IMHL students win Grand Challenges Canada grant
Low-cost water-purifying copper device to be field-tested in India and Kenya
By McGill Reporter Staff
A low-cost copper device, which has been proven to kill deadly water-borne pathogens, will be field-tested in poor urban and rural households in India and Kenya thanks to a $100,000 Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) Phase I Proof-of-Concept Grant awarded to Drs. Padma Venkat, Caroline Kisia and Ahmad Firas Khalid, students in the International Masters for Health Leadership (IMHL) program at McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management.
Major investment in genomics research in Quebec
McGill and the RI MUHC receive a grant for an innovative pediatrics project in personalized health
A research team from McGill and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC) led by Dr. Nada Jabado, a hemato-oncologist at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, has received a major investment of over $5 million for an innovative project on the genomic biomarkers associated with pediatric glioblastoma, a form of incurable cancer. This project aims to develop new therapeutic approaches that are more targeted and therefore more effective.
A winning illustration of corruption that Canadians can understand
Grad student Xenia Kurguzova wins SSHRC prize for visual depiction of research
By Tamarah Feder
Developing and assessing teaching tools for a techie generation
By Katherine Gombay
It’s a complaint heard all too frequently from today’s parents; kids playing video games seem to disappear into another world. But Susanne Lajoie, from the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, wants to harness some of that excitement and absorption and use it to improve – of all things – the way students learn.
Foot soldiers of the immune system
By Bharat Srinivasa
Sankey awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
By McGill Reporter staff
McGill University physicist Jack Clayton Sankey, whose research focuses on the mechanical properties of light, has been awarded a coveted Sloan Research Fellowship for 2013.
Research funding cuts could have serious repercussions for Quebec society
By Neale McDevitt
With the tabling of the provincial budget in December 2012, the Marois government served notice that it would slash some $63 million in funding for environmental protection and health research. Many researchers felt betrayed, as the Parti Québécois had campaigned on a platform that promised to increase research funding to three per cent of the gross domestic product.
Telescope project aims to shed new light on evolution of universe
Astrophysicists from McGill, UBC, UofT seek to probe mysteries of ‘dark energy’
By McGill Reporter Staff
A $4.6 million award from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) will help astrophysicists at McGill, the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto and the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory build a novel digital radio telescope designed to map a larger volume of the universe than any previous telescope.
Three McGill researchers receive CFI Leading Edge Fund grants
By McGill Reporter Staff
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has awarded $10,861,200 to three McGill researchers under its Leading Edge Fund (LEF). The trio will use the money to purchase state-of-the-art equipment to work in fields ranging from nanomedicine to structural biology and nanoelectronics. One of the three projects involves collaborative research with Université de Montréal, which will share in the research funds. The funds from CFI will be matched by contributions made by the government of Quebec.
Wallace’s century-old map of natural world updated
New global map for mammals, birds, amphibians provides important tool for biodiversity research
By McGill Reporter Staff