Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine
Advancing Medicine Through Agriculture
The Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM) is dedicated to investigating and understanding the potential health-related benefits found in nutraceuticals, functional foods, and natural health products (health food).
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...
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...
CCARM Students Garner Endowment Grants
L-R: Ronak Fahmi, PhD student; Breanne Semenko, MSc student & Sawanee Wickramasekara, MSc student. Congratulations to three outstanding young investigators with CCARM, who have each been recently recognized with student endowment awards through St. Boniface...
Araujo and Manson named 2021 Vanier Scholars
Congratulations to Daniel Schwade Araujo and Anne Manson, PhD students here at St. Boniface Hospital Research, who were both named 2021 Vanier Scholars. Araujo, studying at the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, will undertake a PhD in Applied Health...
St. Boniface Investigators attract over $300,000 in NSERC funding
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) recently awarded two significant grants to support the work of Dhingra and Moghadasian respectively. Dr. Mohammed Moghadasian, Principal Investigator of the Pathology Research Laboratory, Canadian Centre...
Smart vertical farming to expand in Northern Manitoba
Principal Investigator and UM professor Dr. Miyoung Suh will work with Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN) to develop a smart vertical farming initiative for the community that will benefit many Manitobans. This is part of The Implementing Smart Cities Interventions to Build...