UU直播 Dobson Centre ranked among world鈥檚 top incubation programs
By Rosalie Nardelli
UBI Global has released its World University-linked Business Incubator and Accelerator Ranking and has placed the UU直播 Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship in the eight position of the World Top Business Incubator 鈥� Managed by a University category.
UU直播-led genomics centres win $9.8 M, three-year funding support from Genome Canada
The UU直播 and G茅nome Qu茅bec Innovation Centre and the Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics will receive a total of $9.8聽million in funding over three聽years through Genome Canada awards announced Feb. 21.
National study to shed light on aging
聽 by Brenda Branswell 聽 Source: UU直播 News Magazine 聽 Imagine getting a phone call asking if you鈥檇 like to take part in a study 鈥� for the next 20 years. 聽 It鈥檚 a pitch that makes telemarketing look like child鈥檚 play. 聽 So no wonder C
Products derived from plants offer potential as dual-targeting agents for experimental cerebral malaria
Malaria, a life-threatening disease usually caused when parasites from the Plasmodium family enter the bloodstream of a person bitten by a parasite-carrying mosquito, is a severe health threat globally, with 200 to 300 million cases annually and 445,000 deaths in 2016.
Media advisory: Who Pays for Canada? Taxes and Fairness
Are Canadians fair or is that just a story we tell ourselves? Can we reason our way to lessened inequality or are violent cataclysms the only levelling power, as Thomas Piketty and Walter Schiedel argue? How do we maintain a sense and an approximation of fairness in our globalizing and polarizing world? Certainly there can be no fairness without tax fairness: tax policy is where we negotiate the relationship between wealth and poverty.
UU直播 to participate in two of Canada鈥檚 five new 鈥榮uperclusters鈥�
UU直播 will participate in two of the five 鈥渟uperclusters鈥� selected by the Government of Canada for funding under its Innovation Superclusters Initiative:
Not being aware of memory problems predicts onset of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease
Doctors who work with individuals at risk of developing dementia have long suspected that patients who do not realize they experience memory problems are at greater risk of seeing their condition worsen in a short time frame, a suspicion that now has been confirmed by a team of UU直播 clinician scientists.
Najafabadi, Trenholm named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows
Canadian Genomics Cloud launched to provide widespread access to genomics infrastructure for Canada
A national consortium of industry and academic collaborators announced today the launch of the Canadian Genomics Cloud (genomicscloud.ca), an integrated software platform to manage, analyze, and share genome sequence and clinical data.
Meet RIPK3: Good Cop, Bad Cop, all in one
Each year, influenza kills half a million people globally with the elderly and very young most often the victims. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 37聽children have died聽in the United States during the current flu聽season. Aside from getting the flu shot and employing smart hand hygiene, there are no other methods of prevention.
Global project to reduce health inequalities in cities around the world
A major new research partnership has been launched to explore ways of reducing health inequalities in cities around the world. 聽 Coordinated from London and funded with 拢10m (C$17.5 million) from Wellcome Trust, with a global network of expert scientists and practitioners -- including three from UU直播 -- the partnership comprises two integrated urban health projects.
We鈥檙e not addicted to smartphones, we鈥檙e addicted to social interaction
We all know people who, seemingly incapable of living without the bright screen of their phone for more than a few minutes, are constantly texting and checking out what friends are up to on social media.
These are examples of what many consider to be the antisocial behaviour brought on by smartphone addiction, a phenomenon that has garnered media attention in the past few months and led聽 investors and consumers to demand that tech giants address this problem.
Unusual lung structures may raise risk of pulmonary disease
The internal anatomy of our lungs is surprisingly variable, and some of those variations are associated with a greater risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a new study led by researchers at UU直播 and the Columbia University Irving Medical Center
How viruses disarm the immune system
How do viruses that cause chronic infections, such as HIV or hepatitis C聽virus, manage to outsmart their hosts鈥� immune systems?
The answer to that question has long eluded scientists, but new research from UU直播 has uncovered a molecular mechanism that may be a key piece of the puzzle. The discovery could provide new targets for treating a wide range of diseases.
UU直播 benefactor Richard Tomlinson made history
Dr. Richard Tomlinson made philanthropic history for Canadian universities in 2000 when he donated $64 million to UU直播. At the time, it was the largest gift ever made in support of higher education in Canada by an alumnus, and still ranks as the largest single gift UU直播 has ever received from an individual.
