Researchers Under the Scope

As a pediatric neurologist, Dr. Richard Huntsman sees the children with the most medically complex epilepsy

"It completely disrupts the life of a family," said Huntsman. "Limitations on what the chil…

Researchers in Robert Laprairie's laboratory are hard to miss, wearing tie-dyed lab coats as they oversee mice and lab rats in iPad-sized chambers filled with cannabis smoke.

An associate professor i…

Dr. Ivar Mendez is one of the world's leading experts in neuroscience and robotics, neuromodulation, and remote medicine.

But nine years ago, the award-winning neuroscientist who founded Dalhousie's …

From insects and birds, to the underwater world, Juan Ianowski's fascination with the natural world began early.

As a biologist, he was drawn to physiological processes, later scrutinizing the kidn…

Dr. Deborah Anderson has spent her career as a biochemist and cancer cell biologist pinning down elusive targets. 

Now she’s made a breakthrough in one of the world’s most swift-moving and aggressi…

Chandra Dattani's smile lit up the room, and her laughter was contagious.

But when the beloved Saskatoon businesswoman and volunteer was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer, even her husband…

When Veronica McKinney was a little girl, she vivdly remembers going to the Saskatoon Public Library, borrowing a Time-Life book about the human body.

"I loved that book and I would read it. I would …

Most patients at a hospital or a clinic walk in sick. Doctors do their best to treat their ailments.

Dr. Neils Koehncke's patients aren't necessarily sick. In fact, most are reasonably healthy and st…

From his time as captain of the Saskatoon Blades, to a career with the Saskatoon Police Service and the law -- Bruce Gordon was the kind of father, athlete and coach who inspired everyone around him.

As Saskatchewan drops its proof-of-vaccine requirements and masking orders, doctors and nurses are angry and frustrated, as they care for record numbers of Covid patients.

"There's this tension of ho…

Audrey Zucker-Levin estimates it's been more than 30 years since she first poked her head into a researcher's office at New York City's Hospital for Special Surgery.

Back then, the clinical therapist…

Some had cardiovascular damage. Some had gastrointestinal issues.

But it wasn't because of …

"I'm passionate about what I do,' he said, describing his journey through me…

Without a car, without childcare, without a grocery store, a pharmacy, or a place to get blood work done, how does a person with diabetes in rural Saskatchewan keep their disease in check?

Those are …

For senior citizens, fracturing a hip is more often than not a life-changing injury.

One in three of those patients will die within a year. The second will recover and return home. The third often ne…

Dr. Marek Radomski says research pays off, in attracting dollars to post-secondary institutions, in creating healthier citizens, and in lowering health costs.

He's the vice-dean of research at the Un…

Dr Michael Levin is a neuroscientist unravelling the mysteries of nerve degeneration in Multiple Sclerosis patients. 

He's also Saskatchewan's inaugural MS Clinical Research Chair, whose team recentl…

One of the trickiest parts of treating patients with neuromuscular diseases such as Parkinson's and Multiple Sclerosis is figuring out how to keep them active and moving.

Fourth-year medical student …