Discovery and innovation will be in the spotlight this Thursday night (November 14) as researchers from across Nova Scotia gather for the 22nd annual Discovery Awards.

Dalhousie graduate student Dina Rogers is no stranger to sharing her groundbreaking research. She won the people’s choice award at the 2024 3MT competition at Dalhousie and now has taken an even bigger prize in the 2024 Falling Walls Lab pitch competition: first place in the Science Breakthrough of the Year in the Emerging Talents category.

Dalhousie’s Dr. Christine Chambers and her colleagues at Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) are encouraging hospitals to adopt Canada’s first Pediatric Pain Management Standard, which gives institutions like Halifax’s IWK Health Centre additional tools and support to prevent and treat the chronic pain one in five Canadian children endure.

The field of exercise oncology has been growing rapidly, showing benefits including reduced disease and treatment-related side effects like depression, anxiety, muscle weakness and cancer-related pain, as well as a reduced risk of disease recurrence and cancer mortality.

With a goal to increase endoscopy capacity in Nigeria and entirely supported by Dalhousie’s Global Surgery Office, Dr. Knapp, and fellow Dalhousie surgical colleague, Dr. Richard Spence, along with ARGO partners, designed curriculum to be delivered over nine weeks leading up to the in-person training course.

Dr. Ron Stewart, the Cape Breton-born physician and Dalhousie professor emeritus whose leadership in reshaping Nova Scotia's system of emergency medicine saved many lives, died Monday (Oct. 21) at age 82.

Dr. Stephen Miller was appointed senior associate dean, medical education, assumed the role on July 15, 2024, after four years as associate dean, continuing professional development and medical education (CPDME), and six years as assistant dean for the Skilled Clinician Program.

Dr. Friedman is investigating how factors as varied as stress, traumatic injuries, infections, high blood pressure or strokes can penetrate the blood brain barrier, allowing proteins to seep in.

Three Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine students took the top prizes at this year’s Falling Walls Lab competition, which showcases innovative solutions to the world’s pressing problems.

For the first time, an Indigenous medical student and resident found themselves working side-by-side with an Indigenous staff physician at the Wije’winen and Sipekne’katik Health Centres.