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On a cold March 2, 2004, Carla Prado arrived on the doorsteps of the University of Alberta. She left behind her native Brazil to fulfill a dream of studying abroad.  Today, she is an academic leader in body composition research who passionately shares the benefits of protein-rich diets in the treatment of cancer. She uses social media and classic movies like The Wizard of Oz to help explain the science behind by her research. 

Want to know more about Carla Prado?

Read Carla Prado’s profile at the University of Alberta

Visit the PradoLab website where you can download the cookbook called The High Protein Cookbook for Muscle Health During Cancer Treatment

Watch the video called “The importance of nutrition to prevent and treat low muscle mass”

Learn more about Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 2019 recipients, including Carla Prado

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(This podcast is available only in French) This podcast is about curious researchers, leading-edge science and the joys of discovery.

Simone Dalla Bella of Montréal’s International Laboratory for BRAin, Music and Sound Research asks “How can music help us in our daily tasks? And how can it slow down the deleterious effects of diseases such as Parkinson’s?”

Why is it that some people who are perfectly capable of hearing a beat still can’t dance? Researchers at the International Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound Research are trying to establish a correlation between music and cognitive skills such as speech, memory, attention span and a host of other executive functions. Their research findings could lead to major breakthroughs for people with cognitive impairments.

Want to know more about Simone Dalla Bella?

Psychology Department of the Faculty of Arts and Science at the Université de Montréal  (French only)

International Laboratory for BRAin, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS) 

Want to know more about Isabelle Peretz ?

Read “Musique et dopamine ”, an interview (French only) with the acclaimed researcher conducted by Acfas Magazine editor-in-chief, Johanne Lebel (March 11, 2021).

Listen to this beautiful rendition of Brahms’s Waltz Op. 39, No. 15  performed by The Canadian Brass (album Brahms on Brass).

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Leyla Soleymani is Canada’s Research Chair in Miniaturized Biomedical Devices. Her passion for the miniature world of nanotech and her commitment to collaboration have led her and her colleagues at McMaster University to inventions ranging from rapid tests that use pig saliva to disease detection to a plastic wrap that repels pathogens like rain drops off a lotus leaf.

Want to know more about  Leyla Soleymani?

Read her McMaster University bio 

Learn how rapid tests developed at McMaster are fighting infection in Canadian livestock

Find out how the next iteration of rapid tests will use chip readers and smartphones

RepelWrap works using a self-cleaning surface design microscopically “tuned” to shed everything that comes into contact with it, down to the scale of viruses and bacteria. 

Read how the design mimics the water-shedding properties of the lotus leaf

Read the Tech Briefs story about award winning RepelWrap



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For many, RNA vaccines seem to have appeared out of nowhere. The curious and the hesitant have wondered how a vaccine to fight COVID-19 could have been brought to market so quickly. In fact, messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines have been in development for over three decades. Here is the story about a persistent RNA vaccine pioneer and her socially connected admirer, University of British Columbia researcher, Anna Blakney. 

Want to know more about Anna Blakney? 

Read her University of British Columbia bio

Find her at the Michael Smith Laboratories

Check out her TikTok page

Curious about Team Halo?

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Looking for a more detailed account of Kati Karikó’s journey of persistence and discovery?

Listen to The New York Times' The Daily podcast.

CFI-funded researcher Pieter Cullis is considered the “Godfather of RNA delivery”

Read his University of British Columbia bio

Saanich News story on Anna, Pieter and TikTok

Curious to know more about the VinFuture Award?

Read the UBC press release: “Dr. Pieter Cullis and colleagues win VinFuture Foundation’s first global sci-tech award”

What is Poliomyelitis?

Connaught Labs, Polio Research & Conquering “The Crippler”

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Une chercheuse à l’Université de Montréal se concentre sur le sommeil des femmes.

Julie Carrier of the Université de Montréal has devoted her academic career to the fascinating world of sleep, using equipment she received from the CFI to monitor the slumber patterns and sleep disorders of her test subjects. When she began her studies more than 20 years ago, little was known about women and sleep. Now, an aging population and the effects of menopause on sleep make Carrier’s research more relevant than ever. In celebration of International Women’s Day, Carrier has pledged to focus her research more on women and sleep. She begins this podcast by telling us why women weren’t considered ideal candidates for these kinds of studies when she first started her research.

This podcast is part of an International Women’s Day podcast series called Groundbreakers.

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A researcher at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre explores ways to improve drugs

Stéphane Laporte, a researcher at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, became interested in pharmacological research when he noticed just how often drugs were associated with harmful side effects. In his lab at the Centre for Translational Biology, Laporte and his team are working to understand how pharmaceutical drugs work on the body in order to find ways to minimize unwanted side effects.

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One of the co-founders of LensVector talks about the origins of their molecular lens.

Tigran Galstian, professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Optics at Université Laval and co-founder of LensVector, explains the invention of a molecular lens that could, among other things, improve our cellphones.

Tigran Galstian received the David E. Mitchell Award of Distinction at the Ernest C. Manning Innovation Awards ceremony on October 22, 2014.

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A researcher at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre studies the link between genetics and cardiovascular disease.

In the 1980s, when Jacques Genest was starting out in the Faculty of Medicine, cardiovascular disease was the leading cause of death among Canadians. Dr. Genest and his team built on advances in molecular genetics to discover multiple genes that predispose people to early cardiovascular disease and tested many drugs to fight them. At the McConnell Centre for Innovative Medicine of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Dr. Genest continues to study familial hypercholesterolemia using genetic screening to identify other family members at risk of this asymptomatic disease and give them medical treatments to mitigate the danger.

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Ian Clark, professor of Earth sciences at the University of Ottawa, explains how radiocarbon dating using an accelerator mass spectrometer can help resolve significant issues surrounding contaminated environments.

This podcast is part of an in-depth report on the Advanced Research Complex.

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Constantin Polychronakos has devoted his career to studying the genetics of juvenile diabetes and treating children afflicted with the disease. As head of the Child Health and Human Development Program at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, he is working towards new interventions to replace the need for painful daily insulin injections.

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