Research Tuberculosis Day on World TB Day – March 24

The McGill International TB Centre / WHO Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis Research will hold its 10th Annual Research TB Day on World TB Day on March 24,...
March 22, 2023

Too much pruning: A new study sheds light on how neurodegeneration occurs in the brain

A Montreal research team demonstrates how genetic mutations cause brain cell death and inflammation by derailing synaptic pruning  Just like pruning a tree...
March 22, 2023

ALS Canada and Brain Canada invest more than $1.4 million in ALS research grants 

Nine projects to advance the ALS research landscape funded through ALS Society of Canada and Brain Canada partnership, with support from the Dr....
March 22, 2023

Learning how to make the world happier

For the International Day of Happiness, we spoke with Chris Barrington-Leigh whose research considers the social, psychological, and economic implications of happiness and...
March 22, 2023

More than $23M awarded to SBMS researchers in the latest Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Competition

On February 2, 2023, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) announced the results of the Fall 2022 Project Grant competition, which provided...
March 14, 2023

RI-MUHC researcher has a new global role to play, on and beyond World Kidney Day

Dr. Rita Suri celebrates World Kidney Day on March 9 as a member of the Executive Committee of Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes...
March 9, 2023

Antonia Arnaert: First professor in history of McGill Nursing to obtain patent

Antonia Arnaert, PhD, wears many hats: public health expert, educator, researcher, innovator, and entrepreneur. With one patent already provisionally approved in the U.S....
March 9, 2023

Genes reveal kidney cancer’s risk of recurrence

DNA sequencing may provide a more effective way to predict a patient’s risk of kidney cancer recurrence and could one day lead to...
March 9, 2023

Professor emerita Dusica Maysinger talks about the future of neuromedicine

Dusica Maysinger, PhD, Professor Emerita in the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, reflects on her journey to Canada and McGill, her research on...
March 8, 2023

Meet Claude Bhérer, a McGill Professor who is using population genetics research for the treatment of rare diseases

Claude Bhérer, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics in the School of Biomedical Sciences, is fusing her passion for...
March 8, 2023

New interdisciplinary seminar series cross-cuts the biomedical sciences

Following the social solitary confinement caused by COVID-19, Judith Mandl, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology, and her colleague Irah King,...
February 23, 2023

Introducing The TeleRehab SPOT

New online knowledge hub of virtual care practices for rehab clinicians launched by McGill’s School of Physical & Occupational Therapy   Launched in February...
February 23, 2023