Research
Health Canada’s COVID-19 response grants funding to three projects at the Lady Davis Institute
Efforts to develop more rapid testing, to determine the potential of existing drugs, and to understand key genetic markers of the immune respond...
March 25, 2020
COVID-19 coronavirus and tuberculosis: We need a damage control plan
In a recent article for Forbes magazine, Dr. Madhukar Pai, Director of McGill’s International Tuberculosis Centre and the McGill Global Health Programs, shares...
March 23, 2020
New Program Launch: MI4 funding for COVID-19 research
The McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (MI4) is pleased to announce the launch of an emergency coronavirus research fund to...
March 22, 2020
Code Life Ventilator Challenge
The Code Life Ventilator Challenge is a 2-week sprint to collect the best ideas from anywhere in the world to create or design...
March 19, 2020
Catching appendicitis early through thermal imaging
Acute appendicitis is more challenging to diagnose than most people realize. A breakthrough study led by a McGill PhD graduate offers an innovative...
March 11, 2020
Homeless Health Research Network releases evidence-based clinical guideline
Substantial changes in the Canadian homeless population require new synergies for intervention and treatment Source: McGill Newsroom A collaborative approach is required to...
March 9, 2020
McGill professors part of federally-funded Covid-19 research initiative
David L. Buckeridge and Amine Kamen have been chosen to participate in the Government of Canada’s global effort to address the public health...
March 9, 2020
Ovarian and endometrial cancers: $ 6M closer to a lifesaving screening pap test
Source: MUHC The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and its Research Institute (RI-MUHC) are pleased to announce that Dr. Lucy Gilbert’s research team will...
March 3, 2020
An Open Access Experiment
Source: Dylan Roskams-Edris, The Neuro When you want to understand something more fully, run an experiment. In mid-January Dr. Alyson Fournier (a researcher...
March 2, 2020
Rare Disease Day 2020
Uncovering the genetic layers of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Source: Victor Swoboda, The Neuro Ask people to describe Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease and their answer will...
March 2, 2020
Using a cappella to explain speech and music specialization
Study suggests humans have developed complementary neural systems in each hemisphere for auditory stimuli Source: The Neuro Speech and music are two fundamentally...
February 28, 2020
Getting off of the blood sugar roller coaster
McGill researchers are pioneering a new artificial pancreas system that provides life-changing support to people living with type 1 diabetes By Ashley Rabinovitch...
February 27, 2020