Professor Pier Jr Morin receives the Prix d’excellence en encadrement

Pier Jr Morin, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was awarded the Prix d’excellence en encadrement at the graduation ceremony for the Moncton campus held on May 26.

The Université de Moncton awards this prize to a professor who has distinguished herself or himself in recent years through a deep commitment to her or his students’ education by providing exceptional mentorship. The recognition is accompanied by a cash award of $1,000.

Professor Morin holds a bachelor’s degree from Concordia University in Montréal (1999-2002) and a doctorate from Carleton University in Ottawa (2002-2006).

He was the first to show differential expression in miRNAs, noncoding ribonucleic acids able, among other things, to regulate various cellular processes in natural models of hypometabolism. These noncoding RNAs are the central theme behind all the various types of research under way in his laboratory. He then travelled to Basel in Switzerland to work at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (2006-2008) as a postdoctoral research fellow on a project to identify new therapeutic targets in glioblastoma multiformes, an aggressive brain tumour. He completed his academic education with an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in London (2008-2009).

To date, Professor Morin has published 45 articles in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals, nearly twenty of which as senior investigator. Since arriving at the Université de Moncton as a professor in 2009, he has received, alone or as a co-applicant, over $1,500,000 in research grants from several organizations, such as the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Brain Tumor Foundation of Canada, the ALS Society of Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

We should also mention that to date he has supervised or co-supervised over forty students at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels. These students, thanks to frequent dissemination of their work in peer-reviewed scientific journals and presentation of their results in multiple regional and national conferences, are the main reasons for the obvious scientific productivity associated with Professor Morin’s laboratory for nearly a decade.


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