Shake it off no longer: the future of energy absorbers

12 Jan 2024

With the support of the McGill Innovation Fund, a team of McGill researchers are seeking to develop and commercialize a multistate lightweight shock absorbing technology that could transform safety...

Can longer cell life lead to shorter drug discovery?

8 Dec 2023

We should all be thankful for the advances of modern medicine, particularly over the last decades. Cancer, for example, once considered a death sentence, is steadily being beaten back. Since 1991...

Better coating for better implants

17 Nov 2023

Ever since the first pacemaker was implanted into a human body back in 1958, the use of medical devices has grown to the point where it is now a routine affair. In Canada, there were over 700,000...

Goodbye MRI? Cancer monitoring in the palm of your hand

3 Nov 2023

The acronym MRI is probably one of the most commonly quoted medical terms around. Magnetic Resonance Imaging was a revolution in healthcare when it first made its commercial appearance in 1980,...

Prescription for cleaner water? Add fiber

6 Oct 2023

Water: The wondrous tasteless and colorless liquid without which, all life on this planet would not exist. That miraculous conjoining of two hydrogen molecules and one oxygen molecule – without a...

MIF launches 3rd edition, offers new AMR award

19 Sep 2023

The McGill Innovation Fund (MIF) is returning for a third edition, offering the same menu of substantial funding and business support which have made the program a success since its inception. The...

Harnessing nature’s secret(e) weapon: a bio-inspired bandage 

30 Aug 2023

Next time you get a cut or scrape with significant bleeding, it is quite unlikely you would want to apply a mollusk to the wound. But before you dismiss such a treatment, you might want to check...

McGill to team up with BXVentures to create cleantech spinoffs

Published: 18 April 2023

McGill University has entered into an agreement with BXVentures to facilitate and accelerate the commercialization of select cleantech projects that originate in McGill labs....

Cleantech in the spotlight for 2nd edition of MIF

20 Jan 2023

They came. They saw. They pitched. And after the dust had settled and the judges deliberated, the winners for the second edition of the McGill Innovation Fund (MIF) were chosen. This year, the MIF...

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