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📣 Big news! We closed an oversubscribed $8M Series A to transform fruit flies into sustainable bioreactors for the $4T syn-bio industry 🪰 See how we're tackling the undruggable and unlocking the AI biorevolution in the video below 👇 Read more 👉 bit.ly/4naNe0C

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Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Flavio Vieira and Dr. Carla Prado (UAlberta Faculty of ALES ) co-led a study that shows malnutrition could be a factor that lowers quality of life for people with larger bodies, especially those with osteoarthritis. Read the story: bit.ly/3GjrP4r

Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Flavio Vieira and Dr. Carla Prado (<a href="/UofAALES/">UAlberta Faculty of ALES</a> ) co-led a study that shows malnutrition could be a factor that lowers quality of life for people with larger bodies, especially those with osteoarthritis.

Read the story: bit.ly/3GjrP4r
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U of A researcher Grant Bruno is working with First Nations communities, including his own, to reframe how we understand autism. As a member of the Samson Cree Nation and Canada’s first First Nations faculty member in pediatrics, he is working to break down colonial narratives

U of A researcher Grant Bruno is working with First Nations communities, including his own, to reframe how we understand autism.

As a member of the Samson Cree Nation and Canada’s first First Nations faculty member in pediatrics, he is working to break down colonial narratives
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📣 Attention early career researchers (ECRs)! The application deadline for the CIHR Institute of Cancer Research ECR Workshop has been extended to July 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET. Apply now: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/53480.html?h…

📣 Attention early career researchers (ECRs)! The application deadline for the CIHR Institute of Cancer Research ECR Workshop has been extended to July 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET. 

Apply now: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/53480.html?h…
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Are you living with a chronic illness or disability? Would you be willing to meet with medical students to help them understand your daily experience? Click here to see if you'd make a great patient-mentor candidate: bit.ly/3TPeZOt Feel free to share!

Are you living with a chronic illness or disability?

Would you be willing to meet with medical students to help them understand your daily experience?

Click here to see if you'd make a great patient-mentor candidate: bit.ly/3TPeZOt

Feel free to share!
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Join the Dept of Psychiatry and Kickstand Edmonton for the OASIS Project, an interactive educational experience designed to help break through the stigma of substance use disorders. Learn more and register: bit.ly/44lia5o

Join the Dept of Psychiatry and Kickstand Edmonton for the OASIS Project, an interactive educational experience designed to help break through the stigma of substance use disorders.

Learn more and register: bit.ly/44lia5o
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Dr. Brittany Carr (ophthalmology & visual science) is developing better models that could help treat or prevent age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness. BrightFocus Foundation Read the story via brightfocus.org: bit.ly/4kfIDaK

Dr. Brittany Carr (ophthalmology &amp; visual science) is developing better models that could help treat or prevent age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness. <a href="/_BrightFocus/">BrightFocus Foundation</a>

Read the story via brightfocus.org: bit.ly/4kfIDaK
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Dr. Grant Bruno (pediatrics) is featured as one of Canada’s next generation of researchers making breakthroughs in health and medicine by the Globe and Mail. Read the full story: tgam.ca/45Ixiwa

Dr. Grant Bruno (pediatrics) is featured as one of Canada’s next generation of researchers making breakthroughs in health and medicine by the Globe and Mail.

Read the full story: tgam.ca/45Ixiwa
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The U of A has introduced its first Data Sovereignty Declaration and Caretaking Directives. Led by Florence Glanfield, vice-provost of Indigenous programming and research, and the Supporting Indigenous Language Revitalization (SILR) team, the new guidelines ensure that research

The U of A has introduced its first Data Sovereignty Declaration and Caretaking Directives.

Led by Florence Glanfield, vice-provost of Indigenous programming and research, and the Supporting Indigenous Language Revitalization (SILR) team, the new guidelines ensure that research
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When standard genetic tests failed, the Translational Genomics Hub (TGH) stepped in to solve a rare, complex case. Read more about the TGH’s @stollerykids-supported research: ar.wchri.org/unlocking-gene… #WCHRIAR2025

When standard genetic tests failed, the Translational Genomics Hub (TGH) stepped in to solve a rare, complex case.

Read more about the TGH’s @stollerykids-supported research:
ar.wchri.org/unlocking-gene…
#WCHRIAR2025
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Congratulations to FoMD graduate Dr. Matt Anderson-Baron (’19 PhD in cell biology) and his wife, Jalene Anderson-Baron (’12 BA, ’16 MA UAlbertaScience), on an impressive funding round for their startup Future Fields! Read their release: bit.ly/3I7XVki

Congratulations to FoMD graduate Dr. Matt Anderson-Baron (’19 PhD in cell biology) and his wife, Jalene Anderson-Baron (’12 BA, ’16 MA <a href="/ualbertaScience/">UAlbertaScience</a>), on an impressive funding round for their startup <a href="/futurefieldsHQ/">Future Fields</a>!

Read their release:  bit.ly/3I7XVki
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From immunology lectures to hands-on lab work, Sarah is helping drive MS research forward. Step inside the Brain Power Lab at the U of A. UAlberta Med & Dent

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A new radiotracer developed at the U of A could make breast cancer imaging faster and more precise. Soon to begin clinical trials in Europe, the fructose-based PET tracer targets a protein found only in breast cancer cells, providing clearer images within minutes and the

A new radiotracer developed at the U of A could make breast cancer imaging faster and more precise. 

Soon to begin clinical trials in Europe, the fructose-based PET tracer targets a protein found only in breast cancer cells, providing clearer images within minutes and the
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A new radiotracer developed at the U of A is aiming to make breast cancer detection faster and more accurate. The compound targets a specific protein found in cancer cells, producing clearer images in just 15 minutes. Read the story: bit.ly/44tshVV

A new radiotracer developed at the U of A is aiming to make breast cancer detection faster and more accurate.

The compound targets a specific protein found in cancer cells, producing clearer images in just 15 minutes.

Read the story: bit.ly/44tshVV
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Human trafficking remains a persistent global issue. Healthcare professionals are in a key position to identify and respond to victims and survivors, many of whom interact with the health system without being recognized. Attend and learn how you can help! shorturl.at/nAXGD

Human trafficking remains a persistent global issue. Healthcare professionals are in a key position to identify and respond to victims and survivors, many of whom interact with the health system without being recognized. Attend and learn how you can help! shorturl.at/nAXGD
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✨ Elevate Your Implementation Study with Expert Feedback ✨ Are you working on an implementation study in research, policy, programming, or practice? Register for a 2-day workshop with Implementation science leaders. 🔗 ualberta.ca/en/medicine/pr… UAlberta Med & Dent UAlberta Research & Innovation

✨ Elevate Your Implementation Study with Expert Feedback ✨ 

Are you working on an implementation study in research, policy, programming, or practice? 
Register for a 2-day workshop with Implementation science leaders.
🔗 ualberta.ca/en/medicine/pr…
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A new radiotracer could make breast cancer detection quicker and more accurate, according to WCHRI members Frederick West and Frank Wuest. They are part of a U of A team testing a new PET scan molecule in European clinical trials. Read more: ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/…

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UAlberta Crit Care state of the art review of anaesthetic management of patients with valvular lesions (eg aortic stenosis) and septic shock by CCM fellow Dr. Sunny Fong at morning rounds today UAlberta Med & Dent

<a href="/UAlberta_ICU/">UAlberta Crit Care</a> state of the art review of anaesthetic management of patients with valvular lesions (eg aortic stenosis) and septic shock by CCM fellow Dr. Sunny Fong at morning rounds today <a href="/UAlberta_FoMD/">UAlberta Med & Dent</a>