Université de Montréal

In a remote region of northern Guatemala near the border with Belize, a multidisciplinary international team of archaeologists and students led by Professor Christina Halperin of Université de Montréal is busy unravelling the mysteries…

In a new study, the team led by Étienne Gagnon, Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology at the Université de Montréal and Director of IRIC's Cancer Immunobiology Research Unit, has developed a…

Over the past 30 years, the success rate of pediatric cancer treatments has improved dramatically. It is now above 80 per cent – and even higher for some cancers. While the reduction in mortality is heartening, there’s a downside: about…

Every year, Université de Montréal awards honorary doctorates to distinguished individuals whose outstanding achievements have earned them esteem at home and abroad. It is the university’s highest distinction. This year, the recipients…

In 2014, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) began construction of the world’s largest telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), in Chile’s Atacama Desert, 3,000 metres above sea level. The giant eye on the sky promises to…

Work by the team of Dr. Frédéric Charron, Director of the Molecular Biology of Neuronal Development Research Unit at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) and Research Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Université…

A new study led by Dr. Nadia Roumeliotis, clinician-researcher at CHU Sainte-Justine and professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Université de Montréal, shows that the public health measures imposed in Canada during the COVID-19…

When the exoplanet LHS 1140 b was first discovered, astronomers speculated that it might be a mini-Neptune: an essentially gaseous planet, but very small in size compared to Neptune. But after analyzing data from the James Webb Space…

For the first time, a team co-led by CHU Sainte-Justine researcher and professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Université de Montréal, Alexey Pshezhetsky has succeeded in resolving the unique structure of the HGSNAT enzyme, a deficiency…

During his 10 years at the helm of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC), Michel Bouvier, a professor in UdeM’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, has helped shepherd several molecules from the basic…