Dr. Rodier completed his doctoral studies at the Université de Montréal in the molecular biology program as well as post-doctoral training at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley and at the Buck Institute for Age research in Novato California. In 2010, he was recruited by the CRCHUM and the Institut du cancer de Montréal through the brain repatriation program of the Institute Foundation. His laboratory studies cell fate decisions in response to cancer therapy.