On July 17, 2019, Mr David Graham, Member of Parliament for the riding of Laurentides-Labelle, visited the Department of Physiology and had lunch with our graduate students.

Published on: 23 Sep 2019

On September 13, 2019, Campus Public Safety recognized Dr. Alvin Shrier with the 2019 Safety Ambassador Award for his work as Chair of the University Laboratory Safety Committee. To see the McGill Reporter article, click here.

Classified as: dept. of physiology, faculty of medicine
Published on: 18 Sep 2019

McGill University is participating in a new research project titled Tête première (head first), led by the team of neuropsychologist Dr. Louis De Beaumont, a researcher at the CIUSSS du Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal research centre and a professor in the Department of Surgery at Université de Montréal. The project will assess the brain’s capacities to sustain blows to the head during a full university football season.

Classified as: concussions
Published on: 11 Sep 2019

A clinical psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine, Anthony Bossis, PhD will be at McGill University in Montreal on September 12, 2019 to deliver a talk titled “Psychedelic Research: Implications for Palliative Care and End-of-Life Existential Distress.” 

Classified as: McGill’s Institute for Health and Social Policy
Published on: 9 Sep 2019

Researchers uncover new protein that plays key role in bacterial infections

Bacterial infections represent a major public health concern, accounting for over 300 million foodborne illnesses and 60% of related fatalities globally. Salmonella alone is responsible for approximately 93.8 million illnesses and 155,000 deaths annually. Combined with the emergence of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella strains, it is critical that researchers improve our understanding of the molecular details governing bacterial infections.

Classified as: complex traits, salmonella
Published on: 9 Sep 2019

Researchers have long been interested in the question of whether a correlation exists between one’s early-life environment and suicide rates, with studies on the topic dating back to the 1980s. However, these studies have focused on individual countries or on only one or few risk factors. As a result, the lack of any meta-analysis of the data has made it difficult to draw any coherent conclusions.

Classified as: Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Psychiatry, suicide
Published on: 9 Sep 2019

The move to single-patient rooms at the McGill University Health Centre’s (MUHC) Glen site in 2015 resulted in significantly reduced rates of hospital-acquired infections, suggests a study published today in the highly respected journal JAMA: Internal Medicinepublished by the American Medical Association.

Published on: 20 Aug 2019

Depression can be associated with behaviours such as social avoidance, that is, the refusal to interact with others for fear of being judged or criticized. Physicians and other mental health workers have noted that patients with depressive disorders exhibit cognitive symptoms, especially with regard to memory.

Classified as: hippocampus, McGill Department of Psychiatry, memory
Published on: 13 Aug 2019

Marc Miller, Member of Parliament (Ville-Marie–Le Sud-Ouest–Île-des-Sœurs, Quebec) and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, on behalf of the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health, announced today at McGill an investment of up to $6 million for a scientific task force of top researchers to develop new and improved approaches to cancer treatment and care. The funding will be distributed over four years to the new pan-Canadian program, the Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) Canada Metastatic Breast Cancer Dream Team.

Classified as: stand up to cancer, Nahum Sonenberg, Michael Pollak, faculty of medicine, Oncology, breast cancer
Published on: 12 Aug 2019

The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society presented the Research Prize to Dr. Leon Glass for his contributions to research, education and community leadership. Click here for details.

Classified as: dept. of physiology, physiology, faculty of medicine, CAIMS
Published on: 22 Jul 2019

The recipient of the 2019 Louis and Artur Lucian Award is Dr. Joseph Hill from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The award, established through a bequest to McGill University by the late Olga Leibovici to honour her two brothers, was designed to honour outstanding research in the field of circulatory diseases by a scientific investigator or group of investigators whose contribution to knowledge in this field is deemed worthy of special recognition.

Classified as: cardiovascular, circulatory diseases
Published on: 12 Jul 2019

MONCTON, NB – The federal Minister of Health, Ginette Petitpas Taylor, announced today an investment of $150 million over five years by the Government of Canada for the creation of the Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres network.

The network, which includes McGill University and is led by the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI), will unite cancer centres across Canada for the first time, accelerating the implementation of precision medicine so that Canadian cancer patients can access the right treatment at the right time for their particular cancer, no matter where they live.

Classified as: Goodman Cancer Research Centre
Published on: 11 Jul 2019

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Julian Huertas Garcia to the Department of Medicine as of 1 July 2019.

Dr Huertas-Garcia has been appointed to the Attending Staff of the MUHC Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, based at the Lachine Hospital, and as an Assistant Professor in the McGill University Department of Medicine.

Published on: 11 Jul 2019

Source: Terry Fox Research Institute

What is the best way to starve cancer cells? What role does obesity play in metastatic breast cancer and how does it affect the tumour microenvironment? Might combining a chemotherapeutic agent with a drug now used to treat diabetes be part of an effective therapy for metastatic breast cancer?

Classified as: breast cancer, Goodman Cancer Research Centre
Published on: 4 Jul 2019

New research led by McGill’s Goodman Cancer Research Centre improves our understanding of microRNAs

 

Classified as: cancer research, Goodman Cancer Research Centre, MicroRNA
Published on: 27 Jun 2019

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