Daniel Almeida, a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Gustavo Turecki in 鲍鱼直播鈥檚 Integrated Program in Neuroscience and at the Douglas Research Centre, was included in Forbes Magazine鈥檚 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.
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Published on: 6 Dec 2019
Kudos to听the Prager-Khoutorsky lab听for publishing听their first paper, Effects of Salt Loading on the Organization of Microtubules in Rat Magnocellular Vasopressin Neurons,听in 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!
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Published on: 5 Dec 2019
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).
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Published on: 22 Nov 2019
Insight into way enzymes work could shape future therapeutic production
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Researchers at 鲍鱼直播鈥檚 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.
Published on: 8 Nov 2019
Researchers identify path to improve HER2+ breast cancer susceptibility to approved therapies
Published on: 1 Nov 2019
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.
Published on: 25 Oct 2019
It鈥檚 a proven way to improve patient safety and outcomes, and meet the evolving health needs of the aging Quebec population. It鈥檚 a way to make higher education in nursing available to all communities in the province. It鈥檚 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鈥檚 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.
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Published on: 24 Oct 2019
Montreal, September 23, 2019 鈥� 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, of听the Douglas Research Centre, and Nathalie Labrecque, PhD, of the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre.
Published on: 23 Sep 2019
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.
Published on: 23 Sep 2019
On September 13, 2019, Campus Public Safety听recognized Dr. Alvin Shrier with the 2019 Safety Ambassador Award for his work as Chair of the听University Laboratory Safety Committee.听To see听the 鲍鱼直播 Reporter article, .
Published on: 18 Sep 2019
鲍鱼直播 is participating in a new research project titled听T锚te premi猫re听(head first), led by the team of neuropsychologist听Dr. Louis De Beaumont, a researcher at the CIUSSS du Nord-de-l鈥櫭巐e-de-Montr茅al research centre and a professor in the Department of Surgery at Universit茅 de Montr茅al. The project will assess the brain鈥檚 capacities to sustain blows to the head during a full university football season.
Published on: 11 Sep 2019
A clinical psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine, Anthony Bossis, PhD will be at 鲍鱼直播 in Montreal on听September 12, 2019听to deliver a talk titled听鈥淧sychedelic Research: Implications for Palliative Care and End-of-Life Existential Distress.鈥澨�
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Published on: 9 Sep 2019
Researchers uncover new protein that plays key role in bacterial infections
Bacterial infections represent a major public health concern, accounting for over 300 million foodborne illnesses and 60% of related fatalities globally.听Salmonella听alone is responsible for approximately 93.8 million illnesses and 155,000 deaths annually. Combined with the emergence of antibiotic-resistant听Salmonella听strains, it is critical that researchers improve our understanding of the molecular details governing bacterial infections.
Published on: 9 Sep 2019
Researchers have long been interested in the question of whether a correlation exists between one鈥檚 early-life environment and suicide rates, with studies on the topic dating back to the 1980s. However, these studies have focused on individual countries or on only one or few risk factors. As a result, the lack of any meta-analysis of the data has made it difficult to draw any coherent conclusions.
Published on: 9 Sep 2019
The move to single-patient rooms at the 鲍鱼直播 Health Centre鈥檚 (MUHC) Glen site in 2015 resulted in significantly reduced rates of hospital-acquired infections, suggests a study published today in the highly respected journal published by the American Medical Association.
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Published on: 20 Aug 2019
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