New direction for treatment of aggressive type of breast cancer
Researchers identify path to improve HER2+ breast cancer susceptibility to approved therapies
Researchers identify improved avenues to train plastic surgeons in microsurgery
Adoption of methods that could reduce costs and spare animal models
Quebec’s First Online Bachelor of Nursing Program to be Launched at ۲ݮƵ Thanks to the Doggone Foundation
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.
Study shows the biological clock influences immune response efficiency
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.
A Canadian First: Research Project will study blows to the head in University Football
۲ݮƵ University is participating in a new research project titledTête première(head first), led by the team of neuropsychologistDr. 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.
Four Burning Questions with Anthony Bossis, PhD
A clinical psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine, Anthony Bossis, PhD will be at ۲ݮƵ University in Montreal onSeptember 12, 2019to deliver a talk titled“Psychedelic Research: Implications for Palliative Care and End-of-Life Existential Distress.”
How Salmonella tackles cellular defense mechanisms
Researchers uncover new protein that plays key role in bacterial infections
Early life factors connected to suicide risk later in life
Researchers have long been interested in the question of whether a correlation exists between one’s 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.
A new study shows that the hippocampus retains traces of negative and stressful experiences which are linked to depressive behaviours
Depression can be associated with behaviours such as social avoidance, that is, the refusal to interact with others for fear of being judged or criticized. Physicians and other mental health workers have noted that patients with depressive disorders exhibit cognitive symptoms, especially with regard to memory.
Dr. Joseph Hill named 2019 recipient of the Louis and Artur Lucian Award
The recipient of the 2019 Louis andArtur Lucian Award is Dr. Joseph Hill from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The award, established through a bequest to ۲ݮƵ University by the late Olga Leibovici to honour her two brothers, was designed to honour outstanding research in the field of circulatory diseases by a scientific investigator or group of investigators whose contribution to knowledge in this field is deemed worthy of special recognition.
Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas Taylor announces investment of $150M to create “Team Canada of Cancer Research”
MONCTON, NB – The federal Minister of Health, Ginette Petitpas Taylor, announced today an investment of $150 million over five years by the Government of Canada for the creation of the Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres network.
Research team receives $6M to find new ways to treat metastatic breast cancer
Source: Terry Fox Research Institute
What is the best way to starve cancer cells? What role does obesity play in metastatic breast cancer and how does it affect the tumour microenvironment? Might combining a chemotherapeutic agent with a drug now used to treat diabetes be part of an effective therapy for metastatic breast cancer?
Researchers unlock mysteries of complex microRNA oncogenes
New research led by ۲ݮƵ’s Goodman Cancer Research Centre improves our understanding of microRNAs
۲ݮƵ researchers reveal how protein mutation is involved in rare brain development disorder
Discovery could provide clues to potential therapies
Rearing its head in infancy, Christianson Syndrome is a rare disorder whose symptoms include intellectual disability, seizures and difficulty standing or walking. Although it is becoming increasingly diagnosed, with little being known about the neural mechanism behind the disease, therapeutic options for patients remain limited.
A Quebec first: Research chair in women’s heart health
Heart & Stroke and ۲ݮƵ University to create Early-Career Professorship in Women’s Heart Health