Acquiring the right skills to treat kids who've suffered a traumatic injury can be expensive and time-consuming, but a new virtual reality tool developed at McGill University in Montreal aims to reduce those costs and hopefully save more lives.

Mark Your Calendars: CHHD Annual Research Day Coming in May 10th 2024! For more information, registration, and abstract submission, please visit the website.

A rare genetic mutation could explain why indigenous children have greatly increased rates of respiratory infections and chronic lung disease.

EndoCARES offers state-of-the-art clinical care and will enhance basic, epidemiological and clinical research in endometriosis

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Marissa Fazio’s M.Sc. project aims to prevent health-care-associated infections in the neonatal intensive care unit

A clearer understanding of how brain tumours originate during brain development is paving the way for improved therapies against pediatric high-grade gliomas, the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in children and young adults.

Dominique Geoffrion, PhD, a medical student at McGill University (MDCM candidate, class of 2023) who recently completed her doctorate in ophthalmology as a research trainee in the Child Health and Human Development Program at the Research Institute of the MUHC, makes it to the 2022 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award winners list, and we are here for it!!!

Togas Tulandi, MD, Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, and a CHHD Associate Investigator at the RI-MUHC, is the 2022 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Society for the Advancement of Gynecologic Excellence (CanSAGE).

This year, we are very lucky and privileged to have the ability to participate in the research day through an in-person event.

Dr. Patricia Fontela’s collaboration with Drs. Dominique Piquette (Sunnybrook, Toronto) and Denise Jaworsky (UBC) was awarded $2.4 million from the CIHR Health Research Training Platform for a program called the Life-Threatening Illness National Group (LifTING) Research Training Platform.

A diverse group of young research trainees present their summer projects

Dr. Zoua Vang, an associate member of the CHHD program, received a grant on race, gender, and diversity studies. The Government of Canada announced the awarded projects on their website (linked).

Nature Communications study has implications for treatment of patients and genetic counselling.

Nature Communications study has implications for treatment of patients and genetic counselling.

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A novel cancer predisposition screening tool shows promise in helping doctors better predict which childhood cancer survivors may be at risk of developing future cancers.

In this article published in La Presse, Dr. Brett Burstein, a CHHD Junior Scientist, raises awareness to the importance of getting medical evaluation in case of fever among young infants during the Public Health Restriction in place due to the Covid-19 Pandemic as shown in his latest publication in JAMA Network Open.

Next-generation gene sequencing may provide answers for some women dealing with recurrent pregnancy loss and prevent further miscarriages

Dr. Sam Daniel, a CHHD senior scientist, is also a Pediatric Otolaryngologist and Director of the Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery department at the Montreal Children's Hospital of the MUHC. In this article published in La Presse, Dr. Daniel and his colleagues explain how they were able to allow Hannah, a little girl of 1 year old, to breathe correctly and eventually to speak by removing a nerve and muscle unit from the baby's small neck and grafting it onto the muscle of their vocal cords.