September
News: Summer program gives undergrads immersive research feel
September 27, 2021
The BrainsCAN internship provides undergraduate students who self-identify as members of visible minorities, Indigenous, LGBTQ2S+, with a disability, or as a woman, an opportunity to have an immersive neuroscience research experience.
Funding: Dr. Ana Lohmann awarded $400K for breast cancer research
September 24, 2021
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s Career Catalyst Research Grant will support Dr. Lohmann’s research investigating the use of liquid biopsies for predicting breast cancer recurrence.
Learner Perspectives: Jing Wen (Jenny) Liu, PhD, on changing the narrative about resilience
September 22, 2021
Jenny Liu's scholarship bridges research in stress and resilience with community-based applications. She is the creator and lead author of the Multi-System Model of Resilience. "“When it comes to resilience, we tend to think of it as an end goal. When really, we should honour the process and the journey that we take."
Announcement: Alumnus Dr. Kevin Pottie returns to Western as the Ian McWhinney Chair of Family Medicine Studies
September 16, 2021
Dr. Kevin Pottie has been appointed as the Ian McWhinney Chair of Family Medicine Studies at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, effective September 7, 2021 to September 6, 2026.
Feature: Human versus machine: Investigating the impact of AI technologies on compassionate care
September 15, 2021
Dr. Ben Chin-Yee is an AMS Healthcare Fellowship in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence investigating the use of genomic algorithms to predict oncology patient outcomes, and their impact on compassionate and equitable patient care.
President Shepard on community safety
September 14, 2021
In light of disturbing allegations of sexual violence and the unrelated, devastating death of a first-year student over the weekend, President Alan Shepard shared this message with the campus community on Sept. 13.
Funding: 2021 NSERC competition results in more than $1M for research initiatives
September 09, 2021
Zia Khan, PhD, Marco Prado, PhD, Lisa Cameron, PhD, Parisa Shoostari, PhD, Lisa Hoffman, PhD, Daniel Hardy, PhD and Brian Corneil, PhD, were awarded funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 2021 Discovery Grant Competition.
News: Western welcomes first National Indigenous Scholarship recipients
September 08, 2021
Among the recipients of the inaugural National Indigenous Scholarships is Delainey Mattern, Dentistry Class of 2025.
News: From Cholera to COVID: New course melds past with present
September 07, 2021
Shelley McKellar, PhD, Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, has developed a new course: From Cholera to COVID: How Epidemics Change the Way We Live. By studying outbreaks of previous centuries, students gain context around uncertainty and change amidst major epidemiological events.
Feature: Tracing the root of vaccine-induced blood clots
September 07, 2021
Angela Huynh, Medicine Class of 2023, focused her PhD studies on one specific protein, only to discover that it is the same one implicated in the blood clotting that occurs in rare circumstances after the Astra Zeneca vaccine.
Feature: Collaborative research explores cannabis use in pregnancy
September 01, 2021
Animal studies are beginning to show that using cannabis while pregnant may pose a risk to the health of the baby.
