- Congratulations to Saba Al Heialy for her prize-winning PhD presentation at the APPQ-RSR du FRSQ meeting in Quebec City (Nov 3-5) (11 Nov, 2011)
- Qutayba Hamid presented a keynote lecture entitled “Recent advances in the pathogenesis of severe asthma” at the 2011 CHEST Conference in Hawaii in October (10 Nov, 2011)
- Congratulations to David Eidelman on his appointment as Dean of Medicine and Vice-Principal for Health Affairs at McGill University (17 Oct, 2011)
- Congratulations to the winners at the Respiratory Axis Research Day:
Clinical Fellows: Nicole Ezer (1st); Nathalie Saad (2nd)
Post Doctoral Fellows: Christian Giordano (1st); Audrey Poon (2nd)
Graduate Students: Saba Al Heialy (1st); Toby McGovern (2nd)
- Qutayba Hamid has received the 2011 Distinguished Lecturer in Respiratory Sciences Award from the CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health and the Canadian Thoracic Society in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the advancement of respiratory sciences in Canada. The award will be presented in October at the 2011 CHEST Conference in Hawaii where he will give a keynote lecture.
- Congratulations to Mihaela Paun for receiving the Marie Curie Award from the Radiation Research Society for the best abstract submitted by a Scholar-in-Training. (30 May, 2011)
- Congratulations to Maziar Divangahi for obtaining a New Investigator Award from the CIHR (20 Apr, 2011)
- Congratulations to Christina Haston for renewing her Canadian Cancer Society grant (Inflammatory composition of radiation-induced lung disease) (14 Apr, 2011)
- Congratulations to MCL researchers for receiving NSERC grants:
Maziar Divangahi (Genomic study of the macrophage death program induced by mycobacterium tuberculosis); Jim Martin (Role of CD44 in bidirectional crosstalk between smooth muscle and T lymphocytes); Bruce Mazer (Semaphorin 4C; a novel homing molecule in memory B cell and plasma cell development) (25 Mar, 2011)
- We were extremely saddened by the unexpected death of Peter Macklem last month. Peter was the founding Director of the Meakins-Christie Laboratories between 1972 and 1979, when he resigned to become Chair of the Dept of Medicine at McGill. He was a widely respected international figure in respiratory research and was active until his death on February 11. We will miss him greatly. For obituaries see see pages on McGill and yourlifemoments. A memorial for Peter will be held at McGill in May.
- Congratulations to Ying Chang (Dr. Hamid); Mark Bazett (Dr. Haston) and Toby McGovern (Dr. Martin) who have been selected as the winners of the Meakins Recognition Awards, for high caliber publications by trainees.
- Congratulations to Sabah Hussain whose grant application (Mechanisms of Angiopoietin/Tie-2 signaling in endothelial cells) was ranked 2nd out of 55 by the CIHR cardiovascular committee