Research
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
Dr. Lucie Côté honoured by the Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Medicine
Dr. Chereen Collymore, President of CALAM, presents a certificate for the 2022 CALAM/ACMAL Veterinary Award to Dr. Lucie Côté of the Research Institute...
August 10, 2022
Overcome SYNGAP1, Wandoan Campdraft for a Cure & SynGAP Research Fund announce CAD $150,000 grant for small molecule translational research to Prof. Derek Bowie of McGill University in Canada
If we could develop an intervention to improve intellectual capacity in our patients it would improve the lives of patients, caregivers and their...
August 3, 2022
Asking about well-being vs. universal screening recommended to detect depression in pregnancy and after birth
New guideline from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care Depression in pregnant and postpartum people is a serious issue. Rather than...
August 3, 2022
Anne Cockcroft: the Participatory Researcher
Anne Cockcroft, MD, is a clinician and public health researcher with a background in respiratory and occupational medicine in the UK. Currently based...
August 2, 2022
Study Challenges Dogma Behind Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Trials
Contrary to early studies, brain levels of enzymes that regulate DNA-folding drop as Alzheimer’s disease progresses, neuroscientists from the University of Pittsburgh, McGill...
August 2, 2022
