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Eleven Memorial University teams secure more than $1M for social sciences and humanities research
From artificial intelligence to social enterprises and from disinformation to municipal wastewater challenges, Memorial University researchers are helping find answers to complex social issues for people and communities here at home and around the world.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council recently announced results of several of its research grant programs, with 11 Memorial researchers securing $1,081,464 to support diverse projects based in the faculties of Business Administration, Humanities and Social Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Science, as well as the School of Science and the Environment at Grenfell Campus.
Summertime learning: Memorial hosts gender and health summit
A week-long training program at Memorial University proved to be a launchpad for future generations of scientists to build critical health-related research capacity.
Memorial hosted this year’s Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Gender and Health Summer Institute. The theme was benchside breakthroughs to community champions: innovation and implementation of sex and gender+ science.
A private donation is empowering MS researchers to explore which exercises benefit patients -- and why
A major private donation is funding new multiple sclerosis (MS) research at Memorial University.
The Branch Out Neurological Foundation has awarded $723,820 through the Ralph M. Barford Foundation to support research led by Dr. Craig Moore and the late Dr. Michelle Ploughman in the Faculty of Medicine.
Cancer researcher earns national and provincial recognition for community impact and innovation
A professor in the Faculty of Medicine is being recognized at both the national and provincial levels for her contributions to cancer research, public engagement, patient partnerships and community advocacy.
This summer Dr. Sevtap Savas received the 2026 Innovation Award from the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology (CAPO) and one of Newfoundland and Labrador’s 2026 Seniors of Distinction Awards.
A Memorial-led partnership has resulted in a dedicated seafarers' welfare station, with a CIHR grant in tow
Putting humans at the centre of the blue economy.
That’s the goal of a long-standing relationship between Memorial’s Faculty of Medicine and the Marine Institute with the national Mission to Seafarers organization and its new Newfoundland and Labrador station — and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Catalyst Grant is going a long way in supporting that goal.
Principal investigator Dr. Desai Shan, a maritime health and safety expert and an assistant professor of occupational health and safety in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial, is the project’s principal investigator.
Memorial University researchers receive $9.4 million in federal funding
Forty researchers at Memorial, including Drs. Anthony Incognito, Joseph Olayemi Olajide and Qutuba Karwi in the Faculty of Medicine, are receiving support.
The funding comes from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) highly competitive research grant programs.
In total, Memorial researchers have secured $9,436,718 in funding. Teams are based in the faculties of Medicine, Science and Engineering and Applied Science, as well as the Marine Institute.
Atlantic Canadian collaboration: Memorial MD student publishes rare skin disease research
In 2017, Cynthia McNeil began noticing random rashes on her arms.
Concerned, she made an appointment with her family doctor in Fort McMurray, Alta., who sent her off for tests.
Her bloodwork showed chronically high white blood cell counts, so she was referred to a hematologist for more tests.