For Peter Jones, a grocery store can feel like a giant medicine cabinet. The University of Manitoba professor is a leading expert on functional foods, which are those ordinary items on our shopping list that have extraordinary powers when it comes to preventing chronic disease.
These foods have benefits above and beyond simply providing basic nutrients. […]

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Their aim is to develop an Indigenous-based social work, find new ways to diagnose and treat life-threatening disorders, extend the lives of people with brain tumours, and improve the Canadian economy by helping entrepreneurs become more successful.
They have big research goals and now they have a combined $2 million to help make them reality.
Three new […]

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The Canada Research Chair (CRC) program today announced an investment of $ 7.3 million in funding towards research being done at the University of Manitoba. There is one new CRC, one whose CRC was advanced, and eight who had their chairs renewed.
Jason Treberg, the new Canada Research Chair in Metabolism and Environmental Dynamics says he […]

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The federal government has renewed major funding for two University of Manitoba professors, both of them pioneers in their field.
Physics and astronomy professor Tapash Chakraborty, whose research involves the miniaturization of electronics, and pathology professor Marc Del Bigio, who investigates brain disorders, have been renewed as Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs (CRCs).
The designation, which is […]

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A University of Manitoba and St. Boniface Hospital Research scientist is set to begin an appointment that will have him contributing to biomedical research efforts in North America in an even greater way.

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As we get older, our ability to process spatial information declines. Thanks to new government funding, researcher Debbie Kelly is investigating what aging does to our brains, specifically how it affects the way we navigate our way around.

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Approximately 2,000 Manitobans are living with kidney disease today. Of those, many are waiting for kidney transplants and more than half depend on dialysis machines - giving Manitoba the distinction of the highest per capita rate of dialysis patients of any province in Canada. But now there is fresh hope for sufferers of kidney disease […]

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