Valérie Legendre-Guillemin, PhD, received her degree in immunology from Université de la Méditerranée, France. She conducted postdoctoral studies first at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School funded by a French Ligue Contre le Cancer fellowship and then at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research fellowship. In 2006, she joined the department of fundamental sciences at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi as an assistant professor, and she became associate professor in 2010. She won a Brain Star Award from the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in 2003.

Dr. Legendre-Guillemin has focused her work on the role of Huntingtin-interacting protein-1 (HIP1) and HIP1-related (HIP1R) on clathrin-mediated endocytosis and has identified their clathrin and actin binding sites. Recently, she is working on the role of HIP1R on mitosis.