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Tara Horrill and Joel Peasron in individual headshots.

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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Mirha Zohair poses in front of 13 framed illustrations of medical hall of fame laureates from UM. Text on wall reads "Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Laureates."

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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Saeid Maghsoudi looks into a microscope. He is wearing a lab coat and is holding instruments in a petri dish.

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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Dr. Frank Plummer poses for the photo in a lab. He is wearing a white coat.

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.

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Dr. Jake Pyne speaks at a lectern.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

First Queer Health Symposium held at Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

November 6, 2023 — 
The first-ever symposium at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences focused on queer health recently took place on the Bannatyne campus.

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Guneet Uppal and Diana Prince pose for a photo. File folders are on shelves behind them.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

B.Sc. (Med.) program provides students with valuable research experience

October 30, 2023 — 
Meeting like-minded people was one of the reasons Guneet Uppal took part in the bachelor of science in medicine (B.Sc. (Med.) program.

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Five MPAS students wearing white coats and stethoscopes are sitting in chairs. A crowd of people is sitting behind them.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

New MPAS students aim to make positive impact

September 7, 2023 — 
Angel Sen was about to tear up when she received her stethoscope during the Master of Physician Assistant Studies’ (MPAS) Inaugural Exercises.

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10 medical students stand on stage wearing white coats. Faculty members and special guests stand behind the students.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

‘Be the future that we need,’ physician urges new UM medical students

August 24, 2023 — 
This year’s new medical students at UM have lived through the struggles of a pandemic. But they still show a passionate drive to care for others, a prominent Manitoba physician said at the students’ official welcome ceremony on Aug. 23.

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Portrait of Khushali Trivedi in a lab. She is wearing a lab coat. She is holding a pen and a note book is on the counter.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Rady grad student profile: Khushali Trivedi aims to be role model

August 14, 2023 — 
Khushali Trivedi is focused on understanding if a particular protein plays a role in the development of gestational diabetes, one of the most common types of complications that occurs during pregnancy.

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Portrait of Dr. Grant Pierce. In the background is the St. Boniface Hospital logo and it reads "Hopital St-Boniface Hospital, Recherche, Research," and "Foundation."

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM distinguished professor in Rady appointed to Order of Canada

July 6, 2023 — 
Dr. Grant Pierce was appointed Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions as a distinguished professor of physiology and pathophysiology at the Max Rady College of Medicine and for identifying the value of foods like flaxseed in the prevention of cardiovascular disease.

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