medicine News Archive
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Rady researchers receive early career transition awards
April 19, 2024 —
Two Rady Faculty of Health Sciences early career researchers have recently been announced as recipients of awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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Manitoba Budget 2024 offers increase to operating funding, support for health expansion
April 3, 2024 —
The Manitoba government released its budget April 2, which includes increased operating funding of 2 per cent to UM. There are also investments that will allow UM to increase enrolment in a number of critical health care areas.
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Research and International
Brain and Gut: working together in health and disease
March 5, 2024 —
On Wednesday March 27, 2024, join the UM Knowledge Exchange for an exploration of the connection between the brain and the gut in the context of health and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Psychology Month feature: Clinical health psychology to establish first endowed professorship
February 27, 2024 —
The department of clinical health psychology is currently running a campaign to raise $1.3 million to establish its first endowed professorship.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Doctors Manitoba Award winners share UM medical college connection
February 26, 2024 —
The list of this year’s Doctors Manitoba Award winners has been released and the Max Rady College of Medicine is once again well represented.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Advocacy at centre of med student-led EDI conference
February 21, 2024 —
Patient advocacy was the focus of the second annual Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Medical Conference held on Feb. 17 on the Bannatyne campus.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Canadian Cancer Society awards two UM emerging scholars
January 22, 2024 —
Two researchers at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences were among the winners of the Canadian Cancer Society’s 2023 Emerging Scholar Research Grants competition.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Student leader with passion for equity wins Hall of Fame award
December 18, 2023 —
Mirha Zohair is the 2023 UM recipient of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Award for Medical Students.
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Rady grad student profile: Saeid Maghsoudi working on new drug to save newborns
November 21, 2023 —
Saeid Maghsoudi’s research aims to develop a drug to treat babies that are short of oxygen at birth.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Marking 140 years of health research impact
November 17, 2023 —
The Max Rady College of Medicine at UM is marking a milestone. It’s been 140 years since it was founded in 1883 as the Manitoba Medical College, Western Canada’s first medical school.