Mac researchers developing therapies for diabetes Current projects aim to explore treatments and test medicines to prevent metabolic disease
Photo by Catherine Goce By: Abirami Sudharshan In October 2018, the McMaster faculty of health sciences launched the “Centre for Metabolism, Obesity and Diabetes Research,” an initiative ten years in the making. Since then, the centre has been working to engineer novel clinical applications in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of adult and juvenile metabolic disease. According to the agenda from the Oct. 18 McMaster board of...
McMaster researchers tackling root causes of domestic violence The federal government is asking professors to evaluate the first Triple P program in Canada
Photo by Kyle West By: Areej Ali The Trudeau government has granted over $3.4 million to McMaster researchers to fund a study that aims to identify and combat systemic causes of domestic violence. Andrea Gonzalez, an assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences at McMaster, is currently overseeing the “Triple P” program, which stands for the positive parenting program. Triple P is a public health parenting...
Renovations and longer hours likely coming to HSL The SRA health sciences caucus is working with the library administration to extend Saturday hours and replace bookshelves with study spaces
Photos by Kyle West McMaster students may see changes in the Health Sciences Library study space and operational hours as soon as this year. Student Representative Assembly health sciences representatives Devin Roshan and Tushar Tejpal are working closely with HSL director Jennifer McKinnell to redistribute Sunday hours to Saturday and replace bookshelves with more cubicles and desks. The initiative is part of the SRA health sciences...
McMaster alumnus makes waves with new protein research The first-of-its-kind study investigates the role that protein PRY-1 plays in lipid metabolism
Photo C/O Grace Gkuang By: Saad Ahmed A recent publication co-authored by a McMaster alumnus links a major biological pathway to fat, stress, and aging. The study was conducted by Ayush Ranawade, a PhD alumnus from the Gupta Lab at McMaster University who is currently pursuing postdoctoral studies at Harvard University, and Avijit Mallick, a University of Melbourne graduate and current PhD student in the Gupta Lab, under the...
EFRT pushing for new CPR training device Q-CPR is slated to improve training for first responders on campus
Photo by Madeline Neumann By Balsam Fasih Changing standards of care are pushing the McMaster Students’ Union Emergency First Response Team to adopt Quality CPR, a training device that gives trainees feedback on the quality of their chest compressions. While it is not part of traditional CPR training courses, Q-CPR is quickly becoming part of changing standards of care for cardiac arrest patients, now being used by Hamilton’s...
Future plans for the MUMC The outdated nature of the building is largely motivating the potential relocation
Photos by Catherine Goce By Elliot Fung The agenda from the McMaster Board of Governors meeting in April 2018 reveals that the Hamilton Health Sciences board has approved a plan to stop operating at its current facility within the next ten years. As part of a 20-year redevelopment plan, HHS plans to relocate the Children’s and Women’s hospital away from the McMaster University Medical Centre to an expansion of Hamilton General...
