Research
Seventeen McGill researchers announced as Canada Research Chairs
From health and disability law to the emerging field of regenerative medicine, seventeen McGill scholars named to new or renewed Canada Research Chairs...
March 14, 2024
$107.5 million for eight innovative research projects led by McGill
The Government of Canada makes major investment in research infrastructure through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Innovation Fund competition Today at the...
March 14, 2024
Bringing rare and undiagnosed diseases out of the shadows
A new network will advance research and care for thousands of people suffering from a rare or undiagnosed disease In Quebec, it is...
March 14, 2024
Dr. Hirsh Rosenfeld Distinguished Public Lecture in Family Medicine: The Challenge of Pain
This year's Dr. Hirsh Rosenfeld Distinguished Lecture in Family Medicine will be presented by Mark Ware, MD, Associate Professor at the Department of...
March 13, 2024
Outstanding early-career researcher at the RI-MUHC named Terry Fox New Investigator
Joanna Przybyl receives one of seven 2024 Terry Fox New Investigator awards for her work in osteosarcoma Joanna Przybyl, PhD, is one of...
March 12, 2024
Study sheds light on how neurotransmitter receptors transport calcium, a process linked with origins of neurological disease
McGill and Vanderbilt University researchers describe for the first time the mechanism of calcium transport in ionotropic glutamate receptors that helps drive the...
March 12, 2024
Fighting the flu: The surprising power of a century-old vaccine for tuberculosis
As Canada’s flu season collides with record strep A cases and ongoing COVID-19 concerns, a new study is shedding light on our understanding...
March 12, 2024
Brains on a dish: Revolutionizing Parkinson’s Disease research with brain organoids
Standardizing and streamlining the process to create brain organoids in labs could accelerate breakthroughs in Parkinson's Disease research Parkinson’s Disease (PD) affects nearly...
March 12, 2024
Health care inequities behind shorter life spans for Inuit from Nunavik with lung cancer
A new study shows that people living in the Inuit region of Nunavik in northern Quebec die earlier after a diagnosis of lung...
March 12, 2024
‘A Scientist’s Scientist’: Rose M. Johnstone
Iconic McGill professor’s groundbreaking discovery impacts therapeutic development to this day “In science, predicting the significance and outcome of really new work eludes...
March 9, 2024
First Research Platforms Fest put spotlight on McGill’s world-class Core Platforms
On January 17, 2024, the Research Office of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences along with the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute...
February 22, 2024
Viagra to treat oxygen-deprived newborns
Treatments to help babies who run out of oxygen during pregnancy or at birth (neonatal encephalopathy) are limited. Therapeutic hypothermia is the only...
February 21, 2024
Repressing a faulty gene
A new trial at The Neuro hopes to use mRNA to halt the devastating progression of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Prion diseases first came to...
February 21, 2024
Surprising new evidence on happiness and wealth
Survey of people living in small, rural communities around the world suggests income not key to happiness Global polls typically show that people...
February 20, 2024