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Countries worldwide face challenges meeting the growing needs for long-term care services because of high costs. A led by researchers from ۲ݮƵ University and Université du Québec en Outaouais shows that introducing nurse practitioners can significantly reduce costs and improve patient safety.
A group of proteins called 4E-BPs, involved in memory formation, is the key to unlocking the antidepressant effect of ketamine in the brain, according to researchers from three Canadian universities. The could lead to better and safer treatments for certain patients suffering from major depression.
Finding could lead to potential therapies
MONTREAL, QUEBEC – Pfizer Canada has made a $600,000 gift to the ۲ݮƵ Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (MI4) via ۲ݮƵ University and the ۲ݮƵ University Health Centre (MUHC) Foundation. The gift, which was announced today during the 2ndannual MI4 Scientific Symposium, will support innovation and life-۲ݮƵ research through the creation of thePfizerEarly Career Investigator Awards.
By Meaghan Thurston (Office of Research and Innovation)
By Shawn Hayward
Six ۲ݮƵ University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences researchers — Boris Bernhardt, Mark Brandon, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Jean-Francois Poulin, Jo Anne Stratton and Masha Prager-Khoutorsky — have received grants to support their work in the early-career stage, after being chosen from 150 talented applicants.
Brain Canada’s Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Program, anchored by a $5M gift from the Azrieli Foundation, enables paradigm-۲ݮƵ research of the brain to improve the lives of all Canadians.
Five projects led by ۲ݮƵ University researchers are included among the 79 receiving a total of $28 million in research infrastructure support through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Exceptional Opportunities Fund. The announcement was made today by the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry during a news conference this morning.
Earlier today, a Quebec based consortium of research institutes (Génome Québec, Oncopole and IVADO) announced the winners of their first-ever “Omics Data Against Cancer” competition, and ۲ݮƵ research teams were dominant. In fact, of the five selected teams no less than four of them included professors from ۲ݮƵ.
Earlier today, the Quebec government announced the winners of its annual Prix du Quebec competition, a series of 15 awards in science and culture. Among them was Professor William Foulkes, Head of the Cancer Genetics Laboratory at the Lady Davis Institute, a member of the Cancer Research Program of the Research Institute of the ۲ݮƵ University Health Centre, and Director of the Program in Cancer Genetics at ۲ݮƵ University. Dr.
Changing makeup of a specific protein has the potential to neutralize the virus
Researchers from ۲ݮƵ University are part of an international team led by the University of Buffalo, which has discovered a technique that could help increase the effectiveness of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The group’s study was published recently online in the journal .
Using a new technique, a team of ۲ݮƵ University researchers has found tiny and previously undetectable ‘hot spots’ of extremely high stiffness inside aggressive and invasive breast cancer tumours. Their findings suggest, for the first time, that only very tiny regions of a tumor need to stiffen for metastasis to take place. Though still in its infancy, the researchers believe that their technique may prove useful in detecting and mapping the progression of aggressive cancers.
COVID-19 Resources Canada, a grassroots organization co-founded by a ۲ݮƵ researcher, today announced it received a donation of $250,000 from the to facilitate Canada’s response to the pandemic. Since its launch in March 2020, the organization has developed two of the most comprehensive databases in Canada with more than 600 COVID-19 funded research projects and experts from over 25 Canadian institutions.
As countries struggle to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination uptake is a public health priority now more than ever. Efforts to increase vaccinations vary greatly around the globe. A new ۲ݮƵ-led study comparing policies around the world finds broad implementation of mandatory vaccination mandates. However, the penalties for failing to vaccinate differ significantly by country, ranging from fines to jail time.
A ۲ݮƵ-led multi-institutional research team has discovered that during memory consolidation, there are at least two distinct processes taking place in two different brain networks – the excitatory and inhibitory networks. The excitatory neurons are involved in creating a memory trace, and the inhibitory neurons block out background noise and allow long-term learning to take place.