Novel insights into the sex-specific origins of sleep apnoea.

Chronic psychosocial stress: A primary driver of sleep apnea onset in rats and humans.

Early life stress and hormonal status influence orexin-1 receptor expression in structures regulating cardiorespiratory responses to CO2.

Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing.

On the origins of sleep disordered breathing, cardiorespiratory and metabolic dysfunction: which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Gestational intermittent hypoxia increases FosB-immunoreactive perikaryas in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus of adult male (but not female) rats.

Electrophysiological Comparison of Definitive Pro-opiomelanocortin Neurons in the Arcuate Nucleus and the Retrochiasmatic Area of Male and Female Mice.

Stress psychosocial d'isolement : nouvelles perspectives sur les origines de l'apnée du sommeil et exploration de pistes de traitement

Emergence of air breathing in vertebrates

Linking neonatal stress and anomalies of immune development in rats: novel insights into the origin of sex-based differences in viral infection severity.

Stress and loss of ovarian function: novel insights into the origins and treatment of respiratory control disorders in females

Linking neonatal stress and anomalies of immune development in rats: novel insights into the origin of sex-based differences in viral infection severity.

Emergence of air breathing in vertebrates

Neonatal stress and the neuroendocrine basis for sex-specific panic-related respiratory disorder in rat

Electrophysiology set up for respiratory neurobiology

Linking gestational stress and respiratory control disorder in the developing newborn

Sleep apnea-related enhancement of cardio-metabolic risk: impact of gender, pregnancy, metabolic/inflammatory phenotype and candidate genes polymorphism

Frequent collaborators

Vincent Joseph

Jorge Soliz

Isabelle Marc

Denis Richard

Lucie Jeannotte

Alexandre Caron

Olivier Lavoie

Guy Boivin

David Marsolais