A Centre of Excellence for Tropical and Geographic Medicine
The JD MacLean Centre for Tropical and Geographic Medicine is a premier centre of expertise, research, and training in the broad fields of Tropical and Geographically-restricted Infectious Diseases, and health problems of populations in remote and low-resource settings. This focus encompasses infectious pathologies imported among travellers and migrants, those arising in endemic settings abroad and in Canada, and those linked to exposure to ecosytems, animals, or vectors.
Our team in the news
Dr. Makeda Semret was recently profiled by The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Learn more about Dr. Semret's journey in connecting two worlds in antimicrobial resistance.
New ultra-rapid phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility device
Members of the Centre based at McGill and RI-MUHC in the groups of Sara Mashid, Dao Nguyen, and Cedric Yansouni have devised a technology capable of ultra-rapid phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing directly from urine specimens, recently published in Nature Nanotechnology. This addresses a key unmet need for complicated urinary tract infections (cUTI), and could allow the simultaneous diagnosis of urine infections and the determination of which antibiotics are effective in around 30 minutes instead of 2-3 days which are currently required. This groundbreaking work was made possible by operating funding from CIHR, MI4, the McGill AMR Centre, the McGill Innovation Fund (MIF).
STAR-NT Stopping Syphilis in Arctic Communities Through Rapid Diagnostic Testing in Non-Traditional Sites
Lead by researchers at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University, STAR-NT is a community-centered research project focused on eliminating barriers to being tested for syphilis in Nunavik. The aim is to improve access to timely and accurate syphilis testing, which is essential to controlling the spread of syphilis. Read more about the STAR-NT study.
