Future Ready: The Translation Trailblazer

20 Jan 2020

As a boy in Jaffa, Israel, Nahum Sonenberg walked regularly with his father to the Old Protestant cemetery on a hill overlooking the harbour. His father showed him the gravestone of Thomas Hodgkin,...

XPRIZE luminaries converge at McGill for Brain Trust event

14 Apr 2026

Against the backdrop of typically fragile Canadian spring weather, the world-renowned XPRIZE held a brain trust meeting at McGill University, with a group of over 80 delegates arriving in Montreal...

The long road from PhD to CEO

19 Mar 2026

The ubiquity and scale of startups is impossible to ignore these days. From humble beginnings, companies like Airbnb or Uber have become household names, and very quickly. Apple and Amazon also...

McGill cleantech spinoff FeX Energy secures major funding

16 Sep 2025

McGill spinoff company FeX Energy has recently received USD ($3.5M) to finance their pursuit of renewable, long-term energy storage. FeX is developing iron-based long-duration energy storage,...

Searching for the next Google: launch of McGill Innovation Fund to make history

Published: 28 September 2021

Fund will be one of Canada’s most significant university innovation programs awarding nearly $500k to spinoffs and technologies...

Roman Szumski appointed as Special Advisor to the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation

Published: 11 January 2022

Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation (VP-RI), is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Roman Szumski to the role of Special Advisor to the VP-RI in Public and Life Science...

$110M for Nine Innovative McGill Research Projects

Published: 9 March 2021

Read the story in the McGill Reporter Read the McGill news release Funded Projects:   SecureData4Health McGill team lead: Guillaume Bourque, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Dr. Ronald Lafrenière appointed Managing Director of McGill’s CFREF Program, Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives

Published: 20 February 2017

In September 2016, the federal government made an unparalleled investment in research and innovation, announcing $84 million in funding over seven years for McGill’s Healthy Brains for Healthy...

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