MI4 announces Year 2 MI4 Pfizer Early Career Investigator Award Winners

MI4 is pleased to award funding to two investigators in Year 2 of the MI4 Pfizer Early Career Investigator Award program. Qian Liu,...
September 22, 2022

A step closer to understanding the impact of aging on memory in older adults

Aging is often associated with memory decline in healthy adults at midlife and advanced age. However, it is not age itself that contributes...
September 19, 2022

Faster cognitive decline in older adults with low muscle mass?

For the first time, McGill University researchers have found a significant association between the presence of low muscle mass and faster cognitive decline,...
September 19, 2022

Conversation Canada workshop for McGill researchers: September 22

McGill researchers interested in contributing to The Conversation Canada are invited to attend an online workshop on Thursday, Sept. 22, from 11:00 to...
September 9, 2022

Perception is everything when it comes to the heart

McGill startup is developing an innovative mixed reality platform to support surgeons An interdisciplinary startup at McGill is leveraging its combined expertise to...
September 8, 2022

Fifteen McGill researchers and scholars honoured by the Royal Society of Canada

Recognition celebrates McGill honourees’ excellence in science, engineering, medicine, and the arts Today, The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced 102 new Fellows...
September 8, 2022

Two McGill researchers are awarded through the TRANSCAN international grant competition!

Translational cancer research ties new knowledge to the clinical needs of patients and is the key to developing new ways for addressing, understanding,...
September 8, 2022

Q&A with Cherie Strikwerda-Brown (Villeneuve Lab) on early detection of Alzheimer’s disease

Cherie Strikwerda-Brown, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Sylvia Villeneuve, PhD and lead author of the recent article "Association of...
September 6, 2022

Putting tremors on pause

The first ever trial at The Neuro for a common movement disorder hopes to improve quality of life with a potential new treatment...
August 25, 2022

McGill medical students publish article on sustainability in surgery

In their new viewpoint article, published in the journal JAMA Surgery and titled, “The Surgical Suite—A Field Laboratory for Sustainability”, incoming fourth-year McGill...
August 25, 2022

Parasitic worms reprogram intestinal stem cells to evade the immune system

Immunofluorescent staining and confocal imaging of intestinal tissue infected with the worm Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri (left); authors Danielle Karo-Atar, Irah King and Alex...
August 25, 2022

HBHL funding supports ground-breaking research at the Douglas

Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives, recently announced the results of their Discovery Funds Competition 2, which aims to attribute substantial (over $1M) funding allocations...
August 25, 2022