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Steve Lacroix

ResearcherMédecine moléculaireUniversité Laval

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Steve Lacroix

Researcher

Médecine moléculaire

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.
12 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 10 research grants (7 CIHR, 3 NSERC), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 2 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2023.

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Research

Cytokine Macrophage Spinal Cord Injury Neuroimmunology Neurodegeneration Blood-Brain Barrier Innate Immunity Interleukin-1

Latest papers

Immobilized IgG-containing immune complexes require platelets to recruit neutrophils during inflammation.
The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026
Inflammatory Monocyte-Derived Macrophages Drive Pain via Their Production of Nerve Growth Factor after Peripheral Nerve Injury in Mice.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026 · senior author
Rapid and reliable image analysis pipeline for semi-automated quantification of CNS cell types in MATLAB.
Journal of neuroscience methods · 2025 · senior author

All 52 publications

Latest funding

The contribution of platelets and B-cells to neurolupus pathophysiology
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$1,059,526
Trouble de stress posttraumatique, neurovasculature et biosignature exosomale: raffinement du diagnostic précoce pour paver la voie vers la médecine personnalisée en psychiatrie
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$1,063,350
Identifying the role of inflammatory cytokines in pain after nervous system injury.
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$1,139,850

All 20 grants and awards

52 publications.

Immobilized IgG-containing immune complexes require platelets to recruit neutrophils during inflammation.

Bellio M, Allaeys I, Doré E, Vaillancourt M, Lévesque T, Monteil M, Vallières N, Desaulniers P, Bertrand N, Washington VA, Senis Y, Lacroix S, Fortin P, Belleannée C, Boilard E

The Journal of clinical investigation2026

DOI: 10.1172/jci195987 PMID: 41329518

Inflammatory Monocyte-Derived Macrophages Drive Pain via Their Production of Nerve Growth Factor after Peripheral Nerve Injury in Mice.

Kusik M, Paré A, Monteiro FDG, Nadeau S, Ferry J, Pineau I, Lessard M, Fortin N, Vallières N, Kerr B, Lacroix S

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1897-25.2026 PMID: 42097888

Rapid and reliable image analysis pipeline for semi-automated quantification of CNS cell types in MATLAB.

Castellanos-Molina A, Ferry J, Boisvert A, Chamberland A, Vallières N, Lacroix S

Journal of neuroscience methods2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2025.110590 PMID: 41015391

CSF1R ligands promote microglial proliferation but are not the sole regulators of developmental microglial proliferation.

Hammond BP, Zia S, Hahn E, Kapustina M, Lange T, Friesen S, Manek R, Lee KV, Castellanos-Molina A, Bretheau F, Cembrowski MS, Kerr BJ, Lacroix S, Plemel JR

Development (Cambridge, England)2025

DOI: 10.1242/dev.204610 PMID: 40387575

Sleep-wake variation in body temperature regulates tau secretion and correlates with CSF and plasma tau.

Canet G, Da Gama Monteiro F, Rocaboy E, Diego-Diaz S, Khelaifia B, Godbout K, Lachhab A, Kim J, Valencia DI, Yin A, Wu HT, Howell J, Blank E, Laliberté F, Fortin N, Boscher E, Fereydouni-Forouzandeh P, Champagne S, Guisle I, Hébert SS, Pernet V, Liu H, Lu W, Debure L, Rapoport DM, Ayappa I, Varga AW, Parekh A, Osorio RS, Lacroix S, Burns MP, Lucey BP, Blessing EM, Planel E

The Journal of clinical investigation2025

DOI: 10.1172/jci182931 PMID: 39903530

Constitutive DAMPs in CNS injury: From preclinical insights to clinical perspectives.

Castellanos-Molina A, Bretheau F, Boisvert A, Bélanger D, Lacroix S

Brain, behavior, and immunity2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2024.07.047 PMID: 39222725

Myelin-reactive B cells exacerbate CD4+ T cell-driven CNS autoimmunity in an IL-23-dependent manner.

Fazazi MR, Doss PMIA, Pereira R, Fudge N, Regmi A, Joly-Beauparlant C, Akbar I, Yeola AP, Mailhot B, Baillargeon J, Grenier P, Bertrand N, Lacroix S, Droit A, Moore CS, Rojas OL, Rangachari M

Nature communications2024

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49259-0 PMID: 38926356

Corrigendum to "Understanding the role of the hematopoietic niche in Huntington's disease's phenotypic expression: In vivo evidence using a parabiosis model" [Neurobiol Dis. 2023 May;180:106091. doi:10.1016/j.nbd.2023.106091. Epub 2023 Mar 24].

Rieux M, Alpaugh M, Salem S, Siddu A, Saint-Pierre M, Denis HL, Rohweder H, Herrmann F, Bazenet C, Lacroix S, Cicchetti F

Neurobiology of disease2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2023.106289 PMID: 37722998

Roles and regulation of microglia activity in multiple sclerosis: insights from animal models.

Distéfano-Gagné F, Bitarafan S, Lacroix S, Gosselin D

Nature reviews. Neuroscience2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41583-023-00709-6 PMID: 37268822

Understanding the role of the hematopoietic niche in Huntington's disease's phenotypic expression: in vivo evidence using a parabiosis model.

Rieux M, Alpaugh M, Salem S, Siddu A, Saint-Pierre M, Denis HL, Rohweder H, Herrmann F, Bazenet C, Lacroix S, Cicchetti F

Neurobiology of disease2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2023.106091 PMID: 36967065

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Steve Lacroix

Research

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Latest funding

Immobilized IgG-containing immune complexes require platelets to recruit neutrophils during inflammation.

Inflammatory Monocyte-Derived Macrophages Drive Pain via Their Production of Nerve Growth Factor after Peripheral Nerve Injury in Mice.

Rapid and reliable image analysis pipeline for semi-automated quantification of CNS cell types in MATLAB.

CSF1R ligands promote microglial proliferation but are not the sole regulators of developmental microglial proliferation.

Sleep-wake variation in body temperature regulates tau secretion and correlates with CSF and plasma tau.

Constitutive DAMPs in CNS injury: From preclinical insights to clinical perspectives.

Myelin-reactive B cells exacerbate CD4+ T cell-driven CNS autoimmunity in an IL-23-dependent manner.

Corrigendum to "Understanding the role of the hematopoietic niche in Huntington's disease's phenotypic expression: In vivo evidence using a parabiosis model" [Neurobiol Dis. 2023 May;180:106091. doi:10.1016/j.nbd.2023.106091. Epub 2023 Mar 24].

Roles and regulation of microglia activity in multiple sclerosis: insights from animal models.

Understanding the role of the hematopoietic niche in Huntington's disease's phenotypic expression: in vivo evidence using a parabiosis model.

Frequent collaborators

Eric Boilard

Francesca Cicchetti

Abid Oueslati

Arnaud Droit

Manu Rangachari

Denis Soulet

Serge Rivest

Nicolas Bertrand

Yves De Koninck

Paul Isenring

Louis Flamand

Ray Truant

Marie-Ève Tremblay

Guy Poirier

Marc Pouliot

Joyce Rauch

Bradley Kerr

Vincent Pernet

Jean-Pierre Julien

David Gosselin

Reza Sharif-Naeini

Yannick Doyon

Waliul Khan

Paul Fortin

Jean Gosselin

Alyson Fournier

Emmanuel Planel