News

SELECTED ANNOUNCEMENTS:

February 2022  | Congratulations to team member Sarai Mola for defending her PhD Thesis in Bioinformatics

November 2021  | Fighting gut infections contributes to preventing Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis

July 2021  | CIHR awards $691K to identify and functionally validate IBD genes and variants impacting intestinal epithelial barrier integrity

July 2021  | Genome Québec awards $199K to develop an inexpensive blood-based diagnostic test for Crohn’s Disease

January 2019  | Pfizer Canada Inc. awards  $151K for a prospective study of immune cell responsiveness to understand drug response in UC patients treated with tofacitinib

September 2018  | NIH awards $600K USD to understand how a loss of epigenetic reader SP140 contributes to IBD

September 2018  | The CIHR Human Immunology Initiative awards $1.5M to The Canadian Autoimmunity Standardization Core (CAN-ASC)

June 2017  | Scientists zoom in on genetic culprits of IBD

March 2016  | Canada Foundation for Innovation awards $755,040 to create a platform in support of cellular and genomic medicine applications

March 2016  | CIHR awards $12.5 M for Patient Oriented Research in IBD and IBS

May 2014  | CIHR awards $2.5M to collaborative group to study the common role of LRRK2  Parkinson's disease, Crohn's disease, and leprosy

April 2013  | NIDDK Awards over $2M for defining the causality & biologic impact of genes within ulcerative colitis loci

April 2013  | Genome Canada and partners award $10M in support of the IBD Genomic Medicine Consortium (iGenoMed)

June 2010  | Canada Foundation for Innovation awards $487,947 to create Infrastructure in support of an integrative biology platform

October 2012  | Montreal-led research group awarded $1.8M from U.S. NIH

August 2011  |  Multiple sclerosis research doubles numbers of associated genes

February 2011  |  Research links 29 genome regions with common form of IBD

February 2010  |  Research project on IBD to receive more than $2.3M from CIHR

February 2010  |  New hope for patients with lactic acidosis

October 2009  |  Two major projects are chosen by Pfizer-FRSQ Innovation Fund

January 2009  | MHI researchers contribute to identify new genetic markers for UC

August 2008  | Researchers discover new gene for Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis

June 2008  |  Canadian researchers contribute to major Crohn's disease study

January 2008  | International Consortium find major genes for Lupus in women

April 2007  | Genome-wide study identifies major genes for Crohn's disease

January 2007  |  Rioux and his team make list for Top Ten Discoveries of 2006

October 2006  |  Scientists find gene target that may protect against IBD

September 2006  | International team analyzes genetic variation in key immune region