Today, The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced 102 new Fellows and 54 new Members of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Among the 2022 cohort are fifteen McGill researchers and scholars, including eleven RSC Fellows and four new Members, who will be inducted at the RSC Celebration of Excellence and Engagement on November 25, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. The newest McGill cohort will join 238 McGill researchers who are currently RSC Fellows and Members of the College and 2400 Canada-wide.
Published on: 6 Sep 2022
Professor Niky Kamran has been appointed Deputy Research Integrity Officer at McGill for a three-year term. As Deputy RIO, Professor Kamran promotes integrity in the conduct of research and carries out the assessment of research misconduct allegations.
Category:
Published on: 2 Sep 2022
Professor Jeanne Paquette has been appointed as a McGill Deputy Research Integrity Officer. She began the three-year, part-time appointment on June 15, 2022. As Deputy RIO, Professor Paquette promotes integrity in the conduct of research and carries out the assessment of research misconduct allegations. She works closely with the Research Integrity Officer (RIO), Professor Christina Wolfson, to foster an environment that promotes the ethical and responsible conduct of research.
Category:
Published on: 11 Jul 2022
Tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity a key priority for McGill and Quebec
The Fonds de recherche du Québec announced its latest rounds of funding earlier this month in support of research, training, and initiatives to tackle major societal challenges—including climate change and biodiversity loss.
Category:
Published on: 30 Jun 2022
On May 19 and 20, Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives (HBHL) welcomed over 150 attendees to the first HBHL Symposium since 2019. Held at the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre at the Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital), the HBHL Symposium 2022 featured two days of talks and networking opportunities.
Category:
Published on: 6 Jun 2022
On June 23, Scholars Portal Dataverse is becoming Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository / le dépôt Dataverse canadien. All links to the current Scholars Portal Dataverse site will be redirected to the new site - borealisdata.ca.
Published on: 1 Jun 2022
McGill professors receive grant to explore the correlation between technology dependence, youth loneliness and the risk for exploitation.
Category:
Published on: 19 May 2022
Earlier this year, the Government of Canada and its partners announced that they will invest $31.1 million over six years to support the training and development of students and early career researchers. The Health Research Training Platform (HRTP) will form 17 collaborative health research teams of participants across Canada with the goal of increasing their career prospects and building on Canadian research capacity at large.
Category:
Published on: 28 Apr 2022
Montreal-based centre unites strengths of McGill University, ÉTS, Mila, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, and CentraleSupélec
Published on: 26 Apr 2022
An HBHL-funded lab at the Douglas Research Centre, led by Martin Lepage, Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University and Deputy Scientific Director at the Douglas, has recently published a study in JAMA Psychiatry to determine the effectiveness of metacognitive training for psychosis (MCT) in treating individuals living with schizophrenia.
Category:
Published on: 25 Mar 2022
A team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and the Department of Biomedical Engineering of McGill University, the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute have shown how drug-induced changes in subjective awareness are linked to specific neurotransmitter receptor systems in the largest study of its kind on psychedelics and the brain, funded by HBHL.
Category:
Published on: 25 Mar 2022
McGill University has joined Moderna’s mRNA Access program, which aims to accelerate innovation and enable new vaccines and medicines for emerging and neglected infectious diseases through collaborative research and preclinical development. McGill is the first university in Canada to join this program as it ramps up its international rollout.
Category:
Published on: 24 Mar 2022
On March 22, Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, was presented with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The award was handed over by Germany’s Ambassador to Canada, Ms. Sabine Sparwasser, at a special ceremony at McGill University. The Order of Merit is awarded to Germans as well as foreigners for outstanding achievements in the political, economic, social, or intellectual realms.
Category:
Published on: 22 Mar 2022
Eight projects funded through the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) and the Government of Quebec acquire new tools and infrastructure to generate new knowledge, from improving breast cancer treatments to understanding the lives of parasitoid insects.
Category:
Published on: 22 Feb 2022
NeuroSphere is pleased to continue to support Neurasic Therapeutics and Dr. Philippe Séguéla since our involvement in the launch of Neurasic therapeutics in 2020 and announce a new $965,000 collaboration between Neurasic Therapeutics, CQDM, the Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation, and Neurosphere.
Category:
Published on: 13 Jan 2022
Pages
