September 28, 2020
AF-SCREEN international collaboration annual meeting
The fifth annual meeting of the AF-SCREEN international collaboration (and their first virtual one) featured a wide range of topics...
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September 18, 2020
CAHS Fellow 2020: PJ Devereaux
PJ Devereaux, a Senior Scientist and lead of the Perioperative and Surgery research team at PHRI, as well as the...
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September 17, 2020
Gender and ancestral origin on CVD development
Sonia Anand, Senior Scientist and lead of the population health research team at PHRI – also Director, Population Genomics, McMaster...
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September 17, 2020
CIHR Spring 2020 grants to PHRI
Four PHRI investigators have received a total of more than $5.5 million in the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)...
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September 15, 2020
RSC McLaughlin Medal to Salim Yusuf
Salim Yusuf, Executive Director of PHRI, is the recipient of the 2020 McLaughlin Medal from the Royal Society of Canada...
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September 11, 2020
Health Canada indication reflects REWIND findings
Health Canada has approved dulaglutide to reduce the risk of non-fatal stroke in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus who...
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September 10, 2020
Virtual care model: Digital Health Canada
Improving the post-operative patient experience using a new model of virtual care is the subject of a presentation about PHRI’s...
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September 8, 2020
Back to the PHRI office
Slowly and carefully, PHRI employees are making their way back into their work-home, the David Braley Cardiac Vascular Stroke Research...
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August 25, 2020
PHRI at ESC 2020
Talk about big online meetings! Up to 22,000 participants at once attended the free, virtual sessions at ESC Congress: The...
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August 25, 2020
Inaugural Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery
PHRI Scientist Richard Whitlock has been named the Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery, a new Tier 2 Chair, funded...
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August 13, 2020
Statistical analysis of COMPASS data
The academic proficiency of the biostatistical team at PHRI was again demonstrated with the recent publication of “Projecting effectiveness after ending...
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August 4, 2020
Who gets COVID and why (in different parts of the world)
PHRI is extending the reach and scope of COVID-19 research by tapping into its long-running, globe-spanning Prospective Urban and Rural...
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July 23, 2020
PVC-RAM study in Canadian Healthcare Technology
PHRI Scientist Michael McGillion, PHRI Senior Scientist PJ Devereaux and their study, PVC-RAM, are featured on the cover of Canadian...
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July 21, 2020
Coagulation biomarkers in COVID-19
A project called Assessing Coagulation Biomarkers to Accelerate the Discovery of Effective Therapies for COVID-19 (ACT COAG) has received funding...
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July 17, 2020
In Memoriam: Dr. Yannick LeManach
We have lost our colleague, Dr. Yannick LeManach (October 16, 1974 – July 13, 2020). He was a valued member...
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