Dr. Mark Wainberg elected Fellow of AAAS

Dr. Mark Wainberg has been elected a Fellow of  the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In November 2011, the AAAS...
January 19, 2012

Dr. Raquel del Carpio-O’Donavan recipient of the RCPSC’s “Mentor of the Year 2010” award for Region 4 (Quebec)

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) distinguished Dr. Raquel del Carpio-O’Donavan with the "Mentor of the Year 2010" award...
January 19, 2012

Four McGill discoveries among Québec Science magazine’s top 10 of 2011

Breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s, pain, geography research and orthopedic surgery included in annual ranking Four of the top ten scientific breakthroughs of 2011 selected...
January 9, 2012

Exceptional contributions to cancer research recognized

TORONTO, Nov. 23, 2011 /CNW/ - The Canadian Cancer Research Alliance (CCRA) announced today the recipients of its inaugural awards, which recognize contributions...
November 25, 2011

Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation to grant $8.1 million to Quebec-based research teams, including nine researchers from the McGill Community

From the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation website: Thanks to numerous fundraising activities and the many partnerships formed in the last three years, the...
November 17, 2011

McGill Postdoc Honoured by Le Monde

Aurélie Cobat, a post-doctoral fellow at McGill’s Centre for the Study of Host Resistance in the Faculty of Medicine, is one of five...
November 7, 2011

James Hanley, 2011 Recipient of the Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching

Dr. James Hanley, from the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, is the 2011 Recipient of the Principal's Prize for Excellence in...
November 1, 2011

Nahum Sonenberg to receive 41st Rosenstiel Award

Nahum Sonenberg, professor of biochemistry at the Goodman Cancer Research Center at McGill University, has been awarded the 41st Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award...
October 27, 2011

Prestigious Pearl Meister Greengard Prize to be awarded to pioneering memory researcher Brenda Milner

Dr. Brenda Milner, a pioneer in the field of cognitive neuroscience whose discoveries revolutionized the understanding of memory, will be awarded the 2011...
October 27, 2011

Drs. F. Clarke Fraser and Peter T. Macklem named to Canadian Medical Hall of Fame for 2012

Dr. F. Clarke Fraser, one of Canada’s first medical geneticists, and Dr. Peter T. Macklem (1931-2011), one of Canada’s greatest pulmonary clinician-scientists, will...
October 20, 2011

Dr. Alessandra Duncan Awarded the 2011 Dr. John L. Hamerton Service Award from the CCMG

    Dr. Alessandra Duncan has received the 2011 Dr. John L. Hamerton Service Award from the Canadian College of Medical Geneticists (CCMG)....
October 20, 2011

2011 Canada Research Chairs

  From the Canada Research Chairs website (www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca): GUELPH, Ontario, October 12, 2011 | Scientists at universities across Canada will begin new research...
October 18, 2011