🧠 A team led by Wei-Hsiang Huang, PhD, has created the first “mini-brain” models of Smith-Magenis syndrome, revealing how it disrupts early brain development. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca 👉 rimuhc.ca/en/-/mini-br...

🧠 Une équipe dirigée par Wei-Hsiang Huang, Ph. D., a créé les premiers « minicerveaux » atteints du syndrome de Smith-Magenis, offrant une nouvelle fenêtre sur le développement du cerveau. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca 👉 rimuhc.ca/fr/-/des-mod...

Last week, McGill’s 24th Pow Wow kicked off Indigenous Awareness Weeks (IAW) at McGill! 🧡 Music, dance, food & vendors celebrated Indigenous traditions at Macdonald Campus. See all IAW 2025 events: mcgill.ca/x/i6Z 📸 Neale McDevitt

🎉 L’Institut a célébré 10 ans d’excellence en recherche, collaboration et communauté au site Glen! 🚀 Merci à toutes et à tous pour cette décennie d’impact. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social 🔗 rimuhc.ca/en/-/a-decad...

🎉 The Institute celebrated 10 years of research, collaboration & community at the Glen site! 🚀 Thank you to everyone who made this decade impactful. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social 🔗 rimuhc.ca/en/-/a-decad...

Relier la science et l’inclusion ✨ L’École d’été MISI 2025 a réuni chercheur·e·s, stagiaires et communautés pour explorer l’équité, le genre et les partenariats autochtones. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @economieqc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca 👉 rimuhc.ca/fr/-/relier-...

Bridging science and inclusion ✨ The MISI Summer School 2025 brought researchers, trainees & communities together to advance equity, gender & Indigenous partnerships in health research. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @economieqc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca 👉 rimuhc.ca/en/-/bridgin...

A bookish McGill law student who led hockey’s most fabled team to the Stanley Cup when he wasn’t busy writing exams. It sounds too crazy to be true - but it actually happened. Ken Dryden, LLB’73, LLD’18. What an incredible life RIP

For generations of McGill students, The Word Bookstore on Milton Street has been almost as familiar a landmark as the Roddick Gates or the Redpath Museum. Adrian King-Edwards, BA’71, the bookshop’s co-founder and owner, shares some memories mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/a-little-boo...

As “51st state” rhetoric drove Canadian patriotism to a fever pitch this year, Brian Naish, BSc’93, unexpectedly found himself playing a pivotal role at an historic moment – as the country’s biggest flag maker mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/a-flag-hungr...

This Truth and Reconciliation Day, McGill’s men’s hockey team faces UQTR in an exhibition game in Mashteuiatsh—made possible by senior forward Mikisiw Awashish, who aimed to give back to his hometown and inspire Indigenous youth. 🏒🧡 🔗 mcgill.ca/x/iuc

Congrats to the winners of the 2025 Gairdner Early Career Investigators competition! 🎉 Prativa Baral • Arielle Elkrief • Joel Finbloom • Martha Paynter • Nika Shakiba See them at #GairdnerScienceWeek, Oct 20-23. Learn more about the winners: bit.ly/2025-eci

The University Flag will be lowered today, Wed, Sept 17, 2025, in honour of Asst. Prof. Kalonde Malama (Ingram School of Nursing ), who passed away on Apr 17 at age 34. A global health researcher focused on HIV prevention for marginalized populations in sub-Saharan Africa.

🎉 Félicitations à la Dre Nada Jabado, lauréate de la médaille McLaughlin de la Société royale du Canada pour ses recherches sur les tumeurs cérébrales infantiles et l’épigénétique. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @hme-mch.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca @sante.quebec 🔗 rimuhc.ca/fr/-/nada-ja...

🎉 Congrats to Dr. Nada Jabado, awarded the Royal Society of Canada’s McLaughlin Medal for her groundbreaking work on pediatric brain tumours and epigenetics. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @hme-mch.bsky.social @sante.quebec @healthsciences.mcgill.ca 🔗 rimuhc.ca/en/-/nada-ja...

McGill University has been named a top performer in the 2025 Sustainable Campus Index. 🌎⭐ Tied for 1st place in 2 categories, including Research, McGill has also been recognized with a rare Platinum STARS® rating. Read more in the McGill Reporter: https://mcgill.ca/x/i2g

From September 19 to 30, the Office of Indigenous Initiatives will host Indigenous Awareness Weeks, McGill’s annual celebration of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities and cultures. 🔗 See the full calendar of events: https://mcgill.ca/x/i6Z

🔬 Le Dr Lorenzo Ferri (L’Institut) et le Dr Donald Ingber (Harvard) ont créé un organe sur puce capable de prédire la réponse à la chimiothérapie. Une percée en oncologie de précision! @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @wyssinstitute.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca rimuhc.ca/fr/-/un-orga...

🔬 Dr. Lorenzo Ferri (The Institute) and Dr. Donald Ingber (Harvard) created an organ-on-a-chip that predicts chemotherapy response — a breakthrough in precision oncology! @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @wyssinstitute.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca @harvard.edu 👉 rimuhc.ca/-/an-organ-c...

👏 Félicitations à Wei-Hsiang Huang, Ph. D., scientifique à L’Institut, lauréat du Prix Maud Menten des IRSC pour ses recherches en génétique et neurosciences. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca En savoir plus 👉 rimuhc.ca/fr/-/wei-hsi...

👏 Congrats to Wei-Hsiang Huang, PhD, Scientist at The Institute, awarded the CIHR Maud Menten Prize for groundbreaking genetics & neuroscience research. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca Learn more 👉 rimuhc.ca/-/mcgill-neu...

This year's Pow Wow will embrace a more traditional format and the collaboration between McGill and John Abbott College (@JAC_Montreal) reflects values of community, shared knowledge and respect for land. 📍Sept. 19 at Watson Field, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. Read more: https://mcgill.ca/x/iXK

Students with overprotective parents are more vulnerable to anxiety in their transition to university, McGill study shows. 💭 Read more: https://mcgill.ca/x/iBx

Happy Back to School! We asked our Grad Students to share their experiences of studying #FamilyMedicine. Natalia Romero: mcgill.ca/familymed/ar... Raisa Chowdhury: mcgill.ca/familymed/ar... Amir Chalati: mcgill.ca/familymed/ar... Lauryn Green: mcgill.ca/familymed/ar... @healthsciences.mcgill.ca

McGill researchers found that BPA substitutes used in food packaging—such as chemicals in price stickers on meat, fish, cheese, and produce—may cause harmful effects in human ovarian cells, showing early signs of toxicity. 🔗 Read more: mcgill.ca/x/i7D

Next week @healthsciences.mcgill.ca September 3, 2025 Reimagining global health in an era of polycrisis and nationalism www.mcgill.ca/ssom/upcomin...

#Espoir #Alzheimer Un travail de vulgarisation hors pair de Mélanie Meloche-Holubowski @gabproulx.bsky.social avec Sandra Demontigny et Dr Serge Gauthier dans la vidéo + le Dr Claudio Cuello @healthsciences.mcgill.ca dans le texte web ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/218... @nature.com via @jasminll

How can we imagine another person’s experience of illness to the extent that we begin to empathize as if the experience were our own? Come hear from Prof. Junko Kitanaka! Date: August 28, 4pm Location: 210/211, McIntyre Medical Building No registration required! @healthsciences.mcgill.ca

🧬 A new study from The Institute (EClinicalMedicine) shows that parental gestational or type 2 diabetes raises the risk of type 1 diabetes in kids. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca Learn more: rimuhc.ca/en/-/new-stu...

🧬 Une étude de L’Institut (EClinicalMedicine) révèle que le diabète gestationnel ou de type 2 chez les parents accroît le risque de diabète de type 1 chez l’enfant. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca En savoir plus : rimuhc.ca/fr/-/une-nou...

McGill researchers found that even after the #MeToo movement, news coverage of sexual violence remains harmful. Their review of 41 studies shows little meaningful progress in how the media reports on the issue. 🔗 Read more: mcgill.ca/x/i7R

A new study suggests the brain may be a missing link in certain forms of high blood pressure traditionally attributed to the kidneys. 🧂➡️ www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...

🚨ALERTE EXPERT🚨 De nouvelles lignes directrices nationales sur le sevrage tabagique recommandent que les cigarettes électroniques ne soient généralement pas le premier choix pour arrêter de fumer. 🚭 Des experts de l’Université McGill sont disponibles pour commenter : www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/fr/...

A common hereditary cancer mutation in Quebec traced back 11 generations to a single ancestor. Study co-led by William Foulkes at The Institute. @genomequebec.bsky.social @cusm-muhc.bsky.social Learn more: rimuhc.ca/en/-/common-...

Une mutation génétique fréquente au Québec, liée au syndrome de Lynch, retracée sur 11 générations. Découverte codirigée par William Foulkes à L’Institut. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @genomequebec.bsky.social En savoir plus: rimuhc.ca/fr/-/cancer-...

🚨 Call for Proposals: D2R International Partnerships Program 🚨 The D2R International Partnerships Program (IPP) provides funding to foster formal, institution-level collaborations between McGill/D2R and world-leading organizations 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/weWdfHN

How does #McGill Innovation Fund (MIF) help #research leap from the lab into the real world? 💡 ➡️ 🌎 On AUTM's On The Air recent podcast episode, our R+I colleague shares how the #MIF was born, why it’s unique, & the success stories its already feulling 🚀 🎧 Listen here ⬇️ mcgill.ca/x/ihR

A new study has found that how severely a person experiences tinnitus is shaped not just by hearing loss, but by their mood, sleep quality and even personality traits. 👂 www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...

🩺 Welcome to the MDCM Class of 2029! This week, 212 students start their medical training in Montreal and 38 in Outaouais. Thanks to the Canadian Medical Association @cmadocs.bsky.social for continuing the 25+ year tradition of gifting backpacks at Orientation! #McGillMed #Orientation2025

Dans un commentaire publié dans le Journal of Clinical Oncology, Julia Burnier, Ph. D., met en lumière un groupe national qu’elle a fondé pour repenser le langage utilisé dans la communication sur la recherche en cancer. @healthsciences.mcgill.ca rimuhc.ca/fr/-/repense...

In a new Journal of Clinical Oncology commentary, cancer researcher Julia Burnier, PhD, spotlights a national group she founded that unites scientists, clinicians, patients & advocates to rethink the language of cancer research communication. @healthsciences.mcgill.ca rimuhc.ca/-/rethinking...

A McGill research team has uncovered Canada’s first dinosaur-era dragonfly fossil. The discovery reveals a species new to science and fills a 30-million-year gap in the fossil record. 🔗 mcgill.ca/x/ihs

🚲 Cycling across QC, McGill student Ryan Hull blends advocacy, music and sport to raise funds and awareness for rare diseases research. Inspired by a family member’s diagnosis, he plays piano at each stop to connect communities and spark conversations. Read more: https://mcgill.ca/x/ihe

From art shows to music venues and fashion runways, Montreal’s creative energy is at the heart of Scatterbrain Magazine. ✨ Founded by #McGillGrads at the @schulicmusic, it has become a self-published platform powered by a creative team. 🔗 https://mcgill.ca/x/inH#McGillGrads

La Dre Lucy Gilbert et son équipe à L’Institut s’associent à Vision 770 pour offrir des soins oculaires rapides aux patientes en essai sur le cancer de l’ovaire. Protéger la vision, poursuivre le traitement. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca rimuhc.ca/fr/-/s-attaq...

Dr. Lucy Gilbert and her team at The Institute partner with Vision 770 to provide rapid eye care for ovarian cancer trial patients — protecting vision and keeping treatment on track. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca rimuhc.ca/en/-/tacklin...

“When I was in medical school, we barely even talked about the social determinants of health, let alone structural determinants like medical colonialism,” Dr. Shaheen-Hussain says. Read more: mcgill.ca/familymed/ar... @healthsciences.mcgill.ca

Une exposition modérée à l’arsenic pendant la grossesse pourrait nuire au développement des reins. Nouvelle étude dirigée par la Dre Indra Gupta à L’Institut. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca 🔗 rimuhc.ca/fr/-/l-expos...

Even moderate arsenic exposure during pregnancy may affect kidney development and raise the risk of chronic disease. New study by Dr. Indra Gupta at The Institute. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca 🔗 rimuhc.ca/en/-/arsenic...

Adding beauty filters to selfies might enhance perceived attractiveness - but at a social cost. 🤳 A McGill study shows that digitally enhanced photos may boost perceived beauty, but also harm social perceptions. 🔗 Read more: mcgill.ca/x/inP