Ventilator Challenge: Announcement of the Three Finalist Teams

  Source: Montreal General Hospital Foundation The Montreal General Hospital Foundation and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre are pleased to...
May 6, 2020

$1.3M to develop a non-invasive positron detector for medical imaging

Source: RI-MUHC Congratulations to Shirin Abbasinejad Enger, PhD, a scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, who has been awarded...
May 5, 2020

The Digital Migration: Lessons About Open Science Arising from the COVID19 Crisis

In the wake of COVID19, the world is scrambling to figure out how to continue the functions of normal life while confined to...
May 4, 2020

A focus on physician wellness

Source: Alumni News Even at the best of times, many physicians are exposed to more than their share of suffering on a daily...
May 4, 2020

Powers and accountability in the face of emergency

McGill Faculty of Law professors Lara Khoury and Alana Klein, along with Marie-Eve Couture Ménard, DCL’14,  from the University of Sherbrooke, have received funding from...
May 1, 2020

Head of AIDS research at McGill receives funding to study COVID-19 transmissibility

The Acting Director of the McGill AIDS Centre, Dr. Chen Liang, recently received $480,000 in funding from Health Canada’s COVID-19 response grants. Dr....
April 30, 2020

The Quebec COVID-19 Biobank – an essential weapon against COVID

Inter-institutional initiative is similar to other efforts abroad to catalogue samples gathered from COVID-19 patients, but the quality of the data and samples,...
April 30, 2020

Better understanding of nature’s nanomachines may help in design of future drugs

Source: McGill Newsroom Many of the drugs and medicines that we rely on today are natural products taken from microbes like bacteria and...
April 30, 2020

The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre brings and tests the first UV-Disinfection robot in Canada

Source: MUHC The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) is proud to announce it will complete the first evaluation of...
April 30, 2020

Making sense of Quebec’s COVID-19 data

McGill math modellers crunch government numbers to shine a light on real time transmission rates and provide short-term forecasts    By Gillian Woodford...
April 30, 2020

RI-MUHC investigator joins Global Consortium of Chemosensory Researchers (GCCR) in rapid response to COVID-19

GCCR group develops worldwide survey on smell loss Source: RI-MUHC and GCCR Following reports from patients and clinicians about rapid onset smell loss,...
April 29, 2020

Largest synthesis of known protein-protein interactions published in the journal Nature

RI-MUHC researchers on international team that produced the blueprint Source: RI-MUHC Life is defined by proteins and their ability to interact with one...
April 28, 2020