Prof. Sirui Zhou receives 2025 Banting Discovery Award for groundbreaking EDS research
Congratulations to Prof. Sirui Zhou, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, who has been awarded the 2025 Banting Discovery Foundation’s prestigious Discovery Award. Prof. Zhou is the inaugural recipient of the $30,000 Banting-Canerector Foundation Discovery Award, which was created to support pioneering research into Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders (HSD)—conditions that affect the body's connective tissues.
Congratulations to Prof. Yasser Riazalhosseini and his colleagues on receiving the US Department of Defense grant
Yasser Riazalhosseini, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, and Head of Cancer Genomics at the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine and clinicians from McGill University Health Centre have received funding from the US Department of Defense (DoD) for nearly $2M to discover improved methods for risk assessment and therapeutic treatment to fight against clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC)
Congratulations to Dr. Raquel Cuella Martin on receiving the Gairdner Early Career Investigator Award
Raquel Cuella Martin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, has been honored with the Gairdner Foundation's prestigious Early Career Investigator Award. She is one of only five researchers selected for this recognition. Dr. Cuella Martin will showcase her research in precision genome engineering at the 2024 Gairdner Science Week, taking place in Toronto from October 23 to 25, alongside the esteemed 2024 Gairdner Awardees.
Congratulations to Mark Sorin for receiving the FRQS' Jacques-Genest Rising Star Award
MD-PhD Human Genetics student, Mark Sorin has received the FRQS' Jacques-Genest Rising Star Award for his contributions towards paper published in Nature titled 'Single-cell spatial landscapes of the lung tumour immune microenvironment'.
Dr. William Foulkes's appointment as Chief, Division of Medical Genetics, JGH Department of Medicine, effective January 1, 2024.
The following announcement is being sent on behalf of Dr. Vicky Tagalakis, Physician-in-Chief:
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McGill’s Department of Human Genetics – past, present and future
Established in 1993, McGill University’s world-renowned Department of Human Genetics is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Join us for a walk down memory lane with past and present Chairs David Rosenblatt, Eric Shoubridge and William Foulkes.
Discovery made in a McGill-UMontréal research collaboration named among top 10 of the year by Québec Science
A groundbreaking discovery made by researchers at the Université de Montréal and McGill has just been named one of the top 10 of the year by Québec Science magazine.
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Atia Amin recognized by School of Biomedical Sciences for outstanding achievement
Atia Amin, a PhD candidate in the Langlais Lab at the Department of Human Genetics and trainee at the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine, is a budding changemaker and an engine that seemingly doesn’t stop running.
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