McGill researchers make Québec Science Top Ten

Annual list of top discoveries includes a new treatment for breast cancer, softer brain implants, and the science of ugly flowers. Scientists affiliated with McGill were once...
January 13, 2022

McGill team’s index predicts coma recovery with 100% accuracy: preliminary study

New Adaptive Reconfiguration Index has crucial implications for clinical management and decision-making in unconscious and unresponsive brain-injured patients McGill-led team has developed a...
December 9, 2021

Multiplexed technologies are paving the way to rapid and equitable screening for sexually transmitted infections

Work by RI-MUHC postdoc Angela Karellis published in The Lancet Microbe will impact worldwide guidelines for rapid multiplexed testing Multiplexed rapid technologies are...
December 9, 2021

FANCI: a new gene at the origin of some cases of ovarian cancer

Researchers link for the first time mutations in the FANCI gene to the risk of developing ovarian cancer Ovarian cancer affects approximately 3000...
December 9, 2021

PhD candidate wins prestigious Mitacs award for outstanding innovation

Prisca Bustamante recognized for developing world’s first non-invasive blood screening test for early detection of eye cancer Every day, Prisca Bustamante wakes up...
December 9, 2021

New Study Explores Medical Cannabis Use Among Canadian Veterans

CannCorps, an ongoing study of cannabis use among Canadian Veterans, led by researchers at McGill University has revealed some important findings after less...
December 9, 2021

McGill PhD student Joseph Therriault named Forbes “30 under 30”

Joseph Therriault, a McGill PhD student working on early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, is one of Forbes Magazine’s "30 under 30" – an...
December 3, 2021

The quest for relief

Investigators at McGill’s Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain hope to find answers for the millions of Canadians affected by chronic pain....
December 2, 2021

The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging targets brain health

Thanks to the Weston Family Foundation, the CLSA will employ MRI imaging and microbiome analyses to investigate cognitive aging As a proud partner...
December 2, 2021

Infection and Immunity Week: at the intersection of innovation and diversity

From November 29 to December 3, the McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (MI4) community of researchers will gather during Infection and...
November 25, 2021

Made in Quebec: Illuminating hidden brain cancer cells

Montreal-based Reveal Surgical has developed a hand-held light probe that helps find the hidden cancer cells that most brain surgeries miss t's a...
November 25, 2021

RI-MUHC study shows impact of combinatorial immunotherapy on an aggressive cancer

Study authors Masakazu Hashimoto, Stephanie Perrino, Andrew M. Lowy and Pnina Brodt A combinatorial immunotherapy may provide significant therapeutic benefit in managing pancreatic...
November 25, 2021