Faculty of Medicine to collaborate with the Royal College on health research and education
Preferred partnership will foster collaborations in planetary health, social accountability, health care provider wellness and other key priority areas.
Creating space for discovery: New medical research centre will fuel innovation
The Advanced Medical Research Centre (AMRC) will add major velocity to the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine's efforts to address the great scientific challenges of the 21st century.
Adjunct professor at the Faculty and Ottawa medical officer of health Dr. Vera Etches talks new directions and knowledge gained from COVID-19’s onslaught—and prioritizing wellness in times of crisis.
Rigorous new research suggests theory on why women at Nazi death camps stopped menstruating on arrival
Dr. Peggy J. Kleinplatz suggests synthetic steroids were being slipped in the daily rations given to female captives of Nazi concentration camps in a bid to stop their menstrual cycles and perhaps impair their ability to have children altogether.
uOttawa Faculty of Medicine team reveals underpinnings of how motor memory forms
Dr. Simon Chen’s lab zooms in on how the brain’s motor neurons create a kind of shorthand between mind and muscle, potentially shedding light on recovery in motor-related brain injury and diseases.
First-in-Canada MOU with College of Family Physicians to advance global training and research
Building on its preferred partnerships, the Faculty is poised to share resources with CFPC’s Besrour Centre and its international network of collaborators.
Study reveals starring role for shape-shifting mitochondria in stem cell function
Dr. Mireille Khacho’s research team shows evidence that a mitochondrial shaping protein is essential for muscle stem cell maintenance and function, potentially paving the way for muscle-regenerating therapies.
New insights on how some individuals with obesity can lose weight – and keep it off
The uOttawa-led team’s rigorous study has the potential to help reshape the science of weight-loss programs so they can be personalized for individual patients with difficult-to-treat obesity.
CIHR awards over $21.5M to research teams from uOttawa Faculty of Medicine and affiliated institutes
uOttawa Faculty of Medicine and affiliated institutes teams awarded more than $21.5M to support cutting-edge research through the Spring 2022 CIHR Project Grant competition.
uOttawa-led team develops AI-enabled model to diagnose birth defect in fetal ultrasound images
The goal of the team’s study was to demonstrate the potential for deep-learning architecture to support early and reliable identification of cystic hygroma from first trimester ultrasound scans.
New research shows dangerous levels of despair among Canada’s transgender & gender nonconforming youth
Dr. Ian Colman, professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, shares his thoughts on new study suggesting transgender and gender non-conforming adolescents are over 5 times more likely to be suicidal.
Research suggests specialized brain imaging can unveil mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease, other disorders
A novel brain imaging technique can potentially be used in large-scale screenings for Alzheimer’s, while also providing possible insights about the disease’s earliest stages, long before symptoms emerge.
November 2022
