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McGill researchers awarded $5.5 million in CFI funding

webfull — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:55:28 +0000

Twenty McGill researchers have received infrastructure awards from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to support their innovative projects, for a total federal investment of $5.5 million.

These grants will be matched by the Quebec government, doubling their value.

Published: 18 September 2024

NSERC awards Discovery Grants funding to eight McGill Agricultural and Environmental Sciences projects

webfull — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:10:20 +0000

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded 101 McGill research projects funding from its Discovery Grants competition for a total investment of $23.5 million, including $639,500 for eight projects submitted by researchers in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

The Discovery Grants support ongoing programs with long-term goals, recognizing the creativity and innovation that are at the heart of all research advances.

Published: 30 July 2024

MI4 announces new Early Career Investigator Awards

webfull — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 19:25:27 +0000

With this donation from Pfizer Canada, early career scientists and researchers across the McGill and MUHC community have an opportunity to carry out research across three broad thematic areas: Pandemic Threats, Antimicrobial Resistance, Microbes that Shape Human Health.

Published: 27 September 2023

New and renewed government funding for research in McGill's Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

webfull — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:42:02 +0000

Today, the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages, on behalf of the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry, and the Honourable Mark Holland, Minister of Health, announced an investment of more than $960 million in support of research and innovation through a suite of programs. These programs include the John R.

Published: 30 August 2023

Newly discovered chemical is a highly targeted killer of parasitic worms

webfull — Fri, 26 May 2023 18:32:36 +0000

The most abundant animals on farms—and everywhere on land, in fact—are microscopic worms called nematodes. Some kinds benefit the soil, but others parasitize crops, inflicting more than $100 billion in losses worldwide each year. Although pesticides can get rid of harmful nematodes, they inflict collateral damage on other life.

Published: 26 May 2023

Bennett and Xia among Highly Cited Researchers

webfull — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 20:07:43 +0000

On November 15, Clarivate Analytics, a company specializing in citation data, published the Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list. Many citations mean a paper has had great influence among scientific peers. A group of 16 McGill researchers made the cut, recognized as some of the most frequently cited scientists and social scientists in the world over the last decade. The 2022 list captures the period from 2011 to 2021.

Read the article in the McGill Reporter.

Published: 28 November 2022

Liu named MI4 Pfizer Early Career Investigator Award Winner

webfull — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:59:31 +0000

Qian Liu, PhD, an Assistant Professor at �㽶��Ƶ’s Institute of Parasitology, received the award for her project, Single-molecule interactions between Nipah virus and the interferon-induced transmembrane proteins.

Published: 29 September 2022

Cestari: research offers hope in treating more than COVID-19

webfull — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 17:03:55 +0000

Until two years ago, m�㽶��Ƶ vaccines had never been approved. Now, Faster to produce than conventional vaccines, the potential applications of synthetic m�㽶��Ƶ to prevent illness and treat diseases seem nearly limitless.

Published: 6 June 2022

Robin Beech named McGill's new Dean of Students

webfull — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:06:32 +0000

Congratulations to Professor Robin Beech (Parasitology) who will become McGill’s Dean of Students on November 1.

Robin joined the Institute of Parasitology in 1992 and has served as the Associate Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies since 2015. In addition to his extensive experience in student advising, supervision, discipline and policy, he is skilled in conflict resolution, mediation and creative problem solving.

Published: 9 October 2020

Professor Salavati appointed the next Director of the Institute of Parasitology

webfull — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:59:50 +0000

Professor Reza Salavati has been appointed Director of the Institute of Parasitology for a 5-year term starting July 1, 2020. Professor Salavati is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Parasitology and an Associate Member of the Department of Biochemistry at �㽶��Ƶ. His research programs focus on the biology of the protozoan parasites of global importance and drug discovery. He has developed computational and experimental methods to determine the functions of the poorly annotated parasite genomes to target unique pathways for drug discovery.

Published: 29 June 2020