Research
Inducing seizures to stop seizures
Cortical stimulation-induced seizures have the potential to guide epilepsy surgery, significantly reducing hospital stays McGill Newsroom Surgery is the only way to stop...
June 13, 2019
An era of hope for ALS research
The Neuro’s ALS clinical trials are at peak levels Victor Swoboda, The Neuro In the past few years, the number of The Neuro’s...
June 11, 2019
McGill University’s Centre of Genomics and Policy Receives Funding to Create Ethics and Governance Resources for the Human Cell Atlas Initiative
New Policies, Tools, and Support to Enable Efficient, Ethical International Data Sharing for this Global Effort to Map All Cells in the Human...
June 11, 2019
Understanding synaptic genes
International collaboration reveals important characteristics of neuron connectors Broad Communications, The Neuro A collaboration of 15 laboratories around the world, including the laboratory...
June 5, 2019
A contribution of $3.3M from the Quebec Ministry of Economy and Innovation (MEI) allows the CQDM to support five biopharmaceutical research projects totaling $15.5M
These highly innovative technologies will address unmet medical needs in cancer and diabetes Source: CQDM Thanks to a C$3.3M contribution from the MEI,...
June 5, 2019
$27.9 million investment to fund the Québec Cancer Consortium to develop novel therapeutics and biomarkers for cancer
The Québec Cancer Consortium for Novel Therapeutics and Biomarkers (QCC), a collaboration between six leading hospital and cancer research centre sites based in...
June 4, 2019
$4M for open science drug screening
Funds will support development of precision therapies for ALS and Parkinson’s disease Shawn Hayward, The Neuro The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital)...
June 4, 2019
Helping people see again
The Neuro’s Christopher Pack examines how the brain sees the world Victor Swoboda, The Neuro Vision loss can be one of the after...
June 3, 2019
The Neuro collaborating to shape Open Science in Brazil
Brazilian intellectual property researcher Dr. Roberto Reis is collaborating with The Neuro's Tanenbaum Open Science Institute to learn about Open Science principles. Vanessa...
June 3, 2019
Towards a new era of small animal imaging research
A collaborative study between McGill University and the University of Antwerp allows PET scanning on animals without the use of anesthesia. Source:...
May 31, 2019
MI4 unveils first round of Seed Fund Grants
Interdisciplinary and multi-institutional projects aim to tackle infectious and immune threats to human health By Jason Clement, Communications Officer, Faculty of Medicine Formally...
May 30, 2019
Taking stock of the implications of genomic advances
By Patrick McDonagh, McGill News In November 2018, Chinese biophysics researcher He Jiankui shocked the world with the announcement that he had created...
May 29, 2019