2103 is the number of mutations identified to date in patients with cystic fibrosis, the most common fatal genetic disease in Canada. Behind this figure lie huge challenges for patients and research. Emmanuelle Brochiero and Damien Adam, two…
Twelve researchers from the CHUM Research Centre have been awarded career grants under the Chercheurs-boursiers program of the Fonds de recherche du Québec en santé (FRQS).
The total funding for the 12 recipients is close to $2.3 million. The…
At the conference scheduled for April 30th, we will hear from Jean-François Carrier, a researcher with the CRCHUM’s Imaging and Engineering Research Theme.
Brachytherapy, which consists of inserting radioactive sources into or near tumours to…
For the CRCHUM conference, we will welcome on April 23, Diana Matheoud, a researcher with the CRCHUM’s Neurosciences Theme. Her research focuses on the role of mitochondrial antigen in neurodegenerative disease.
Two important hallmarks of…
On Friday, April 16 at noon, the CRCHUM Conference series will features Scott Kanoski, an associate professor in Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California. who studies the neurobiology of obesity onset, treatment, and…
On Friday, April 9th at noon, the CRCHUM Conference series will feature Andrès Finzi, a researcher with the CRCHUM’s Immunopathology Research Theme, an associate professor in the Université de Montréal’s Department of Microbiology, Infectiology and…
Imagine a “weather report for the brain” able to send out a warning via an implantable chip to an epileptic person a few hours or days before the onset of their seizure. A pipe dream, you think? Not for two researchers at the CHUM Research Centre (…
For the first time in Canada, a team from the CHUM Research Centre (CRCHUM) will study the efficacy of a therapy combining intestinal microbiota and immunotherapy to treat melanoma. The goal? To show that altering intestinal microbiota…
The CHUM Research Centre management is pleased and proud to announce the appointment of a student representative and a postdoctoral fellow representative to its scientific committee. These appointments, a first for the CRCHUM, are already in effect…
For the CRCHUM Conference we will welcome on March 26, Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo, is Professor in Development and molecular biology and Co‑Director of the Einstein Institute for Aging Studies, New York.
Cells count on surveillance systems to handle…