Education
World TB Day @ McGill
Every year, on March 24, the world observes World TB Day. TB is one of the world's top health challenges with 9 million...
March 24, 2015
Canada and the UK join forces on dementia research
Montreal, March 16, 2015 – The Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) joins forces with the Medical Research Council’s Dementia Platform UK (DPUK)to share data and...
March 19, 2015
Quebec Government names PDGs and APDGs for newly created CISSSs and CIUSSSs
Over the course of the past two weeks, Quebec’s Ministry of Health and Social Services has confirmed the appointments of the President-Director-Generals (PDG) and Associate...
March 11, 2015
JGH sports medicine doctor launches on-line physical activity course this week
Dr. Ian Shrier seeks nothing less than changing the culture to where inactivity becomes aberrant behaviour Montreal, February 23, 2015 – In an...
February 23, 2015
Med4 Class Launches Senior Class Gift Campaign
The Class of 2015 gathered at lunchtime in the Martin Theatre on February 19 – the same day as their rank order lists...
February 20, 2015
$1.4 million bequest creates Richard I. Kaufman Cardiovascular Scholars Fund
Last summer, brothers Daniel and Jimmy Kaufman approached Marc Weinstein, Vice-Principal of University Advancement, to share the news that their brother, Richard Kaufman,...
February 19, 2015
Two Faculty of Medicine projects among the $4.7M in NSERC project grants awarded to McGill researchers
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced 78 Strategic Project Grants on February 10, 2015 at the University of New...
February 12, 2015
Socioeconomic differences in adolescent health getting wider
Global trends in health inequalities related to income inequality Health inequalities in young people have grown alongside socioeconomic disparities between the rich...
February 4, 2015
Speak up for Mental Health
In order to promote mental health awareness, medical and dental students from McGill University launched a photo campaign and shared their thoughts and...
January 20, 2015
Apply Now! Rossy Cancer Network Research Grants
The Rossy Cancer Network Research Grants support research initiatives in improving cancer care quality for patients in the network. What’s this? The annual...
January 16, 2015
First-year McGill medical student publishes novel
Jean-Baptiste Roberge was raised in Québec city and then in Montréal. He studied natural sciences at Cégep du Vieux Montréal prior to being...
January 15, 2015
Genetic discovery about childhood blindness
Dr. Robert Koenekoop, director of the McGill Ocular Genetics Laboratory at The Montreal Children’s Hospital of the MUHC, co-led this research. Finding genes...
January 14, 2015