What do conditions such as stress, diabetes, and mental illnesses have in common? The answer, one in which Dr Patricia Pelufo Silveira excels, is the search for a shared origin story. Dr Silveira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University, a researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and a Primary […]
A $10M grant from the Canada Brain Research Fund in support of a new partnership to link Canada’s neuroscience researchers through a shared, interoperable neuroinformatics platform was announced today by Health Canada and Brain Canada. The inaugural meeting of the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) collaboration also began its first meeting. A long-time proponent of […]
The Faculty of Medicine is seeking applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the field of Pain Genomics, from candidates with expertise in statistical genetics and/or bioinformatics working in complex human traits and with an interest in their application to pain research. The position is linked with McGill’s Alan Edwards […]
Women researchers remain significantly underrepresented in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering and math. The lack of women across the STEM pipeline—from undergraduate and graduate students to postdocs and tenure-track professors—make it unlikely that gender parity among tenured STEM professors will be achievable in the next decade. In the USA and Canada, mathematics is the exception, […]
It’s no secret; globally sexism continues to prevail within business, academia and research, particularly, in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math. The theme of the 2018 United Nations’ International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11th is ‘Equality and Parity in Science’. On March 8th, International Women’s Day builds on this with […]
Alzheimer’s and dementia research just got a significant boost from a tripartite Canada-Cuba-China research collaboration. Ludmer Centre Scientific Director Dr Alan Evans is part of an international team that just received $1 M in financial support over three years to initiate the first scientific collaboration on brain imaging and neuroinformatics among leading neuroscience researchers in Canada, […]
Congratulations to Dr Alan Evans. Clarivate Analytics once again ranked him among the most Highly Cited Researchers in Neuroscience and Behavior, a ranking he has maintained annually since in 2014. Three other McGill Univeristy researchers also made the top 1% ranking: Dr Mark Lathrop in Molecular Biology and Genetics, Dr Chao-Jun Li in Chemistry, and […]
If Canadians living with a mental illness could access better treatments, annually upwards of 352,000 Canadians living with depression or anxiety could re-enter the workforce as productive employees. “This highlights the fact that there is a [return on investment], there is a gain for the employer in acting on mental health in the workplace,” said […]
McGill University will launch an ambitious effort to advance understanding of the human brain and ease the burden of neurological and mental-health disorders, thanks to an $84 million, seven-year grant announced today under the federal government’s Canada First Excellence Research Fund (CFREF). Totaling over $213 million across three institutions – Montreal will be one of […]
Women who reported higher levels of childhood adversity combined with higher levels of self-reported depressive symptoms are significantly more likely to live in low socio-economic environments. A new collaborative study, which included Ludmer Centre researchers A. Bouvette-Turcot, E. Unternaehrer, H. Gaudreau and M. Meaney, suggest that Socio-economic status is influenced by a life-course-pathway that begins […]