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Medicine researcher receives national recognition for advancing understanding of heart failure
The Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CSPT) has presented Dr. Qutuba Karwi with its 2026 Junior Investigator Award.
The award is presented to a CSPT member for significant contributions to the advancement and extension of knowledge in the field of basic and clinical pharmacology.
The recognition comes as new findings from Dr. Karwi’s laboratory suggest a critical cellular message disrupted in a common form of heart failure could be restored pharmacologically, leading to improving how those hearts work.
PhD graduate honours 'life-changing' opportunities at Memorial with educational foundation for underprivileged children
When clinical epidemiology PhD fall graduate Aswathy Geetha Manukumar arrived at Memorial University in 2022, she had no research experience to speak of.
That was just one more obstacle in a long line of obstacles she surmounted on her academic journey, which culminates this week during convocation ceremonies at the St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre.
As a neuroscience graduate student, Shrabontee Deepanwita had hit her stride. Then illness struck
I still have memories of the wind that touched my face when I first arrived in St. John’s, N.L.
It was sharp and unfamiliar. Nothing like home.
Because I was an international student, I quickly learned that being successful is not about the grades.
Success is all about learning how to take one’s rightful place in unfamiliar places.
More than $1 million in federal funding for next-generation scientific infrastructure
Through its John R. Evans Leaders Fund, the Canada Foundation for Innovation recently announced a total investment of $1,136,776 in support of six projects and the multidisciplinary teams conducting the research.
The investment supports projects involving research teams in the faculties of Science, Engineering and Applied Science, and Medicine, and the School of Science and the Environment, Grenfell Campus.