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Dr. Juliet Daniel Named One of Canada’s Top Black Innovators in Research and Medicine

Dr. Juliet Daniel is one of only 3 Canadian scientists to be named a Black Innovator in Research and Medicine by the Government of Canada’s Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). The award celebrates her research on Triple Negative Breast Cancer, an aggressive form of cancer with higher rates of incidence among Black and Hispanic women. […]

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Dr. Jianping Xu’s research on drug-resistant fungi featured in McMaster’s Brighter World

Dr. Jianping Xu was also featured in McMaster’s Brighter World this month for his work in developing a statistically validated list of genes that contribute to drug resistance in the human pathogenic fungus Candida auris. One of the most unexpected findings of the study was that most of the genes identified had never previously been […]

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Upcoming Citizen Science Project on Zooniverse

This article from the Faculty of Science announces the launch of Dani Montocchio’s (PhD candidate; Pat Chow-Fraser Lab) upcoming citizen science project on Zooniverse on January 22, 2024.“This project is a part of my thesis exploring the impacts of changing water-levels in Georgian Bay on coastal wetland ecosystems and communities. Specifically, I am researching whether the appearance […]

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Congratulation McMaster iGEM team!

Congratulations on the publication of the open access article: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INGESTIBLE BIOSENSOR FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF GUT METABOLITES RELATED TO MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER: HYPOTHESIS & THEORY, by Amanda Densil, Mya Elisabeth George, Hala Mahdi, Andrew Chami, Alyssa Mark, Chantal Luo, Yifan Wang, Aribah Ali, Pengpeng Tang, Audrey Yihui Dong, Sin Yu Pao, […]

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