OTTAWA, March 25, 2014 — Two researchers from the University of Ottawa and one from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) are exploring better ways to treat pancreatic and breast cancer, and improve the quality of life of breast and gynecological cancer patients after treatment, with the support of the Canadian Cancer Society.
OTTAWA, February 13, 2014 — For people with cancer, chemotherapy can prolong life. However, chemotherapy-induced heart failure is increasingly being recognized as a major clinical challenge.
OTTAWA, February 3, 2014 — For University of Ottawa professor Jules Blais and his brother, Queen’s University professor John Smol, working together to save the environment runs in the family — they’ve been doing it for 15 years.
OTTAWA, January 28, 2014 — The University of Ottawa is delighted to announce that professors Craig Kuziemsky, from the Telfer School of Management, and Denis Lacelle, from the Faculty of Arts, are the winners of the Young Researcher of the Year Award.
OTTAWA, January 17, 2014 — A team of researchers led by Mona Nemer, Professor of Medicine and Vice-President, Research at the University of Ottawa, has discovered an important link between two proteins called GATA4 and cyclin D2, which sheds new light on heart muscle cell repair.
OTTAWA, January 9, 2014 — As campuses across Canada welcome students back from their holidays, cutting-edge research at the University of Ottawa will see a significant financial boost from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
OTTAWA, November 16, 2013 — The University of Ottawa is proud to announce that professors John Bell, Linda Cardinal, Annette O’Connor, Robert Roberts and Patrick J. Walsh have been elected as Fellows in the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) during their Annual General Meeting in Banff, Alberta.
OTTAWA, November 14, 2013 — An interdisciplinary team of researchers have found the “missing heat” in the Earth’s climate system, casting doubts on suggestions that global warming has slowed or stopped over the past decade.
OTTAWA, November 12, 2013 — Ontario adults with developmental disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome are having a harder time accessing health care, even though they have more health issues than other people, according to research done at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
