AllerGen trainee and gut microbiome researcher Dr. Meghan Azad has been featured in the “Faces” series leading up to The 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Physiology or Medicine), be held June 29-July 4, 2014, in Lindau, Germany. The “Faces” blog series profiles just a few …
Dr. Michael Brauer, a Professor at the School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, and an AllerGen Principal Investigator, has been named as the first recipient of the Asthma Society of Canada’s Bastable-Potts Asthma Research Prize. …
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AllerGen investigator Dr. Louis-Philippe Boulet was presented the 2014 CIHR-ICRH-CTS Distinguished Lecturer in Respiratory Sciences award during the 7th annual Canadian Respiratory Conference (CRC) held in Calgary, Alberta, from April 24-26, 2014. As part of the honour, Dr. Boulet delivered a keynote lecture at …
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University of Toronto (U of T) PhD student Natalia Mykhaylova has received the Professor Douglas Reeve Leaders of Tomorrow Award. This award recognizes graduate students in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry who have shown the potential to …
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AllerGen trainee and gut microbiome researcher Dr. Meghan Azad has been selected to attend a prestigious week-long meeting that unites more than 30 Nobel Prize winners with 600 of the world’s brightest young scientists. Dr. Meghan Azad The 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate …
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On November 28, 2013, a much-needed asthma clinic opened in El Salvador’s National Lung Hospital. The “Clinica del Asma: Dr. Dean Befus” is named after AllerGen investigator Dr. Dean Befus, director the University of Alberta-based Alberta Asthma Centre, who spearheaded the initiative …
A project to develop a simple test strip to measure bronchitis in patients with asthma and COPD has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Grand Challenges Canada’s global health care program. Dr. Parameswaran Nair, an AllerGen investigator and the …
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Professor Timothy Caulfield, a health law expert whose work debunks common health myths and informs the development of Canadian health and science policies, has been chosen as a 2013 Trudeau Fellowship recipient. The fellowship, valued at $225,000 over three …
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Dr. Sonia Anand, AllerGen Principal Investigator and Professor of Medicine at McMaster University, and a team of maternal/child health researchers from across Canada have recently received a $2 million grant to investigate the role of maternal and infant nutrition on …
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Dr. Douglas Barber, a leading Canadian businessman, entrepreneur, and a founding member of the AllerGen NCE Network Board of Directors has been named to Hamilton’s Gallery of Distinction. Dr. Barber co-founded Linear Technology Inc. in 1973 and developed the Burlington-based …
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Two early career researchers from the Allergy, Genes and Environment (AllerGen NCE Inc.) Network, have been named 2013 Banting Postdoctoral Fellows. The fellowships, each valued at $70,000 per year for two years, are Canada’s most prestigious awards for post-doctoral research. …
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Dr. Parameswaran Nair and Dr. John Brennan of McMaster University have received a $600,000 award to develop a bioactive paper that aims to provide an inexpensive, point-of-care diagnostic tool for asthma and COPD. The paper strip will measure the quantity …
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