Professor T. Moroy received training in biochemistry, molecular biology, and molecular immunology in Germany, France, and the United States before holding academic positions in Germany between 1991 and 1996. He was appointed president and scientific director of IRCM in 2006, a position he held until 2019. In 2006, he also became director of the research unit on Hematopoiesis & Cancer at the IRCM and was nominated full research professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Montreal and adjunct professor at McGill University.
Prof. Moroy held a Canada Research Chair in Hematopoiesis and Immune Cell Differentiation from 2007 to 2021. His expertise includes generating and analyzing animal models for researching molecular mechanisms of cancer in the immune system. His lab uses multiplex flow cytometry, genomics, and computational biology to study transcription factors GFI1, GFI1B, c-Myc, and Miz-1, as well as the roles of the RNA helicase DDX3X and long non-coding RNAs in leukemias and lymphomas.
He has received 15 major awards, has an h-index of 66, and over 180 scientific publications with more than 13,500 citations. Prof. Moroy has participated in over 160 scientific conferences and given more than 60 seminars. He regularly reviews for journals such as Blood, Cancer Cell, and Nature Journals.
Prof. Moroy has been a board member of the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences (CSMB) since 2015, serving as its president from 2018 to 2020, and currently as its secretary-general. He joined the board of Research Canada in 2016 and became its chair in 2023. He served on the College of Reviewers for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research from 2017 to 2022, was elected to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2018, and has been an expert reviewer for the German Council of Science and Humanities. In 2019, he received the IRCM Medal of Merit for his exceptional service. In 2020, he was appointed to Germany’s “Expert Group for the Excellence Strategy,” and in 2021, he joined the Scientific Advisory Board of Héma-Québec.