Research centres and networks

McGill research centres - A to L

Below please find the list of centres from A to L. For centres from M to Z please click here.
  • Advanced Systems and Communications, Centre for (SYTACom)

  • Aging, Centre for Studies in (MCSA)

  • AIDS Centre, McGill

  • Applied Family Studies, Centre for

  • Artificial Cells and Organs Research Centre

  • Avian Science and Conservation Centre (ASCC)

  • Bioinformatics Research, McGill Centre for

  • Biorecognition and Biosensors, Centre for (CBB)

  • Bone and Periodontal Research, Centre for

  • Brace Centre for Water Resources Management

  • Cancer Centre, McGill (MCC)

  • Centre for Research on Religion (CREOR)

  • Developing-Area Studies, Centre for (CDAS)

  • East Asian Research, Centre for

  • Evolution Education Research Centre (EERC)

  • Finance Research Centre, McGill (MFRC)

  • Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3)

  • Host Resistance, Centre for the Study of

  • Human Rights Advocacy Training, Montreal Consortium for (MCHRAT)

  • Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment, Centre for (CINE)

  • Intellectual Property Policy, Centre for (CIPP)

  • Intelligent Machines, Centre for (CIM)

  • Language, Mind and Brain, Centre for Research on (CRLMB)

  • Centre for Advanced Systems and Communications (SYTACom)
     Director: Prof. David V. Plant
    3480 University, Room #753
    Montreal, Quebec

    Tel.: 514 398-8104
    Fax: 514 398-3127
    Email
    Website

    The Centre for Advanced Systems and Communications (SYTACom) was founded in 2004 by virtue of a ‘Regroupement stratégique’ award from Quebec’s Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies. (The ‘Regroupement stratégique’ program aims to create or strengthen poles of research excellence in the province.) The Centre has been formally recognized by McGill University as a University Research Centre since December 2004.

    Its mission is to foster innovation in Quebec in the area of communications systems and technologies via advanced research and training of highly qualified personnel. To mobilize distributed expertise and promote a ‘systems’ approach, the Centre has formed inter-disciplinary teams of university researchers in signal processing, transmission technologies, networks, and software engineering and computer science.

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    McGill Centre for Studies in Aging (MCSA)
    Director: Dr Jens C. Pruessner
    6825 LaSalle Boulevard
    Montreal, Quebec H4H 1R3

    Tel.: 514-766-2010
    Fax: 514-888-4050
    Email
    Website

    The McGill Centre for Studies in Aging (MCSA) was established in 1985 as a multidisciplinary academic unit dedicated to gerontological research and postgraduate teaching on the mechanisms of aging as well as prevention of age-associated disorders. The MCSA is part of the McGill University Faculty of Medicine. Scientists at the Centre are examining the biomedical basis of aging using cellular models of accelerated aging, and other tissues in culture, at the level of organisms with young and old laboratory animals as well as genetically modified mice used to model diseases of humans, and in humans with a cohort of healthy aging subjects. The risk factors associated with abnormal aging are studied using an epidemiological approach, whereas genetics plays a crucial role in our attempts to better understand the role of heredity in age-related diseases of the brain such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

    Clinical trials are in progress using new generations of drugs for the symptomatic and etiologic treatment of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Geriatric research is focused on prevention of falls, nutrition, rehabilitation, community needs, ethical issues and cognitive impairments associated with aging. Graduate students, residents and postdoctoral fellows are supervised and enrolled in departments such as Pharmacology, Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Anatomy, Epidemiology, Experimental Medicine, Nursing, and Physical and Occupational Therapy.

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    McGill AIDS Centre
    Director: Mark Wainberg
    3755 Côte Ste. Catherine Road, Room 318
    Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2

    Tel.: 514-340-8260
    Fax: 514-340-7537
    Email

    The McGill AIDS Centre coordinates, facilitates and promotes research, treatment and teaching activities relating to HIV infection and AIDS at McGill University and its affiliated hospitals. The Centre's offices are housed in the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital. Researchers at the LDI were instrumental in identifying the problem of HIV resistance to AZT and also helped to develop the anti-AIDS drug 3TC. They are researching immune responsiveness against HIV and control mechanisms involved in regulation of viral replication, and are involved in new drug discovery programs. Other activities at the McGill AIDS Centre include the cutting-edge clinical trials and studies on psychosocial needs and treatment of persons with HIV, underway at various sites of the McGill University Health Centre. At least 20 different projects in support of AIDS research at McGill are currently funded by a variety of granting agencies, and McGill staff are involved in teaching at each of the undergraduate, graduate and medical resident levels.

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    Centre for Applied Family Studies
    Director: Dr William S. Rowe
    3506 University Street, Suite 106
    Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7

    Tel.: 514-398-5286
    Fax: 514-398-5287
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    Website

    The Centre for Applied Family Studies, an endowed centre in the McGill University School of Social Work, undertakes activities (such as research, seminars and consultation) aimed at understanding contemporary family life, enhancing social work practice with families, and seeking improved social policies for the family.

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    Artificial Cells and Organs Research Centre
    Director: T.M.S. Chang
    3655 Promenade Sir William Osler, Room 1006
    Montreal, Quebec H3Y 1Y6

    Tel.: 514-398-3512
    Fax: 514-398-7452
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    Website

    Research, teaching and consultation on the biotechnological, biomedical, clinical and technological aspects of the following areas: artificial cells, blood substitutes, cell encapsulation, gene therapy, tissue engineering, enzyme engineering, bioencapsulation, nanocapsules, microcapsules, drug delivery, oral therapy for kidney failure, enzyme therapy, hybrid organs, liver failure, immobilization biotechnology, artificial organs, medical assist devices, biomaterials. This Centre combines the expertise working full time in the Centre with that of the University and also with the international community in these areas of activities. This is the centre for the international network of the International Society for Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes Immobilization Biotechnology. It is also the editorial office of Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes & Immobilized Biotechnology, an international journal.

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    Avian Science and Conservation Centre (ASCC)
    Director: David M. Bird
    Macdonald Campus, McGill University
    21,111 Lakeshore Road
    Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9

    Tel.: 514-398-7932
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    Website

    The Avian Science and Conservation Centre (ASCC), formerly known as the Raptor Research Centre, is affiliated with the Department of Natural Resource Sciences in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences on the Macdonald campus of McGill University. Established in 1973, the Centre's purpose is to foster a greater understanding of the biology, conservation and management of birds through a multipurpose program of research and education. Major areas of research include behaviour, ecology, nutrition, toxicology, reproductive physiology and parasitology of captive and wild birds, as well as captive breeding and management of endangered species.

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    Centre for Bioinformatics
    Director: Michael Hallett (Interim)
    School of Computer Science, Room 318
    McConnell Engineering Building
    McGill University

    Tel.: 514-398-7071
    Fax: 514-398-3883
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    Website

    The mandate of the McGill Centre for Bioinformatics is to bring together people who work on computational aspects of medical, pharmacological and biological research. This includes fields such as computational molecular biology, computational proteomics, computational functional genomics and computational neuroscience. The Centre is also heavily involved in the establishment and teaching of undergraduate and graduate programs. The McGill Centre for Bioinformatics is closely associated with the Quebec Centre for Bioinformatics.

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    Centre for Biorecognition and Biosensors (CBB)
    Director: Maryam Tabrizian
    Lyman Duff Medical Building, 3775 University Street
    Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4

    Tel.: 514-398-7398
    Fax: 514-398-7461
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    Website

    The Centre for Biorecognition and Biosensors (CBB) is a network of researchers from internal and external institutions, at national and international levels, who have a common interest in the development of diagnostic tools.

    The CBB’s mission is to promote excellence of Quebec researchers in diagnostic tools to:

    • contribute to socioeconomic growth;
    • support interdisciplinary research;
    • establish a long-term relationship with industry;
    • share expertise and facilities;
    • train HQP.

    The centre's vision is to be a world-class centre of excellence in research on diagnostic tools using nanostructured biorecognition systems to attract outstanding investigators in the field to McGill University and member institutions. The force driving the Centre is the excellence of its researchers. In this respect, although, the individual and independent effort of each researcher is recognized and promoted, the interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration are essential to achieve the vision of CBB. The multifaceted nature of science required for the development of such biorecognition systems opens a forum for the exchange of ideas critical to nurture the cooperative efforts of the CBB.

    The CBB's mission is also to foster an interdisciplinary research which probes the potential and the limits in the exploration of biology through the tools and processes of bioengineering. We are committed to disseminating our discoveries to students, postdoctoral fellows and research staff and to help educate a new breed of scientist spanning the fields of biology, engineering and physical sciences.

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    Centre for Bone and Periodontal Research
    Director: David Goltzman
    Associate Director: Janet E. Henderson
    Headquarters: Royal Victoria Hospital
    687 Pine Ave West, Room H4.67
    Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A1 CANADA

    Tel: (514) 843-1632
    Fax: (514) 843-1712
    E-mail
    Website

    The Centre for Bone and Periodontal Research was established in October 2001 to promote and facilitate research and training in the areas of bone, cartilage and periodontal disease. The Bone Centre currently represents the interests of almost 50 clinical and fundamental scientists across Canada, many of whom are recognized leaders in research pertaining to disorders such as arthritis, osteoporosis, metastatic and metabolic bone disease and developmental disorders of the skeleton and oral cavity. Their research and training expertise spans human and murine molecular genetics, dental science, biomedical engineering, clinical endocrinology and population health, orthopedics, cancer biology and pharmacology. Under David Goltzman's leadership, and in collaboration with public and private sector partners, this multi-disciplinary team of scientists has secured financial support for the Bone Centre from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Valorisation Recherche Quebec and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.

    The Bone Centre is managed and operated under the guidance of 13 investigators from McGill, Universite de Montreal and Ecole Polytechnique, who form the Research & Development Committee. Over the course of the past year this committee has established facilities and guidelines for the operation of specialised histology and imaging services and established a training program in skeletal health research. The Bone Centre will expand in October 2002 when its management offices, transgenic facility, cell and tissue bank, molecular cell biology, histology and biomechanics labs open in the Montreal Genomics and Proteomics Centre. A clinical component is under development on E1 at the Royal Victoria Hospital, which will house professional offices, patient facilities, clinical labs and the headquarters of the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study led by Alan Tenenhouse.

    The Centre for Bone and Periodontal Research serves as a practical and intellectual focus for research and education in skeletal health. It provides advanced instrumentation for hard tissue research, acts to increase the research capacity of its members and to translate advances into improved diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases involving the skeleton and oral cavity.

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    Brace Centre for Water Resources Management
    Director: Dr. V.T.V. Nguyen
    Macdonald Campus, McGill University
    3 Stewart Park
    Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9

    Tel.: 514-398-7833
    Fax: 514-398-7767
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    Website

    The Brace Centre for Water Resources Management is a multidisciplinary and advanced research and training centre of McGill University. The Centre brings together staff from several McGill faculties to undertake research, teaching, specialized training, and policy and strategic studies, both in Canada and internationally.

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    McGill Cancer Centre (MCC)
    Director: Dr Michel Tremblay
    3655 Promenade Sir William Osler, Room 701
    Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6

    Tel.: 514-398-3535
    Fax: 514-398-6769
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    Website

    The purpose of the McGill Cancer Centre (MCC) is to carry out basic cancer research, which, along with knowledge of the latest developments worldwide in the cancer field, can be used to develop clinical trials involving rational, novel approaches leading to improved diagnosis and treatment. It also serves as the research division of the Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, and is involved in the training of graduate students. Research projects include the molecular biology and molecular genetics of cancer-related cell surface alterations, the cell biology and molecular genetics of cellular differentiation and its aberration in malignancy, and the molecular biology of the initiation of DNA replication in normal and malignant cells.

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    The Centre for Research on Religion

    The principal goal of the Centre for Research on Religion / Centre de Recherche sur la Religion (CREOR) is to study the world's religions in their constantly changing historical manifestations. The Centre's aim is to create a broad academic platform to coordinate and support research on the identities of the main religions of the world, their differences and their common grounds, and how they contribute to a better understanding of past and present-day culture, ethics and politics.

    Lead faculty: Faculty of Religious Studies
    Other participating faculties: Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Law (faculty level), Faculty of Medicine (unit level).

    Dr. Ellen B. Aitken
    Interim Director
    Faculty of Religious Studies

    Birks Building, 3520 University Street
    Montreal, Quebec
    H3A 2A7
    Tel.: 514-398-4121 | Fax: 514-398-6665
    Web site

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    Centre for Developing-Area Studies (CDAS)
    Director: R. Boyd
    3715 Peel Street
    Montreal, Quebec H3A 1X1

    Tel.: 514-398-3507
    Fax: 514-398-8432
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    Website

    The Centre encourages and coordinates student and faculty research on developing areas and development issues. It contributes to an international dialogue on development research through seminars, colloquia, an active publication program and a specialized documentation centre for the use of its research fellows, the McGill community and the general public.

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    Centre for East Asian Research
    Director: Kenneth Dean
    3434 McTavish Street
    Montreal, Quebec H3A 1X9

    Tel.: 514-398-6742
    Fax: 514-398-1882
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    Website

    The Centre coordinates and promotes research in East Asian studies, with emphasis on China, Japan and Korea. The Centre includes specialists on the languages and literatures, history, anthropology, political science, sociology, religion, medical systems, law and other aspects of pre-modern, modern and contemporary East Asia.

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    Evolution Education Research Centre (EERC)
    Director: Dr Brian Alters
    Faculty of Science
    Adams Building
    Room 21, 3450 University Street
    Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7

    Tel.: 514-398-5469
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    Most, if not all, major international scientific organizations consider biological evolution to be fundamental to all life sciences. Yet Canadian and United States students at all educational levels hold remarkably numerous misconceptions about evolution; polls consistently indicate nearly 50% of adults living in North America find evolutionary theory inaccurate to the degree that they reject its scientific factuality. More shocking is that the misunderstanding of evolution and opposition to its teaching seems to be increasing.

    The mission of the Evolution Education Research Centre is to advance the teaching and learning of biological evolution through research. Members of the Centre conduct research on ways to increase evolution understanding, and disseminate their findings to the educational community. This is done with the hope of ultimately improving the teaching and learning of evolution at all educational levels. The membership of the Centre consists of researchers from McGill Harvard.

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    McGill Finance Research Centre
    Director: V.R. Errunza
    Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
    1001 Sherbrooke Street West
    Montreal, Quebec H3A 1G5

    Tel.: 514-398-4056 or 514-398-8144
    Fax: 514-398-3876
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    Website

    The McGill Finance Research Centre seeks to promote advances in knowledge about domestic and international financial markets and improvements in the financial efficiency of corporations. This mission is fulfilled by developing research programs which address current issues confronting investors and organizations operating in a rapidly changing financial environment. Major axes of research include: (i) the valuation of American options and other complex derivatives; (ii) the pricing of assets accounting for frictions; (iii) the econometrics of finance; and (iv) international finance. The Centre provides a dynamic environment for the development of junior faculty members and PhD students in finance. It also constitutes a focal point for practitioners and academicians by organizing seminars and conferences on issues of interest in financial economics.

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    Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3)

    For more details please visit their Website

    Centre for the Study of Host Resistance
    Director: Emil Skamene
    Associate Director: Erwin Schurr
    1650 Cedar Avenue, Room L11-521, A6.149
    Montreal, Quebec H3G 1A4

    Tel.: 514-937-6011 ext. 2434
    Fax: 514-933-7146
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    Website

    Host resistance is a field of study that seeks to explain the diverse nature of resistance to disease. This is a real challenge, because so many diseases, like asthma, infectious diseases and cancer, are chronic conditions where multiple genes interact with each other and with environmental factors. Only by dissecting a disease into its discrete stages can the entire host response be understood. Establishment of the genetic control and biological functions at each stage of disease also makes opportunities for disease intervention.

    Dr Emil Skamene realized that the key to discovering resistance genes is in the skilled, imaginative design and testing of experimental stages of specific diseases. To best accomplish this goal, he founded the Centre for the Study of Host Resistance in 1988. The Centre today has 13 researchers who have various expertise in immunoparasitology, genetic modelling of disease, genome mapping and functional genomics, biostatistics and vaccine development. The strong collaborative energy in the Centre has helped to unveil many prospects for the control of clinically significant diseases.

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    Montreal Consortium for Human Rights Advocacy Training (MCHRAT)
    Director: J. Torczyner
    3506 University Street, Room 114
    Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7

    Tel.: 514-398-6717
    Fax: 514-398-7241
    Email

    MCHRAT has established six specific objectives: to initiate interdisciplinary research in law and social work; to provide training for poor people and the front-line workers mandated to help them in the techniques of legal and social advocacy; to review current and future legislation with regard to its specific impact on the well-being of poor people; to promote changes in the law, regulations and governmental policy which better reflect poor people in Quebec and Canada; to develop model programs to combat the deleterious effects of poverty on disadvantaged people; to encourage and advance exchanges between leading researchers, practitioners and students, on research, practices and teaching in law and community work.

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    Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment
    Director: Dr Tim Johns
    Macdonald Campus, McGill University
    21,111 Lakeshore Road
    Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9

    Tel.: 514-398-7544
    Fax: 514-398-1020
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    CINE is an acronym for the Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment. This Centre was created at McGill University in response to a need expressed by Aboriginal peoples for participatory research and education to address concerns about the integrity of their traditional food systems. Deterioration in the environment has adverse impacts on the health and lifestyles of indigenous peoples, in particular health and nutrition as derived from food and food traditions. CINE is a university-based endeavour to assist indigenous peoples in dealing with their concerns related to traditional food systems, nutrition and the environment.

    Infrastructure funding began in March 1992 and physical space for CINE at McGill University was renovated and opened in fall 1993. CINE reports to the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research and is part of the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition on the Macdonald Campus of McGill University.

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    Centre for Intellectual Property Policy
    Director: Richard Gold
    Executive Director: Elisa Henry-Bertrand
    3644 Peel Street
    Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W9

    Tel: 514-398-6666
    Fax: 514-398-4659
    Email
    Website

    The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP) studies how the changing nature and uses of information and technology challenge existing laws, legal systems, and institutions of national, subnational and international legal governance. The CIPP is not simply a forum in which to study intellectual property law narrowly conceived. Rather, it uses intellectual property as an organizing focus to bring a variety of theoretical, historical and interdisciplinary approaches to bear on broad and highly relevant problems of social organization, governance through law, and the limits of private, public, and international regulatory regimes.

    The CIPP also facilitates contact and communication between academic researchers working in the areas of intellectual property and technology and related fields, policymakers and members of the business community working in these areas.

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    Centre for Intelligent Machines
    Director: Frank Ferrie
    3480 University Street
    Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7

    Tel.: 514-398-6319
    Fax: 514-398-7348
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    Website

    The understanding and creation of systems which exhibit intelligent behaviour: artificial intelligence, computer vision, speech recognition, robot programming and control, manipulator and sensor design, robotic mechanical systems, biorobotics, telerobotics, systems and control theory.

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    Centre for Research on Language, Mind and Brain (CRLMB)
    Director: Dr. Shari R. Baum
    School of Communication Sciences & Disorders
    1266 Pine Avenue West
    Montreal, Quebec H3G 1A8

    Tel.: 514-398-7385
    Fax: 514-398-8123
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    Website

    The multidisciplinary Centre for Research on Language, Mind and Brain (CRLMB) brings together investigators from four faculties at McGill with the goal of advancing our understanding of the processes of speech and language that extends from the theoretical (e.g., theories of language structure, neural processing) to the applied (e.g., bilingual and second language learning, clinical intervention for speech and language disorders). Research domains include speech science modeling and analysis, the neural bases of language, language acquisition, and visual language processing, among others. The Centre provides training for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows, and is involved in the development of new interdisciplinary graduate programs.

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