Research and International News Archive
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Dr. Meghan Azad Receives Prestigious 2024 Canada Gairdner Award
April 11, 2024 —
Dr. Meghan Azad is a renowned research leader in infant nutrition recognized with the prestigious 2024 Gairdner Momentum Award.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Research aims at personalizing inflammatory bowel disease care
April 9, 2024 —
Dr. Heather Armstrong is at the forefront of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) research and is seeking a more personalized treatment for people living with the chronic disease.
Research and International
The Conversation: How agroecology can be part of a ‘just transition’ for Canada’s food system
April 4, 2024 —
Problems in Canada’s food system are being felt from field to fork — and they are increasingly hard to swallow.
Price Faculty of Engineering
PhD student receives Indigenous Scholar Award
April 4, 2024 —
On April 3rd, The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Brain Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research announced that University of Manitoba PhD student Melissa Anderson is among the inaugural recipients of the Personnel Awards for Indigenous Scholars.
Research and International
Insect Friends and Foes
April 4, 2024 —
On Wednesday April 24, 2024, join the UM Knowledge Exchange for an exploration of efforts to address the declining population of bees and other beneficial insects, along with recent advances in controlling pests like mosquitoes.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
UM researchers plan study of newly diagnosed children with autism
April 2, 2024 —
A UM team is seeking 150 families with a newly diagnosed child with autism to participate in the Pediatric Autism Research Cohort (PARC) study.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Data equity specialist aims for justice in health research
April 1, 2024 —
Dr. Laura Bowler is the first person to hold the position of data equity specialist at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP), a research unit in the Max Rady College of Medicine.
Research and International
Sex workers, marginalization and health in Africa
March 27, 2024 —
UM researchers in Kenya partner with the University of Nairobi to address the spread of infectious diseases among sex worker and sexual minority communities.
Funding paves way for drug discovery platform for heart research at UM
March 25, 2024 —
A project led by Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba has received $3.9 million in federal and provincial funding to develop lab infrastructure dedicated to studying heart disease in women.
Students
DNA in water research
March 22, 2024 —
On World Water Day 2024, discover the vital research of Miguel Uyaguari, an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Manitoba.