Melica Nourmoussavi Brodeur

Bio

Melica Brodeur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and the Department of Oncology at McGill University. She is an attending Gynecologic Oncologist and a Principal Investigator at the Jewish General Hospital and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research where she practices as a clinician-scientist.

She completed her medical degree at McGill University following which she undertook her Obstetrics & Gynecology residency at the University of British Columbia. She pursued a subspecialty in Gynecologic Oncology at the Université de Montréal during which she supplemented her training through the Clinician-Investigator Program with a master’s in biomedical sciences working in the laboratory of Dr. Anne-Marie Mes-Masson. Her interests in translational research led her to complete a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center under the direction of Drs Britta Weigelt and Dmitriy Zamarin.

Her research focuses on understanding treatment response in gynecologic cancers and discovering new therapeutic targets and treatment strategies to overcome therapy failure. She co-leads the Gynecologic Oncology Research Laboratory at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and is co-director of the Gynecologic Tumor Biobank.