AUGUST 8, 2017 – OTTAWA, ON – Researchers have discovered that a protein called cardiotrophin 1 (CT1) can trick the heart into growing in a healthy way and pumping more blood, just as it does […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OTTAWA, August 4, 2017 — The long-term productivity of Canadians and Canadian businesses rely on investment in basic scientific research, as described in this year’s Fundamental Science Review, led by Dr. C. […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TORONTO, July 25, 2017 — Living in rural households decreases a person’s risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), particularly for young children and adolescents, according to a new study by researchers […]
OTTAWA, ON – June 10, 2017 – A worldwide network of scientists examining the links between sedentary lifestyles and health problems such as obesity and cardiovascular disease today announced a new dictionary of terms to support research into sedentary behaviour. […]
OTTAWA, June 8, 2017 – The Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, addressed Parliamentarians and Indigenous and non-Indigenous health researchers conducting ground breaking health research at a recent Parliamentary Health Research Caucus Reception in Ottawa. The Honourable Jane Philpott, Minister of Health, attended the event … […]
Dr. Reza Moridi, Minister of Research, Innovation and Science, today announced five translational research grants funded by the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), one of which will boost a first in-human phase one clinical trial to test the safety and efficacy of an oncolytic virus vaccine called Farmington that was engineered at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute (RI) in Dr. David Stojdl’s lab. […]
a new study by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute and the Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium….The number of children under five being diagnosed with IBD is alarming because it was almost unheard of 20 years ago, and it is now much more common,” says Dr. Eric Benchimol, lead author of the study, scientist at ICES, associate professor at the University of Ottawa, and a pediatric gastroenterologist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre […]
Research Canada applauds the Advisory Panel on Federal Support for Fundamental Science on its bold and visionary report, Investing in Canada’s Future: Strengthening the Foundations of Canadian Research, released today in Ottawa. We were pleased to see that so many of Research Canada’s recommendations in its submission to Canada’s Fundamental Science Review, Securing Canadian Leadership in Research and Innovation, were addressed in the Panel’s Report. […]
The board of the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences (CSMB) would like to congratulate Canada Gairdner International Award laureate Dr. Lewis Kay on receiving this most prestigious award. Dr. Kay is an international leader in structural biology who has pushed the limits of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy beyond anything else in the field. […]
The board of the CSMB supports significant measures in the federal government’s 2017 budget to improve skills training, to advance gender equity, to attract foreign talent and to support the National Research Council. However, we are surprised and disappointed that besides some modest targeted investments into programs such as the Stem Cell network, the budget does not contain any new resources for discovery research, especially for the open competitions at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). […]
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