St. Boniface Hospital Research
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DONATE TODAY! In the six months before the COVID-19 pandemic reached our province, the RBC Youth BIOlab Jeunesse welcomed more than 3,000 Manitoba students from... grades 4 to 12 to St. Boniface Hospital’s Albrechtsen Research Centre. Although we’ve paused school visits to the Youth BIOlab due to the pandemic, its programming carries on! This #GivingTuesdayCA you can give more of Manitoba's kids - especially those in rural, Northern, and remote locations - the chance to experience Youth BIOlab programming from their homes or classrooms. By joining thousands of others choosing to do good today, you will help the Youth BIOlab deliver hands on remote learning opportunities to young people through its original series of educational videos called Healthy Curiosity. Will you join the movement and help us raise $10,000 today to fund 10 remote-learning kits and production of more Healthy Curiosity videos? By donating now, you will be helping kids across the province to deepen their understanding of health, the nature of science, scientific inquiry, and design. Make a gift: STBHF.CA/donate #GivingTuesdayCa #STBHF

Dr. Benedict Albensi, Principal Investigator, Synaptic Plasticity and Cellular Memory Dysfunction Lab, Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders, presented a 25-minute seminar, entitled, Roles for Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease at the 11th annual World Targeting Mitochondrial Congress via a virtual session.

The Youth BIOlab Jeunesse will be broadcasting live on YouTube this Thursday, Nov 5 at 1PM CST with their "Meet-a-Scientist" live-stream series. Dr. Grant Pierce will be the first to appear in the new series. https://buff.ly/3jVMjzc

Congratulations to Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum, who was elected as this year’s Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) Research Achievement Award recipient!

Congratulations to Dr. Benedict Albensi who was recently appointed as Vice-Chair to the Nutrition, Metabolism, and Dementia professional interest area (PIA) for the International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART)/Alzheimer’s Assoc. USA.

Dr. Jiuyong Xie has been named this year’s recipient of the Richard Hoeschen Memorial Award. The award is presented by the Manitoba Medical Service Foundation and St. Boniface Hospital Research.

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Bradley Feltham who recently won the Doctoral Award For Indigenous Students, and the Prairie Indigenous Knowledge Exchange Network (PIKE-Net) Ph.D. Graduate Fellowship, U of M.

Congratulations to Mihir Parikh, who took home The E. L. Drewry Memorial Award and the St. Boniface Hospital Foundation Inc. Award at the recent Canadian Student Health Research Forum!

Congratulations to Dr. Sanjiv Dhingra, elected as Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) conferred by the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS). Fellowship recognizes and awards premium professional members for excellence, innovative and sustained contributions in the areas of scholarship, practice and/or education, and volunteer service within the AHA/ASA.

Dr. Michael Czubryt took part as a content expert on a new podcast by the American Journal of Physiology Heart and Circulatory Physiology. You can listen online @ https://buff.ly/3beZhoS, on the AJP-Heart and Circ journal website (https://buff.ly/2YOJ2dh), on iTunes and Spotify

Congratulations to Dr. Inna Rabinovich-Nikitin, post-doctoral fellow with the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences here at the St. Boniface Albrechtsen Research Centre, who was selected as the 2020 Paul Dudley White International Scholar for an abstract submitted to the American Heart Association’s Hypertension 2020 Scientific Sessions.

N95 masks can be re-sterilized, but only once. St. Boniface research study used real-life conditions to test mask performance. https://bit.ly/3fAckBH

Research Matters and we’ve got the numbers showing that!

Today at 1 PM, Dr. Benedict Albensi will be interviewed Lori La Bey from the Alzheimer's Speaks radio show in St. Paul, MN. You can listen in by visiting https://buff.ly/3g7PRwV

The International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) recently released Nutrition and Cardiovascular Health, a book showcasing 15 articles on the subject, co-edited by Dr. Heather Blewett and Dr. Pram Tappia.

Drs. Tappia, Ramjiawan and Dhalla have edited their first in a planned trilogy on biochemistry advances!

Congratulations to Dr. Bram Ramjiawan and Dr. Pram Tappia, for their work which was featured on the August 2019 cover of Cancers!

Dr. Ross Feldman and Dr. Thomas Hack were recently featured in the current edition of Research Life, published by the University of Manitoba. Feldman and Hack were among eight researchers recognized for their excellence, expertise, service and leadership in the fields of engineering, health and medicine, arts, and the humanities.

Drs. Carla Taylor and Peter Zahradka have found after more than 10 years of study that eating the crop can control blood sugar levels. If it works out as planned, buckwheat will soon be promoted with a health claim saying it reduces glucose levels and can be used to manage diabetes.