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