One in eight Canadian women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime. Every day, promising new research is adding to our understanding of this disease, leading to better diagnosis and treatments. So, when Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute (BHCRI) scientific director Dr. Gerry Johnston and his wife Judy lost their only daughter Jen to advanced breast cancer last year, they could think of no better way to honour Jen’s legacy than by asking family and friends to donate to BHCRI.

It’s a special time of year at Dalhousie—convocation. It symbolizes both a beginning and an end. A celebration of one’s time as a student, and a time to acknowledge the great potential to demonstrate the skills acquired during training. It’s a time to say goodbye to years as an undergraduate student and look ahead to exciting new opportunities.

Half a million Canadians are living with dementia and one in five Canadians has cared for someone with dementia. Dementia is an umbrella term for many conditions causing “loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life.”

A new partnership between Dalhousie Medical School and Cape Breton University (CBU) aims to create solutions to alleviate family physician shortages in rural Nova Scotia.

Medical Research Graduate Program PhD student Jasmine Mah was the winner of the finals of Dalhousie's 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. 3MT challenges research-based master’s and doctoral students to distill their research into three-minute chunks for a non-specialist audience, with a single PowerPoint slide permitted as a visual aid.

As people begin to contemplate the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dalhousie researchers are investigating its broader impact on Canadians, including equity-deserving communities, women who experienced increased violence, and children with complex health needs.

Dal receives more than $3.7 million for equipment and infrastructure

A Dalhousie researcher is poised to lead a cancer treatment revolution through global partnerships.

From trying to discover the mystery of what makes our hearts tick to investigating whether social media is stoking systemic racism in Canada’s gentrifying cities, Dalhousie researchers are being empowered to take big swings for the benefit of society.

The IMPART team, headquartered at Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, will represent Dalhousie University in the Health Research Training Platforms (HRTP) program, an innovative, pan-national initiative that will embed early career researchers and trainees in collaborative health research teams.