Vitamin D may not be a great solution to health problems
Edmonton, AB – As Canadians prepare for long summer days in the sun, a new publication is shedding light on the suggested medical benefits of a nutrient that comes with the sun’s rays: vitamin D. The...
View Article$10M gift supports study of brain disorders
Toronto, ON – CIFAR, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, has received a $10 million gift for the study of brain disorders from the Azrieli Foundation. The organization says it is the largest...
View Article$10M funding supports new Canada excellence research chair
Quebec City, QC – The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is providing $10 million over seven years to fund the research of Vincenzo Di Marzo at the Université Laval. A globally renowned...
View ArticleNew lab to facilitate immunotherapy clinical trials
Victoria, B.C. – A lab for T-cell therapy development recently opened at the BC Cancer Agency and brings an entirely new approach to cancer treatment one step closer. Built with the support of private...
View ArticleAsthma researchers awarded international medical prize
London, ON – The 2016 recipients of the J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine have made it their mission to better understand asthma with the aim of informing practice for better therapy and...
View Article$15M funding supports cancer immunotherapy research centre
Montréal, QC – The Centre for Commercialization of Cancer Immunotherapy (C3i) has received $15 million funding over five years from the federal government. Immunotherapy is an emerging area of medicine...
View ArticleFat cells may play key role in battle against breast cancer
Toronto, ON – New research led by York University Professor Michael Connor highlights how fat cells could help determine the most effective way to fight breast cancer; including using exercise to...
View ArticleNew program supports research using biomedical imaging
Quebec, QC – The Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT) and the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS) have signed an agreement with the Ministry of Science, Technology and...
View ArticleCanadian discovery may soon lead to the prevention of cardiac fibrosis
Edmonton, AB – Groundbreaking research from the University of Alberta and McGill University has opened the door towards the future prevention of cardiac fibrosis — a condition leading to heart failure...
View Article$2M funding supports study of drug-resistant pathogens
Guelph, ON – Battling disease-causing bacteria – including potentially deadly microbes resistant to current therapies – is the ultimate goal of research by a University of Guelph microbiologist chosen...
View ArticleCollaborative study aims to identify breast cancer mutations
Toronto, ON – The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) has entered into a new collaborative research study with Thermo Fisher Scientific and Queen’s University to help bring more targeted...
View ArticleKidney podocyte researcher gets $750,000 in CIHR funding
Guelph, ON – Nina Jones, a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph and Canada research chair in eukaryotic cellular signalling, has received a...
View ArticleScientists develop inexpensive microneedle system to monitor drugs
Vancouver, BC – Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Switzerland have created a microneedle drug monitoring system that could one day replace...
View ArticleCardiovascular Genetics Centre takes step toward personalized medicine
Montreal, ON – The Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) has officially opened its new Cardiovascular Genetics Centre. “We’ve just made an important step towards personalized medicine. This is the only...
View ArticleBig data making a big impact on cancer care
Toronto, ON – There is no denying that cancer is an incredibly complex disease – it is always changing, evolving, and adapting. To understand how a cancer grows, spreads, and kills, researchers need to...
View ArticleSchizophrenia medication inhibits pancreatic cancer
Montreal, QC – A receptor for the dopamine neurotransmitter promotes growth and spread of pancreatic cancer – and schizophrenia drugs, which block the function of this receptor, slowed tumour growth...
View Article$4.5M aimed at finding new treatments for rare diseases
Halifax, NS – One in 15 babies born in Canada has what is called an orphan disease. And even though there are more than 7,000 such diseases that affect over 300 million people globally, they are...
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