MUHC Research Institute launches new website

The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC) officially launched a new website today. The site, which is located on the greater McGill University Health Centre platform, can be accessed in both French and English at www.muhc.ca/research.

The new website provides detailed information on the wide variety of research conducted within each of the institute's 11 research axes, as well as the scientific focus of each RI MUHC investigator. The new site, under development for the past year, has been painstakingly designed to be comprehensive and accessible to all potential users — including researchers, students, industry, media and the general public.

Significant features of the new website include:

• A searchable database of the RI MUHC's 500 investigators, including information on research pursuits and selected publications.
• Information on recent RI MUHC research breakthroughs and inventions.
• Career opportunities at the RI MUHC.
• Internal newsletters and scholarship information.
• A keyword search function that allows users to access information on all research-related topics at the RI MUHC.

"It's a fantastic resource that will raise the profile of the Research Institute and its scientists, and foster exciting new collaborations both internally, and with other institutions," says Dr. Emil Skamene, Scientific Director of the RI MUHC.

About the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)
The Research Institute of the MUHC is a world-renowned biomedical and health care hospital research centre. Located in Montreal, Quebec, the institute is the research arm of the MUHC, a university health centre affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. The institute supports over 500 researchers, nearly 1,000 graduate and postdoctoral students, and operates more than 300 laboratories devoted to a broad spectrum of fundamental and clinical research. The Research Institute operates at the forefront of knowledge, innovation and technology and is inextricably linked to the clinical programs of the MUHC, ensuring that patients benefit directly from the latest research-based knowledge.

About the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)
The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) is a comprehensive academic health institution with an international reputation for excellence in clinical programs, research and teaching. The MUHC is a merger of five teaching hospitals affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University — the Montreal Children's, Montreal General, Royal Victoria, and Montreal Neurological Hospitals, as well as the Montreal Chest Institute. Building on the tradition of medical leadership of the founding hospitals, the goal of the MUHC is to provide patient care based on the most advanced knowledge in the health care field, and to contribute to the development of new knowledge.