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St. Boniface Hospital Research celebrates World Alzheimer’s Day
Every year on September 21st, Alzheimer’s organizations around the world concentrate their efforts on raising awareness about Alzheimer’s and dementia. St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre is home to world-class Alzheimer’s research!...
Vanier Scholarship Awarded
Congratulations to Ms. Jacqueline Hay, PhD trainee, Duhamel Lab, who has been awarded a Vanier scholarship for her project “Associations between fitness, activity intensity, and time: the influence of novel risk for chronic disease in Manitoba” The prestigious Vanier...
Fernyhough group to get SPOR funding
A St. Boniface Hospital Research team has received funding to develop a SPOR (Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research) network. The SPOR Network in Diabetes and Its Related Complications is intended to transform the health outcomes of people with diabetes and its...
O receives NSERC Award
Congratulations to Dr. Karmin O, Principal Investigator, Integrative Biology Laboratory, Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine, who received an NSERC Discovery Award in the amount of $140,000 for her study “The Biological impact of dietary...
MMSF & Research Centre: Awards
Congratulations to former CCARM member and current collaborator Dr. Danielle Defries on receiving $32,000 (MMSF $16,000 / CHRIM $16,000) for her study, “The Impact of Gestational Diabetes on Maternal Incretin Function”. Her aim is to see if GDM reduces the number of...
Schwartz picks up 3 awards
Congratulations to Ms. Anna Schwartz, BSc Med student, who received a total of 3 awards at the September 7th BSc Med Ceremony, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba. Her project was entitled, “The prophylactic role of RAS antagonism in the...
Protecting hearts – Berry compound shows remarkable promise
Eating blackberries and black elderberries might protect your heart and prevent high blood pressure. That’s what Drs. Jeffrey Wigle and Thomas Netticadan of St. Boniface Hospital are trying to prove.
