Research and International News Archive

November 16, 2022 — 
Join the conversation December 1 around UM’s new era of research.

November 15, 2022 — 
This year’s UM Indigenous Health Research Symposium, hosted by Ongomiizwin -- Research, takes place Nov. 16 and 17 in an all-virtual format.

November 4, 2022 — 
A team led by Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum from the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and St. Boniface Hospital Research has identified a protein called TRAF2 that stops functioning in cancer patients taking the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin, which can result in heart failure.

October 28, 2022 — 
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a treatment reserved for the most severe cases of depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Positive results are not guaranteed. Could genetic insight in the form of a patient’s “polygenic risk score” help to predict whether electroconvulsive therapy will be effective for that patient?

October 24, 2022 — 
Javad Alizadeh, a PhD candidate in the department of human anatomy and cell sciences in the Max Rady College of Medicine, is attempting to slow the process of metastasis to contain cancer in one part of the body.

October 21, 2022 — 
Dr. Digvir Jayas, who completed his most recent term as Vice-President (Research and International) was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada on October 20, 2022.

October 19, 2022 — 
UM dean named among Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women.

October 18, 2022 — 
Racist segregation housing practices in the USA have had a genetic impact on urban wildlife, a new study by University of Manitoba in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports.

October 17, 2022 — 
UM Open Access Week Symposium

October 17, 2022 — 
'We’re giving greater access to data, and as a citizenry, we shouldn’t have to sift through tables to find useful data.'