Raquel Farias(supervisor Simon Rousseau) has won 1st place for her presentation at the Congrès Québécois en Santé Respiratoire. (19 Nov, 2013)
Congratulations to Qutayba Hamid on his reappontment as Director of the Meakins-Christie Laboratories for a second 5-year term (5 Nov, 2013)
Congratulations to Anne-Marie Lauzon on her appointment as Director of the Division of Experimental Medicine (5 Nov, 2013)
Francois Coulombe (supervisor Maziar Divangahi) has been awarded RI MUHC Studentship. (29 Aug, 2013)
Lisa Honeyman (supervisor Christina Haston) has been awarded a Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship by the CIHR. (14 Aug, 2013)
Amit Kunwar (supervisor Christina Haston) has been awarded a Richard and Edith Strauss Postdoctoral Fellowship in Respiratory Medicine. (14 Aug, 2013)
Congratulations to Qutayba Hamid on his election as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (7 Aug, 2013)
We are pleased to announce that the 2013-2014 Severe Asthma GlaxoSmithKline Fellowship has been awarded to Kévin Dessalle (sup. Qutayba Hamid & Mara Ludwig). (9 July, 2013)
Congratulations to Bruce Mazer whose CIHR application (GET-FACTS: Genetics, Environment and Therapies: Food Allergy Clinical Tolerance Studies) was ranked first by the review committee for Programmatic Grants in Food and Health. (27 June, 2013)
Congratulations to Joshua Gillard (sup M Divangahi) for winning 2nd place for his presentation at the McGill TB research day. (21 June, 2013)
Congratulations to MCL faculty on their success with CIHR applications (March 1 competition): – Maziar Divangahi (Therapeutic implications of macrophage apoptosis in TB) was rated 2nd by the Respiratory Committee. – Christina Haston was ranked 4th (20 June, 2013)
Congratulations for the winning presentations at the Respiratory Axis Research Day (supervisors in brackets): MSc Students: Ilan Azuelos (Petrof) & Adam Flaczyk (Qureshi) PhD students: François Coulombe (Divangahi) Post Doctoral Fellows: Christian Giordano (Petrof) & Fanny Tzelepis (Divangahi) Clinical Fellows: Chris Walsh (Martin) (20 June, 2013)
Congratulations to Jim Martin for receiving a 3-year grant from Cystic Fibrosis Canada. (11 Mar, 2013)
Congratulations to the following students, who received Meakins Recognition Prizes for their publications in 2012: Amir Massoud (Sup: Bruce Mazer; JACI), Trevor Beaudoin (Sup: Simon Rousseau; J Infect Dis) Karim Shalaby (Sup: Jim Martin; J Immunol), and Alexandra Paun (Sup: Christina Haston; Radiother Oncol). (20 Feb, 2013)
Russ Hepple (Mechanisms of motor unit protection by exercise training in aging muscle) and Jim Martin (Novel roles for cysteinyl leukotrienes in oxidant induced airway injury from chlorine; ranked 2nd in Resp Committee; co-investigator Bill Powell) both received operating grants from the CIHR. (31 Jan, 2013)
