Jai Shah named the 2022 SIRS Research Excellence awardee

“Jai Shah is a rising star in schizophrenia research,” says Dr. Matcheri S. Keshavan, Harvard Medical School The Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS)...
April 8, 2022

2022 March winner of the Relève étoile Jacques-Genest award

Filip Morys, a postdoctoral fellow at The Neuro, is the winner of the Relève étoile Jacques-Genest award of the Fonds de recherche du...
April 8, 2022

2022 March winner of the Relève étoile Louis-Berlinguet award

Soyoun Park, a PhD student in Microbiology at McGill University, is the winner of the Relève étoile Louis-Berlinguet award of the Fonds de...
April 8, 2022

McGill Medical Student Receives Medal from Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

Fourth-year McGill medical student David Ji has been selected as a 2022 recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Youth Medal. The award recognizes Quebec...
April 8, 2022

Life-Threatening Illness National Group (LifTING) Research Training Platform funded

Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Fontela! Last month, Dr. Patricia Fontela’s collaboration with Drs. Dominique Piquette (Sunnybrook, Toronto) and Denise Jaworsky (UBC) was awarded...
April 8, 2022

Michael S. Kramer awarded the Prix du chercheur émérite 2020-2021 by the RRSPQ

The RI-MUHC senior scientist will present a seminar on “Maternal and child population health: Will research have an impact?” At its Scientific Day...
March 31, 2022

RI-MUHC trainee honoured by the American Association for Cancer Research

Yasmine Benslimane is investigating how the female hormone estrogen influences the spread of colon cancer to the liver Yasmine Benslimane, M.Sc. trainee at...
March 24, 2022

Cecilia Costiniuk receives 2022 CAHR-CANFAR Excellence in Research Award

RI-MUHC researcher is committed to improving the lives of those living with HIV Cecilia Costiniuk, MD, a scientist at the Research Institute of...
March 24, 2022

Three McGill-led teams receive international grants to advance research on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia

Together with the Alzheimer’s Association, Brain Canada is funding five research teams to develop preliminary data and apply knowledge to the fields of...
March 24, 2022

RI-MUHC team receives Discovery of the Year Award from Québec Science magazine 

Jean-Jacques Lebrun’s team has won the 2021 Québec Science Discovery of the Year Award for uncovering the genetic mechanisms at work in triple-negative...
March 24, 2022

Martha Crago Awarded the German Order of Merit

Germany’s high honour goes to Martha Crago for her career-long commitment to promoting research and scientific collaboration between Canada and Germany. On March...
March 24, 2022

Scratching the fiction itch

Two of our alumni, Jeff Schnader, MDCM, and Graham Elder, MDCM, talk about taking the literary path. For Dr. Jeff Schnader, a career...
March 10, 2022