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Keshav Narayan Alagarsamy gives his presentation. A banner behind him reads "Faculty of Graduate Studies" and umanitoba.ca/graduate-studies".

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Rady grad students shine at Three Minute Thesis final

April 5, 2023 — 
Three minutes isn’t much time to explain complex research and novel ideas, but a trio of Rady Faculty of Health Sciences graduate students excelled at presenting their work clearly and concisely in just 180 seconds.

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Digital illustration of a brain with a tumour.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Rady researcher to test new treatments for incurable brain cancers

March 31, 2023 — 
A University of Manitoba researcher is bringing an international clinical trial to Canada to test new and promising treatments for people with low-survival brain cancers.

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Physicians chatting in a hallway.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Family Medicine launches peer support program to combat physician burnout

March 30, 2023 — 
New program hopes to help family physicians thrive, not just survive.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Doctors Manitoba Award winners share ties to UM medical college

March 10, 2023 — 
The UM medical school is well represented on this year’s list of Doctors Manitoba Award winners.

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Dr. Vidyanand Anaparti leans against a counter in a lab. He is wearing a white lab coat.

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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Portrait of Dr. Ruth Ann Marrie.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM researcher wins Barancik Prize for Innovation in MS Research

February 1, 2023 — 
A University of Manitoba researcher is the recipient of the prestigious Barancik Prize for Innovation in Multiple Sclerosis Research.

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3D render of mpox virus.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Researchers from UM, Central Africa team up to investigate mpox

January 10, 2023 — 
Scientists from the University of Manitoba and the National Biomedical Research Institute in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are joining forces to investigate the recent global spread of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) and the evolving virus that causes the illness.   

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Dr. Lisa Lix sits at a table and uses a laptop. On a screen behind her are six graphs.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Data Quality Detective

January 4, 2023 — 
Lisa Lix [M.Sc./91, PhD/95] took an unusual path to becoming an internationally recognized biostatistician.

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Individual portraits of the winners side-by-side.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Six grad students receive Rady Dean’s Prize

December 6, 2022 — 
The Dean of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences Graduate Student Achievement Prize was awarded to six exceptional graduate students in 2022.

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Mother is holding her daughter's hand and is checking her child's diabetes by monitoring blood glucose with a device.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Rady Faculty research projects receive $6.9-M in CIHR funding

November 28, 2022 — 
Six studies led by Rady Faculty of Health Sciences researchers received nearly $7 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

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