23 Jan 2020 | Foundation News, Research Stories
Approximately 15% of Canadians live with a food allergy. These debilitating and sometimes life-threatening reactions leave those affected constantly worried about encountering foods like peanuts, eggs, shellfish and others. Dr. Bruce Mazer, Executive Director and...
18 Nov 2019 | Research Stories
Award-winning scientists call for more data sharing in health care A team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) have won the inaugural Trottier Webster Innovation Award for a new project that empowers patients through...
13 Nov 2018 | Patient Stories, Research Stories
The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Foundation is pleased to announce the close of its fundraising campaign inspired by two medical luminaries, Drs. Sylvia and Richard Cruess. Sharing an extraordinary bond as husband and wife and as physicians and educators,...
11 Jul 2018 | Research Stories
Kayemor is a village located in the southern part of Senegal. Small in size and considered underdeveloped by Western standards, it holds a special place in Dr. Momar Ndao’s heart. He was born there and although he no longer calls it home, it was in Kayemor that he was...
11 Jun 2018 | Research Stories
The month was June and the year was 2000. Dr. Lucy Gilbert makes the trip across the pond from London to Montreal after being offered a complimentary, no obligations trip to visit the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). Having never travelled to Canada before, Dr....
26 Jan 2017 | Research Stories
Even as a child Nadia Giannetti was drawn to medicine, and went to work in a hospital the first chance she got, volunteering as a candy striper at the Montreal General Hospital while in high school. She went on to receive her MD from McGill University in 1991, then...
