CIHR funding for test for early stage ovarian cancer

Professor H. Uri Saragovi has been awarded $650,000 CAD grant by the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) for further development of a...
August 18, 2021

Major investment renews national research platform on aging

Christina Wolfson, PhD, is a senior scientist in the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience Program at the Research Institute of the MUHC Congratulations...
August 16, 2021

CFI invests $3.9 M in McGill research

In fields ranging from robotics to cell biology, 21 projects are funded through the John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) for innovative tools...
August 16, 2021

Brain connectivity can build better AI

Artificial neural networks modeled on real brains can perform cognitive tasks A new study shows that artificial intelligence networks based on human brain...
August 10, 2021

Promising development in the fight with cancer using artificial intelligence

Jan Seuntjens, PhD, is part of the MEDomics consortium and a member of the Cancer Research Program at the Research Institute of the...
August 10, 2021

New G protein inhibitor identified, with potential for cancer therapies

RI-MUHC team publishes study in Nature Communications describing a novel molecule that inhibits growth of cancer cells Published this week in Nature Communications,...
August 4, 2021

Prenatal exposure to viral infection may lead to transient neuropsychiatric disorders in adolescence

A new study conducted at the CoBrA Laboratory located in the Cerebral Imaging Centre at the Douglas Research Centre, sheds light on the...
August 3, 2021

RI-MUHC researchers contribute to global study of babies born with birth defects

A study published this month in The Lancet examined the risk of mortality for nearly 4,000 babies born with birth defects in 264...
August 3, 2021

Measuring creativity, one word at a time

People who are more creative can think of ideas with greater “distances” between them Can you think of three words that are completely...
July 27, 2021

Distinguished Toronto Scientist Dr. Jim Woodgett Takes Up Leadership of Terry Fox Research Institute on August 1

Vancouver, BC – The Board of Directors of the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) announces the appointment of Jim Woodgett, a senior scientist...
July 26, 2021

RI-MUHC success in grant competition for transplantation research

Researchers awarded funds from the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program for innovative research projects in organ and tissue transplantation Announced on July...
July 26, 2021

Scientists break record while battling antibiotic resistance

Drug-resistant diseases could cause up to 10 million deaths a year by 2050, according to the World Health Organization. Scientists used the Canadian...
July 26, 2021