Health & Medicine

Pioneering work being carried out in a cave in New Mexico by researchers at McMaster is changing the understanding of how antibiotic resistance may have emerged and how doctors can combat it in the future.

New genetic research suggests that smallpox, a pathogen that has caused millions of deaths worldwide, may not be an ancient disease but a much more modern killer.

The genomic data is important, say researchers, because it serves as a key reference point for when and where the parasite existed in humans, and provides more information about the evolution of human disease.

McMaster has been awarded six new Canada Research Chairs and three renewals, bringing a total of $8.9M in new funding from a federal program aimed at retaining and attracting research leaders.

The key to overcoming depression might be in re-learning what it feels like to not be depressed.

Dr. John Kelton has received a Lifelong Achievement Award from the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine's Division of Geriatric Medicine and the Regional Geriatric Program Central.

The Rheinstadter Lab is using synthetic human-like tissue created in a petri dish to help identify how and why drugs work differently in different people, an innovation that could lead to significant advances in personalized medicine.

McMaster dedicated a year to Big Ideas, Better Cities, an ambitious series of public events connecting McMaster's researchers to communities in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and the world.

This year's Innovation Showcase focused on the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity exhibited by students, graduate students, post doctoral fellows and researchers from across campus.

Autism researcher Margaret Clarke and renowned economist Junsen Zhang will be presented with Distinguished Alumni Awards at this year's Fall Convocation Ceremonies.

Malcolm Sears, a professor of medicine at McMaster and world-renowned for his influential research on asthma, has received the 2016 J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine.

Scientists at McMaster's Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute have discovered genetic alterations in a gene in individuals with autism spectrum disorders.