Université de Montréal

More than two million hectares of Quebec forest reduced to ashes. Yellowknife evacuated. New York City under a thick blanket of orange smoke. Greek islands ravaged. More than a hundred fatalities on the Hawaiian island of Maui.The summer…

Located in low-lying areas saturated with water, the wetlands that make up 14 per cent of the Arctic emit vast quantities of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But scientists believe these emissions may be mitigated by the atmospheric…

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced today that 16 projects led by researchers at Université de Montréal and its affiliated research centres will receive funding in the latest John R. Evans Leaders Fund competition.The…

Université de Montréal has been granted 19 of the research chairs submitted as part of the April 2022 and October 2022 Canada Research Chair Program competitions. The chairs are a testament to the University’s research excellence in a…

In early June, 2023, 39 participants from 20 countries gathered at Mila – Quebec AI Institute in Montreal to attend the very first Summer School in Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Rights.During the week-long event,…

Mitochondrial DNA, with its relatively small number of base pairs (around 16,000 compared with 3 billion in nuclear DNA), was sequenced almost 45 years ago. “Once mitochondrial DNA was sequenced, it didn’t take long to go through it,”…

Université de Montréal announced today that it will significantly reduce its advertising on the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, both owned by the firm Meta. This decision comes at a time when Meta has announced its…

Have you or someone close to you just been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease? Well, chances the disease has been progressing quietly but insidiously for more than 10 years, new research shows.Carried out at the Université de Montréal and…

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced the creation of a new Scientific Advisory Board to advise UN leaders on breakthroughs in science and technology and how to harness the benefits of these advances and mitigate…

New research by the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit of the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), affiliated with University of Montreal, highlights the colossal challenges faced by people living with one or more rare…