AllerGen investigator Professor Timothy Caulfield of the University of Alberta has won the 2015 Science in Society General Book Award for his book Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash. Prof. Caulfield was “genuinely surprised …
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Update: Timothy Caulfield was selected as the 2015 winner of the Science in Society General Book Award. Among the six shortlisted titles for the 2015 Science in Society General Book Award, two were penned by active members of the AllerGen …
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Dr. Meghan Azad has been named one of 40 awardees in CBC Manitoba’s “Future 40” contest for 2016, which celebrates “Manitoba’s new generation of leaders, builders and change-makers under the age of 40.” Dr. Azad was selected from among over …
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In celebration of his scholarship and creativity in the respiratory sciences, AllerGen investigator Dr. Peter David Paré will be presented the 2016 CIHR-ICRH-CTS Distinguished Lecturer in Respiratory Sciences award at the Canadian Respiratory Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on April …
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AllerGen Research Leader Dr. Paul O’Byrne has been elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS), one of the highest honours for Canadians in the health sciences community. “This is an important recognition of Dr. O’Byrne’s academic …
Dr. Bruce Mazer, an AllerGen investigator and division head of Allergy and Immunology at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, is leading a new study that will determine how the protein Semaphorin 4C (Sema4C) is involved in the development of severe asthma. …
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Dr. Anita Kozyrskyj, an AllerGen investigator and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta—together with a team of CHILD Study researchers from across Canada—has received a five-year operating grant, valued at over $500,000, from the …
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AllerGen investigator Dr. Malcolm Sears has been honoured with an Award for Leadership in Health Research, presented by the Asthma Society of Canada (ASC). Dr. Sears is the Co-Director of AllerGen’s ground-breaking Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, a …
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Dr. Paul O’Byrne, principal investigator for AllerGen’s Clinical Investigator Collaborative Legacy Project, Professor and Chair of Medicine at McMaster University, and Director of the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health at St. Joseph’s Healthcare, is one of five faculty members just …
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AllerGen investigators Dr. Catherine Laprise and Dr. Christopher Carlsten have each been awarded a Canada Research Chair for their outstanding work in the field of asthma and allergies. Dr. Laprise, a professor in the Fundamentals Sciences Department at the Université …
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Dr. Bruce Mazer has been named the Deputy Executive Director/Deputy Chief Scientific Officer of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and Head of Child Health Research at the Montreal Children’s Hospital (MCH) of the McGill University …
A new publication using CHILD Study data reports new findings on the relationship between changes in infants’ intestinal bacteria and allergic sensitization to milk, egg or peanut at 12 months of age. The paper “Infant gut microbiota and food sensitization: …