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The beginning of the end for HIV

The beginning of the end for HIV

Western University’s Eric Arts, PhD, is leading the only North American site collaborating with the European AIDS Vaccine Initiative (EAVI2020) to accelerate the development of an HIV vaccine. Arts and his team of researchers at Western’s Schulich School of Medicine...

Innovation meets commercialization in new competition

Innovation meets commercialization in new competition

Medically inducing hypothermia in a patient has been shown to prevent further brain injury following stroke, brain trauma or cardiac arrest but the process also cools the entire body potentially leading to blood clotting and even heart attacks. A medical device to...

Reducing strokes may prevent the development of dementia

Reducing strokes may prevent the development of dementia

A worldwide call to action, spearheaded by Western University researcher Dr. Vladimir Hachinski, is calling for more attention to the link between reducing strokes and preventing dementia. Approximately 747,000 Canadians live with dementia, including Alzheimer’s...

Western’s Leadership and Democracy Lab to host post-election panel

Western’s Leadership and Democracy Lab to host post-election panel

Western University's Leadership and Democracy Lab is hosting a post-Canadian federal election panel on Tuesday, October 20, which will feature experts from Western's Department of Political Science and the Ivey School of Business. After delivering opening statements...

New Western-led research facility looks to protect our rivers

New Western-led research facility looks to protect our rivers

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sCrC6cAkfY Western University geography professor Adam Yates has developed a better way of understanding how actions on land affect life in our waterways. Yates and his colleagues have recently constructed the Thames River...