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CRCHUM EGGLAB
GREG FITZHARRIS OOCYTE AND EMBRYO RESEARCH LAB


Our lab is a basic science and translational research group located in the Research Centre at the University of Montreal Hospital CRCHUM. We aim to understand the cellular basis of infertility by unravelling how healthy oocytes (eggs) and embryos are made, specialising in live cellular imaging and Cell Biology approaches.

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Lab R12.228, CRCHUM, 900 Rue St Denis
Montreal, Quebec, H2X 0A9, CANADA


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July 2025
Meritas award /scholarship, offered by the CHUM Foundation, awarded to Helia Motamedi.

June 2025
Publication of a new paper by Filip Vasilev et al. in Development Cell. Long-lived cytokinetic bridges coordinate sister-cell elimination in mouse embryos. Dev Cell, Volume 60, Issue 11, 1521 - 1531.e5​

May 2025
Best oral presentation award at the 2025 CRRD Research Day, awarded to Krutika Patil.

May 2025
Best poster presentation award at the Research Day of the Molecular Biology Program of the Faculty of Medicine at UdeM, received by Sydney Cohen.

January 2025
Excellence scholarship received by Helia Motamedi through the ODISÉ network.

December 2024
Best oral presentation awards at the Research Day of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UdeM, received by Valeriy Kutsyna and by Sydney Cohen. Lab was also awarded best basics research paper of the year.

October 2024
Helia Motamedi got a grant after the competition organized by UdeM CRRF

May 2024
Sydney Cohen was awarded a grant from FRQS/CIHR

Avril 2024
Sydney Cohen got a prize for best poster at UdeM PBC research day

March 2024
If you are culturing oocytes or embryos, go have a look at this  paper: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2024.1337937

January 2024
Yanwen Jiang was awarded a FRQS grant for his postdoctoral fellowship

December 2023
Sydney Cohen was successful in getting a CRRD Fellowship
 
October 2023
Have a look at work by Aleksandar Mihajlovic published in EMBO Reports
 
September 2023
Krutika Patil was awarded a FRQS grant for her postdoctoral fellowship
 
July 2023
SSR Lalor Foundation Merit Award win for Filip Vasilev 
SSR annual meeting 2nd place for Filip Vasilev's presentation in the post doctoral category

May 2023
After completing an exchange program China-Canada, Yin Lin has published a paper on kinetochores
 
April 2023
Éliane Boucher has win a CRRD Summer Scholarship
Aleksandar Mihajlovic had the best poster presentation at the 15th CRRD Annual Research Day

March 2022
Paper published in PNAS, featuring work by Lia Paim
Henry Brennan-Craddock won best poster award at the UdeM Ob-Gyn Day
Adélaïde Allais got an award for best international conference presentation at the 2022 UdeM Ob-Gyn Day
 
January 2022
Lin Yin got the 2nd place for her poster presentation at the SRF Fertility 2022 meeting
 
December 2021
Henry Brennan-Craddock merited a trainee fellowship granted by the CRRD at McGill University
 
November 2021
Karolina Kravarikova got 4th place for overall best presentations at the UdeM Biomolecular research Day
 
August 2021
Paper published in Developmental Cell, leaded by Aleksandar Mihajlovic. Broadcasted in several media: CTV news; LaPresse; UdeM nouvelles; etc.
 
January 2021
Lia Paim won best poster at 2021 SRF annual meeting
 
November 2020
Prize won by Aleksandar Mihajlovic for best oral presentation at the Reseau Quebecois en Reproduction annual meeting
 
June 2020
Lia Paim publishes a hypothesis paper in Reproduction, proposing a model as to when embryo binucleation causes aneuploidy
 
March 2020
Paper published by Gaudeline Rémillard-Labrosse with the help of many others from CRCHUM lab and McGill Fertility Clinic in Fertility and Sterility
 
Jan 2020
Paper published by Angus Macaulay and Adélaïde Allais in FASEB

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