Dialogue McGill is proud to announce that Richard Silver will act as coordinator of Retention Program’s activities with Greater Montreal community networks.
By Monica Slanik, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy
McGill researchers’ findings show that may be the case
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Daniel Almeida, a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Gustavo Turecki in Ï㽶ÊÓƵ’s Integrated Program in Neuroscience and at the Douglas Research Centre, was included in Forbes Magazine’s Top 30 under 30 list, unveiled December 3. Overall, the ninth annual list includes 600 young entrepreneurs, risk-takers and game changers who are redefining what it means to innovate and lead by example.
Kudos toÌýthe Prager-Khoutorsky labÌýfor publishingÌýtheir first paper, Effects of Salt Loading on the Organization of Microtubules in Rat Magnocellular Vasopressin Neurons,Ìýin the Journal of Neuroendocrinology. Special congratulations to Amirah-Iman Hicks, graduate student, and Zsuzsanna Barad, post-doctoral fellow, the co-first authors of the paper. Well done!
ToÌýview the paper, .
New guideline from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
A new guideline from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care found no benefit of routine screening for thyroid dysfunction in adults without symptoms or risk factors. Based on the latest evidence, the Task Force guideline recommends against routine screening for thyroid dysfunction in non-pregnant adults and is published in (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Insight into way enzymes work could shape future therapeutic production
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Researchers at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ’s Faculty of Medicine have made important strides in understanding the functioning of enzymes that play an integral role in the production of antibiotics and other therapeutics. Their findings are published in Science.
Researchers identify path to improve HER2+ breast cancer susceptibility to approved therapies
Adoption of methods that could reduce costs and spare animal models
Microsurgery is an intricate and challenging surgical technique that involves using miniature instruments and sutures as fine as a hair strand aided by sophisticated microscopes. In plastic surgery, microsurgery is used to repair small damaged vessels and nerves following trauma, or in reconstructive procedures by moving a component of living tissue from one place of the body to another and reconnecting its vascular supply to this new region to keep its blood supply.
It’s a proven way to improve patient safety and outcomes, and meet the evolving health needs of the aging Quebec population. It’s a way to make higher education in nursing available to all communities in the province. It’s a way to increase the pool of potential candidates for graduate-level education to produce the next generation of nurse leaders, researchers and educators, as well as nurse practitioners. It’s a way to ensure more nurses have the required level of training if, and when, Quebec follows all other Canadian provinces and requires a nurse to have a university-level education.
Montreal, September 23, 2019 – According to a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the biological clock influences immune response efficacy. Indeed, CD8 T cells, which are essential to fight infections and cancers, function very differently according to the time of day. The study was carried out by a team of researchers led by Nicolas Cermakian, PhD, ofÌýthe Douglas Research Centre, and Nathalie Labrecque, PhD, of the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre.
On July 17, 2019, Mr David Graham, Member of Parliament for the riding of Laurentides-Labelle, visited the Department of Physiology and had lunch with our graduate students.
On September 13, 2019, Campus Public SafetyÌýrecognized Dr. Alvin Shrier with the 2019 Safety Ambassador Award for his work as Chair of theÌýUniversity Laboratory Safety Committee.ÌýTo seeÌýthe McGill Reporter article, .
Ï㽶ÊÓƵ is participating in a new research project titledÌýTête premièreÌý(head first), led by the team of neuropsychologistÌýDr. Louis De Beaumont, a researcher at the CIUSSS du Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal research centre and a professor in the Department of Surgery at Université de Montréal. The project will assess the brain’s capacities to sustain blows to the head during a full university football season.
A clinical psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine, Anthony Bossis, PhD will be at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in Montreal onÌýSeptember 12, 2019Ìýto deliver a talk titledÌý“Psychedelic Research: Implications for Palliative Care and End-of-Life Existential Distress.â€Ìý