Dr Mario Chevrette has been appointed scientific director of the Quebec Consortium for Drug Discovery (CQDM) with responsibility for all scientific affairs including funding programs and project management, establishing research partnerships and liaising with pharmaceutical members. Chevrette was previously scientific director of the Cancer Research Society. He holds a PhD in molecular and cellular biology from Laval Univ. In the 1990s he was a professor at the Univ of Ottawa and McGill Univ....