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Genest, Jacques

LC control no.n 50018285
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Personal name headingGenest, Jacques
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Birth date1919-05-29
Death date2018-01-05
Place of birthMontréal (Québec)
Place of deathMontréal (Québec)
Field of activityHypertension--Treatment
AffiliationHôtel-Dieu de Montréal
Clinical Research Institute of Montreal
Profession or occupationMedical scientists
Found inHypertension - 1972, 1972.
Un idéal, une vie, 1998: t.p. (Jacques Genest) p. xiii (b. Montreal 05-29-19)
Information from 678 converted Dec. 11, 2014 (Dr.)
Globe and mail WWW site, viewed Feb. 7, 2018 (in obituary published Feb. 4, 2018: biomedical researcher Dr. Jacques Genest, who died in Montreal on Jan. 5 at the age of 98, helped find a treatment for hypertension; a pioneer in medical research in Quebec, he started scientific research at the Hotel Dieu Hospital in Montreal and later founded the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM); born in Montreal on May 29, 1919; operated the Institute from 1967 to 1984)
Associated languagefre eng