CIBC partners with St. Boniface for earlier detection of lung cancer
$75K commitment to St. Boniface Hospital Foundation will fund new research with potential to improve patient outcomes An estimated one in four cancer-related deaths are caused by lung cancer. Research at St. Boniface Hospital, made possible by the support of Canadian...
Mishra claims first at 3MT
Congratulations to Pranav Mishra, a Graduate Student from Dr. Benedict Albensi's laboratory and co-supervised by Dr. Paul Fernyhough, who claimed first place and a prize of $2500 at Three Minute Thesis (3MT) on April 7th. The University of Manitoba 3MT is an annual...
Netticadan appointed CCARM team lead
Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Netticadan who has been named Team Leader of the Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM), for a three-year term effective April 1, 2022. Dr. Netticadan is Principal Investigator, Heart Failure Research...
Patient-oriented research boosted by leadership training award
Dr. Anna Chudyk, part of SBRC's Health Services and Structural Determinants of Health Research group is a CIHR funded postdoctoral fellow (College of Nursing, UM) who was recently awarded one of 13 Martha Donovan Leadership awards through the Winnipeg Foundation. Dr....
Leadership Training Vital to Success
Sikta Chattopadhyaya, a PhD student with the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, is one of 13 award recipients funding women’s leadership training through the Winnipeg Foundation’s Martha Donovan Leadership Fund. The $250,000 fund was established in 2019 to provide...
Tantalum Carbide MXene Quantum Dots Potential Game-changer for Heart Transplant Patients
For patients needing heart transplants in the future, a recent discovery by Dr. Sanjiv Dhingra and his team of researchers in the Cardiac Regeneration and Tissue Engineering Program here at St. Boniface Hospital Research, may mean they never have to take...