Research

Six University of Ottawa professors have been appointed University research chairs, in recognition of their solid teaching record and outstanding accomplishments in their fields.The research chairs will focus on pressing issues in areas as diverse as the deformation of the earth’s crust, health care delivery reform, metabolic and genetic factors causing obesity and diabetes, and health care for rare childhood diseases.

One in nine Canadian women is expected to develop breast cancer throughout her lifetime, and one in 30 will die from it. Preventing breast cancer at the cellular level however, may be a possibility, after research by Dr. Christine Pratt at the University of Ottawa uncovered why breast cells with the BRCA1 gene mutation are at high risk for evolving into tumours.

The University of Ottawa is making a $1.7 million dollar contribution to the Royal’s Brain Imaging Centre. Researchers at the University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute (uOBMRI) will now be able to use cutting-edge technology to advance learning and discovery in the field of brain research and psychology using a new PET-fMRI machine, the first of its kind in Canada solely dedicated to mental health research and neuroscience.