McGill research centres - M to Z

Below please find the list of centres from M to Z. For centres from A to L please click here.

• McGill Institute for Advanced Materials (MIAM)
• McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
• McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC)
• Medicine, Ethics and Law, McGill Centre for
• Metals Processing Centre, McGill
• Music, Media and Technology, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in (CIRMMT)
• Neuroscience, Centre for Research in
• Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, Centre for
• Nutrition and Food Science Centre
• Pain, McGill Centre for Research on
• Physics of Materials, Centre for the
• Polymer McGill
• Pulp and Paper Research Centre
• Regulated Industries, Centre for the Study of
• Research on Religion, Centre for
• Reproductive Centre, McGill
• Self Assembled Chemical Structures, Centre for (CSACS)
• Society, Technology and Development, McGill Centre for (STANDD)
• Strategy Studies in Organizations, Centre for
• Translational Research in Cancer, McGill Centre for
• Tropical Diseases, Centre for
• Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviours, International Centre for

McGill Institute for Advanced Materials
Director: Jorge Vinals
215 Ernest Rutherford
3600 University Street
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T8

Tel: 514-398-2766
Fax: 514-398-8434
Secretary: 514-398-6490
Email
Website

New materials are considered by knowledge-based economies to be a precursor to many technological developments necessary for development and growth, and have been identified as one of Canada's strategic areas of research. Many important developments in communications, information technology, transportation, clinical diagnosis and care, and energy generation, for example, have resulted from engineering innovations -- behind each of which lies the creation of the materials, often revolutionary, necessary for these technologies. As such, advanced materials has been identified as a priority area for McGill. MIAM, as established by the Faculties of Science and Engineering, will act as a focal point for research for all forms of advanced materials at McGill.

The fundamental vision underlying MIAM is to discover, design, fabricate, and understand new materials. MIAM will strengthen interdisciplinary interactions and partnerships among the many different faculties and departments at McGill University involved in new materials. It will foster creativity, promote scholarship, enhance research capabilities, accelerate the transfer of research results into engineering practices, attract world-class faculty, students, and post-docs, grab the attention of industry, and create new funding opportunities. MIAM will achieve this by financially supporting the operation of core materials research infrastructure, developing new academic initiatives, and increasing the internal as well as external visibility of Materials Science and Engineering at McGill University.

McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Director: Marguerite Deslauriers
3487 Peel Street, Second Floor
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7

Tel.: 514-398-3911
Fax: 514-398-3986
Email: info.igfs@mcgill.ca
Web site: www.mcgill.ca/igsf/

The IGSF came into being at the end of March 2009, as an academic unit in the Faculty of Arts. Its aim is to stimulate, support and disseminate research in gender, sexual diversity, and feminist studies. Research activities focus on five axes, all interdisciplinary. The IGSF is also the administrative site for McGill's Sexual Diversity Studies Program and the Women's Studies Program, and part of our mission is to train graduate students in these fields (through the Option in Gender and Women’s Studies). The IGSF organizes public events, including symposia, public lectures, workshops and a seminar series. The Institute also hosts visiting scholars, supports student organizations, and works with community groups.

McGill Institute for the Study of Canada Director: Antonia Maioni
3463 Peel Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7

Tel.: 514-398-8346
Fax: 514-398-7336
Email
Web site

The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada was established in 1994 to promote research and teaching of Canadian Studies. The Institute's goal is to add new dynamism to the study of Canada at McGill. The Institute hosts at least one national-level conference per year, and regular seminars throughout the academic year to which distinguished Canadians are invited to contribute their knowledge on a broad range of Canadian issues. It offers several graduate-level fellowships, offers interdisciplinary and experimental courses in Canadian Studies and offers the Eakin Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Studies as well as the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Policy. It welcomes visiting Canadian and international scholars and makes available to them the rich resources in the Montreal region for the study and understanding of Canada.

McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law
Director: M.A. Somerville
3690 Peel Street, Room 201
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W9
Tel.: 514-398-7400
Fax: 514-398-4668
Email

The McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law undertakes a broad range of transdisciplinary activities in the field of applied ethics. Its work comprises three interrelated functions: research; teaching and teaching development; and involvement in the community. Areas in which it has worked or is working with other academics, students, governmental, non-governmental and international agencies include: the ethical, legal, social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS; genetics, reproductive technologies, ethics and law; genomics, ethics, law and environment; climate change, health, ethics and law; mind, brain, society and ethics; health care, human rights and ethics in zones of armed conflict; and bioethics for a small planet.

McGill Metals Processing Centre
Director: R.I.L. Guthrie
M.H. Wong Building, Room 2M040
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7
Tel.: 514-398-5556
Fax: 514-398-4168
Email
Web site: Website

The McGill Metals Processing Centre (MMPC) is dedicated to providing a more structured and efficient mechanism to meet the needs of the metals processing industry, while at the same time producing graduate students who are able to excel in a fiercely competitive business world. Established as a Centre of expertise, equipment and knowledge in steel and non-ferrous metals processing operations, the MMPC is supported by an international group of 26 companies.

The Centre's research program includes a wide range of studies on the quantitative description and mathematical modeling of complex liquid and solid metal processing operations associated with liquid and solid metals processing operations. Towards this, a full-scale water modeling laboratory allows one to model flow systems as high as 250 l/min for slab casters, as well as bloom and billet casting operations. A pilot scale Hazelett horizontal belt caster plus completely re-equipped foundry melting induction furnace facilities, and metal quality sensor equipment (LiMCA), allow for the melting, processing and near-net shape casting of thin strips of steel and non-ferrous metals. A multi-mode reactor for environmental studies for the treatment of metallurgical waste oxides plus specialized equipment for the application of heat pipe technology to metallurgical operations are also featured.

A major part of the MMPC's research program is focused on generic research projects of long-term strategic interest to its researchers and International Advisory Board. It also conducts short-term projects specifically sponsored by individual member companies. The MMPC has established international relationships with other research centres and researchers in Norway, Germany, Japan, China and Australia.

McGill Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology
Director: Wieslaw Woszczyk
Schulich School of Music, 555 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec

Tel.: 514-398-4535 ext. 00328
Fax: 514-398-1540
Web site: www.music.mcgill.ca/mmt/cirmmt/

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology is a network of 12 world-class Quebec researchers in science, engineering, medicine and music from four institutions - McGill University, Université de Montréal, Université de Sherbrooke, and the CÉGEP de Drummondville. These scientists will integrate their impressive body of expertise in a well-defined research program under the umbrella of the Centre's facilities to be located at the Schulich School of Music at McGill. The new infrastructure, consisting of state-of-the-art laboratories and studios integrated via an electronic network and housed in a newly constructed building, is essential to the establishment of the proposed multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research program. Via this modern, fully networked building that can be electronically reconfigured to respond to any application, a new paradigm for interdisciplinary collaboration will be created.

Centre for Research in Neuroscience
Director: A.J. Aguayo
1650 Cedar Avenue
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1A4

Tel.: 514-934-8060
Fax: 514-934-8265
Web site: www.mcgill.ca/crn/

Current research in the Centre for Research in Neuroscience is concerned with a variety of neuroscientific areas. Major current areas of investigation include: regeneration in the mammalian central nervous system with emphasis on the molecular aspects of cell death, cell survival, axonal regrowth and failure of regrowth after injury; the molecular basis of synapse formation; the molecular basis of ion channel activity; the regulation and function of activity patterns in mammalian neuroendocrine cells; and the molecular genetics of a variety of human neurodegenerative diseases. The Centre houses a transgenic mouse facility that has become a major resource for Canadian neuroscience.

Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine
Director: M.C. Mackey
3655 Promenade Sir William Osler
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6

Tel.: 514-398-4336
Fax: 514-398-7452
Email: mackey@cnd.mcgill.ca
Web site: www.cnd.mcgill.ca

The objectives of the Centre are: to foster research directed at understanding the origin of dynamic behaviour in health and disease, e.g., cyclical hematopoiesis, neurological tremor, and cardiac arrhythmias; to establish collaborative research projects with applied mathematicians who are able to extend available mathematical techniques to the new types of mathematical models required to describe the dynamics of biological systems; to provide an environment to nurture interdisciplinary training of graduate students in fields as diverse as physiology, physics and mathematics; to continue to coordinate the interdisciplinary education of undergraduate students through administration of the major program in physics and physiology, counselling biology and mathematics students, and teaching courses open to these and other students; and to demonstrate the utility of concepts from nonlinear dynamics and other branches of mathematics to non-mathematically trained experimenters and clinicians in the biological and medical sciences through seminars, national and international meetings, and the development of professional societies.

Nutrition and Food Science Centre
Director: E.B. Marliss
687 Pine Avenue West
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A1
Tel.: 514-843-1665
Fax: 514-843-1706
Email: errol.marliss@muhc.mcgill.ca

The Centre coordinates the activities of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the Faculty of Medicine, and McGill's teaching hospitals. It promotes the development of basic and clinical nutrition and food science research; provides postgraduate training for nutritionists; teaches nutrition to undergraduate students and postgraduate trainees in medicine; develops nutrition consulting services within the teaching hospitals; and disseminates information to nutrition and food science professionals.

McGill Centre for Research on Pain
Director: Catherine Bushnell
Room M/51, Strathcona Anatomy & Dentistry Building
3640 University Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B2
Tel.: 514-398-7203
Fax: 514-398-7464
Email: Anna Vitale
Web site: www.painresearch.mcgill.ca

Pain research at McGill University is carried out by the McGill Centre for Research on Pain, which comprises researchers from the Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Science. The main goal of the Centre is to bring together the McGill community of basic and clinical pain researchers to promote research that will result in cures for chronic pain. Through its own activities and international collaborations, the Centre focuses on new discoveries and their clinical applications that will improve the prevention and treatment of chronic pain.

Centre for the Physics of Materials
Director: Martin Grant
3600 University Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8

Tel.: 514-398-6525
Fax: 514-398-6526
Email: grant@physics.mcgill.ca
Web site: www.physics.mcgill.ca/cpm/

The mission of the Centre ranges from the production and characterization of non-conventional materials to the fundamental physics of these materials. Research at the CPM has therefore both technological and basic scientific aspects, and involves both experimental and theoretical investigation. The Centre includes members from the Physics and Chemistry departments of McGill, PAPRICAN, the Research Institute of Hydro-Québec (IREQ) at Varennes and the National Research Council - Industrial Materials Institute (NRC-IMI) at Boucherville.

McGill Polymer
Director: Mark P. Andrews
801 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec

Tel.: 514-398-4459
Fax: 514-398-3797
Email: andrews@chemistry.mcgill.ca

McGill Polymer is a joint project of the departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. A broad range of important aspects of polymers and plastics technology are covered. Efforts within the Chemical Engineering Department are focused on injection and blow molding, wire coating, thermoforming, film blowing and embossing, fibre-reinforced plastics composites, rheology and thermal properties of plastics and composites, computer simulation and the application of CAD/CAN/CAE to plastics processing, microcomputer control of plastics manufacturing, and liquid crystals. Within the Chemistry Department, interests range from synthesis of new high-performance polymers, as well as biopolymers for medical and industrial applications, polymers for the microelectronics industry, and ionomers. In addition, extensive studies are in progress involving characterization and physical properties of polymers, including blends/alloys, block and graft copolymers, ionomers, high-strength fibres, membranes, cellulose liquid crystals, colloids and surface phenomena.

Pulp and Paper Research Centre
Director: T.G.M. van de Ven
3420 University Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7

Tel.: 514-398-6177
Fax: 514-398-6256
Email: vandeven@shared1.lan.mcgill.ca
Web site: www.mcgill.ca/pprc/

A university-industry collaboration focused on postgraduate research and education, including a non-thesis Master's level program in pulp and paper engineering and chemistry. The collaborating centre is the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (PAPRICAN), a partnership of university (McGill and UBC), industry and government (federal). Principal fields of research, in cooperation with appropriate academic departments, encompass organic, physical and polymer chemistry, chemical engineering and biotechnology. Thesis topics are generally related to the interests of the Canadian pulp and paper industry.

Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries
Director: Prof. Ram Jakhu
3661 Peel Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1X1

Tel.: 514-398-3659
Fax: 514-398-8197
Email: jakhu@falaw.lan.mcgill.ca
Web site: www.law.mcgill.ca/institutes/csri/

The Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries was founded in September 1977 and became affiliated with the Faculty of Law in 1988. The Centre brings together academics from Law, Management, Political Science, Economics and the Graduate Program in Communications and Engineering. Its principal foci are the telecommunication and air transport sectors. It conducts research and provides consultation in regulatory policy matters attendant to these industries. In addition, the CSRI organizes seminars, colloquia and videoconferences on issues such as privatization, competition, deregulation, globalization and harmonization of competition law and policy, as well as interdisciplinary workshop series on these topics. The Centre, as an institution of international reputation, seeks to foster transnational and interdisciplinary approaches to research.

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. Gerbern S. Oegema
Director
Faculty of Religious Studies

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

McGill Reproductive Centre
Director: S.L. Tan
Women's Pavilion, Royal Victoria Hospital
687 avenue des Pins
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A1

Tel.: 514-842-1231 ext. 4735
Fax: 514-843-1662
Email: info@mcgillivf.com
Web site: www.mcgillivf.com

Reproduction is a truly multidisciplinary field encompassing clinical medicine, developmental biology, endocrinology, genetics and animal breeding technology. The mission of the Centre for Reproduction is to encourage collaborative links between all specialists in the University and the MUHC who are engaged in research at any stage of reproduction between gametes and menopause. Originally, reproduction was mainly focussed on hormone production and action, but the advent of assisted reproductive technology (IVF), cloning and gene technology have transformed it into one of the most dynamic and progressive fields in biomedicine. McGill has been a premier centre for many years, and its staff enjoy collaborating with fellow scientists and clinicians in neighbouring institutions. To maintain world class status, there has to be continuous investment, and the development of Centres for Genomics and Proteomics provides key opportunities for innovation and leadership in infertility research, reproductive toxicology and aging, new contraceptive strategies and prenatal screening. The Centre will not only serve to encourage researchers and students in Obstetrics & Gynecology, but also in Anatomy & Cell Biology, Animal Science, Human Genetics, Medicine, Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Physiology. Communication is informal as well as through organized seminars, newsletters and interdepartmental projects. The Centre is broad, open and welcoming, and a stimulating environment for biomedical discovery and research training.

Centre for Self Assembled Chemical Structures
Director: Linda Reven
801 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec H3A-2K6 Canada

Tel:514-398-8058
Fax:514-398-3797
Email
Website

Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures promotes innovative research in a non-traditional field of chemistry. 'Self-assembly' encompasses phenomena whereby small chemical units are introduced into an environment, reach an equilibrium state, and produce larger-scale structures. Common examples of self-assembled chemical structures include liquid crystals, self-assembled monolayers, organization of lipids into micelles and membrane vesicles, block copolymer microphase separation, and polymers adsorbed onto surfaces in layers and multilayers. CSACS membership includes synthetic chemists, polymer scientists, biophysical chemists, spectroscopists, and surface scientists.

McGill Centre for Society, Technology and Development
Director: John G. Galaty
Administrative Assistants: Jon Salsberg, Biatriz Oliver
STANDD, McGill University
New Chancellor Day Hall
3644 Peel Street, Suite 322
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W9

Tel.: 514-398-1807
Fax: 514-398-4619
Email: standd@po-box.mcgill.ca
Web site: www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/anthro/research/standd.htm

The Centre for Society, Technology and Development is an interdisciplinary research unit at McGill University, encouraging collaborative research on the social and environmental factors affecting conditions of poverty, primarily in the developing world. PASE, the Pastoral and Agrarian Systems Équipe, and AGREE, Aboriginal Government, Resources, Economy and Environment, are research groups affiliated with STANDD.

Centre for Strategy Studies in Organizations
Director: Robert J. David, Ph.D.
1001 Sherbrooke Street West, Room 544
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1G5

Tel.: 514-398-7463
Fax: 514-398-3876
Email: robert.david@mcgill.ca
Website

The Centre supports research on strategy and organization. Its goal is to promote the execution and dissemination of the best possible research on issues central to organizations, especially the formation of strategic direction, the coordination of organizational activities, and the relationship between organizations and society. CSSO members employ diverse approaches to strategy and strategic change, including longitudinal/qualitative as well as advanced quantitative methods.

McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer
Director: Dr Gerald Batist
3755 Cote Ste. Catherine Road, Suite D-127
Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2

Tel.: 514-340-7915
Fax: 514-340-7916
Email: afragome@ldi.jgh.mcgill.ca
Web site: www.mctrc.org

Translation of the exciting novel findings made in fundamental laboratories into testable hypotheses for evaluation in clinical trials is the aim of translational research in oncology. The McGill University Centre for Translational Research in Cancer provides the infrastructure to bring the investigators involved in "translational research" together to generate novel cancer treatment approaches. It adds a key element to the coordination of cancer researchers by providing a structured focus for these activities, and accelerates the testing of potential benefits derived from scientific discovery to the patients. The McGill University Centre for Translational Research, widely recognized throughout the North American cancer research community, is based at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital. Its scientific members extend beyond McGill to include researchers at the Université de Montréal, Institut Armand Frappier and Université du Québec. The Centre provides core functions; the Clinical Research Unit, with a dedicated staff of nurses and clinical research associates, has an established track record in novel cancer therapeutics, including pharmacokinetics/dynamics. The Centre also includes a Tissue Tumor Bank, a Molecular Modeling Unit and a Cell Preparation Lab.

Centre for Tropical Diseases
Director: J.D. MacLean
1650 Cedar Avenue, Room D7-153
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1A4

Tel.: 514-934-8049
Fax: 514-933-9385
Email: md10@musica.mcgill.ca
Web site: www.medicine.mcgill.ca/tropmed/

The Centre has clinical, research and teaching responsibilities in the field of tropical medicine, clinical parasitology and international health. Current research in the areas of malaria, helminthology, intestinal protozoology, laboratory quality assurance and vaccine development will be continued and expanded.

International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviours
Director: Dr Jeff Derevensky
Faculty of Education, McGill University
3724 McTavish Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1Y2

Tel.: 514-398-1391
Fax: 514-398-3401
Email: info@youthgambling.org
Web site: www.youthgambling.org

The Centre's primary focus of research concerns the advancement of the current state of knowledge concerning youth gambling and risk-taking behaviours through the development of both basic and applied research. The Centre provides a focal point for an enhanced collaboration between researchers whose area of expertise lies in the psychological, psychiatric, biological, neurological, sociological, legal, social policy and socio-economic domains. As well, the Centre provides for the training of researchers, treatment providers and educators. The Centre's faculty offer workshops and are involved in hosting meetings and international conferences. The Centre also serves as a depository and clearinghouse of current research projects worldwide concerning youth gambling problems.