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Outstanding areas of medical research at the University of Alberta include diabetes, obesity, virology, heart disease, motor control and rehabilitation, protein structure and function, and transplantation.
August 7, 2020
Cancer isn’t one disease with one cure, but researchers have made significant progress in understanding and treating it.
August 5, 2020
After successful lung transplants through ex-vivo organ preservation, UAlberta team is now working to develop a device to improve heart availability.
July 31, 2020
Edmonton project screens for infant hip dysplasia to prevent painful problems in adults.
July 30, 2020
New understanding leads researchers to try a new class of drugs against SARS-CoV-2 and HIV.
The University of Alberta was recently ranked sixth in the world in transplantation.
July 29, 2020
Passion to support today’s rural learners and encourage others to give propelled anesthesiologist Marlon Michel’s gift.
July 27, 2020
University of Alberta experts share their knowledge, hopes and fears about the chances of finding a way to inoculate the world against the deadly pandemic virus.
July 24, 2020
Learning how this magical, mysterious organ develops could have an enormous impact on human health.
July 23, 2020
Three stories show there are different paths to pursuit health research.
July 22, 2020
Improving ability to track mobile tumours in real time could lead to safer and possibly automated radiation therapy, radiologists say.