Research Institute
Message from Dr. Papadopoulos
Posted December 20th, 2007 by cléa
Watch a special video from the director of the McGill University Health Centre's Research Institute, Dr. Vassilios Papadopoulos.
Cigarette smoking does not affect everyone in same way
Dr. Manuel Cosio from the McGill University Health Centre, in collaboration with Italian and Spanish scientists, reports in The New England Journal of Medicine that an autoimmune mechanism, compounded by genetic predisposition in COPD, would explain the progression of the disease in some smokers and the evasion in others.
MUHC Research Firsts
Take a look through our list of research firsts to see how our scientists have contributed to worldwide medical knowledge.
MUHC, McGill University receive largest-ever CFI research grant
$100
million in federal funding for the Research Institute of the McGill
University Health Centre on the Glen Campus will result in
groundbreaking medical advances.
Dr. Ronald Olivenstein
For Dr. Ronald Olivenstein, asthma specialist at the MUHC, each new patient represents both an enigma and a challenge. He has never seen an “uninteresting case”; he doesn’t even know what that means.
