A student presenting their poster at MSHRF.

Winnipeg Free Press: U of M chemist earns award for work on new drug candidate for treating Lou Gehrig’s disease

November 17, 2025 —

A University of Manitoba PhD candidate with a dramatic life story has been awarded the Mitacs Innovation Award for co-inventing an aspiring new drug candidate for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, announced Monday.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

CBC: Die-off of hundreds of birds something Manitoba hasn’t experienced ‘at this scale’: biologist

Dr. Hannah Wallace, Lead Research Associate in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba with expertise in viral immunology, said it is strange that after years of avian influenza circulating in North America there would be so many bird deaths at once.

Winnipeg Free Press: U of M researchers studying whether genetic testing helps zero in on effective mental-health treatment meds

“Someone with mental-health conditions, they (try) multiple medications, and sometimes it takes months or years to get to a point where those drugs work for them, or to have less side effects,” said Dr. Abdullah Maruf, the lead investigator on the study and assistant professor in U of M’s College of Pharmacy.