Research & Technology

Approximately one in eight cisgender women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their life.  In 2020 alone, over 2 million were diagnosed with breast cancer and 685,000 died from the disease....

With Canadian crops becoming more valuable and serving an expanding market, Canada has become one of the world’s largest pea producers, with production estimated at 4.6 million tonnes in 2020 alone.  In 2021, French company...

Biodiversity — the variation of life on earth at all its levels — is fundamental to a healthy ecosystem and continued life on our planet.   However, climate change has posed a threat to biodiversity, leading...

Research Manitoba’s New Investigator Operating Grant Competition — which funds the supplies and equipment needed for new investigators in Manitoba to establish independent research programs — has recently announced its 2022 recipients. Among them...

Monkeypox, first identified in non-human primates in 1958, has become a global outbreak with over 50,000 cases worldwide. On Aug. 19, Manitoba Deputy Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Jazz Atwal confirmed Manitoba’s first...

A University of Manitoba research project seeking to provide data on how COVID-19 and related conditions have affected children has received over $433,000 in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).   The...

Chris Pascoe, an assistant professor in the Max Rady college of medicine, has been awarded funding from the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) to support his research into investigating the causal link between...