Asian Heritage Month: Impact in healthcare News Archive
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Faculty of Graduate Studies
3MT winner is full of heart
April 3, 2023 —
PhD student in Max Rady College of Medicine wins first place for presentation on personalized heart cells
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
UM scientist makes Arthritis Society Canada’s Top 10 Research Advances list again
March 2, 2023 —
A Rady Faculty of Health Sciences researcher might have found a way to predict how a person with early rheumatoid arthritis will respond to treatments based on a sample of their joint lining tissue and the discovery has made Arthritis Society Canada’s Top 10 Research Advances of 2022.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Med student, passionate researcher wins CMHF Award
October 20, 2022 —
Max Rady College of Medicine student Emelissa Valcourt is a winner of the 2022 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Award.
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Remember Me
October 26, 2021 —
Can we reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s disease? This UM biomedical engineer and advocate—and daughter of a mother who forgot—is determined to find a way.