Announcements
McGill to host Remembrance Day ceremony November 11
Sent on behalf of Jim Nicell, Vice-Principal (University Services) McGill, which is now the permanent home for the Royal Canadian Legion’s official Montreal...
November 7, 2012
Michael Shevell: Our children need a commissioner
“In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have...
November 5, 2012
CAFÉ SCIENTIFIQUE: Colorectal Cancer Screening – November 20
The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), in collaboration with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), invite you to...
November 2, 2012
Goodman Cancer Research Lecture Series Session 2 – November 12
CANCER: LOOKING FOR SIMPLICITY AND FINDING COMPLEXITY Session 2: Cancer Below the Belt Cervical and Ovarian Cancer New Understanding of Ovarian Cancer and its...
November 2, 2012
McGill Global Health Night – November 7
November 7, 2012 – 5:00 to 7:30 pm Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish Street Tentative Itinerary: 5:00 pm - Welcome and Introduction 5:30 pm...
November 2, 2012
Joanne Leebosh, Interim Director, Development – Faculty of Medicine
I am delighted to announce that Joanne Leebosh has assumed the position of Director of Development, Faculty of Medicine, on an interim basis....
October 30, 2012
Cuddle your kid!
By New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof As the presidential candidates debate how to strengthen America, maybe they can learn from rats....
October 25, 2012
Key funding for ground-breaking epigenetics research
The McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre will receive generous support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Génome Québec...
October 22, 2012
The PONDER project: Using your brain to ward off dementia
By Neale McDevitt It sounds a bit like the lead in to an old Vaudeville joke: What do nuns and truck drivers have...
October 22, 2012
New rapid and point of care hepatitis C tests could be global game changers
Timely screening and diagnosis is critical to the success of new treatments and ultimately to the survival of hepatitis C patients. A new...
October 15, 2012
McGill researchers link mutation to psychiatric disease
Deletion of brain-derived neurotrophic factor leads to major depression, anxiety, and obesity McGill researchers have identified a small region in the genome...
October 12, 2012
Early life adversity affects broad regions of brain DNA
Study provides strong evidence of a biological process that embeds social experience in DNA that affects not just a few genes but entire...
October 10, 2012