Newfoundland and Labrador welcomes over 28,000 seafarers each year who support key sectors such as offshore energy, fisheries, and international trade. Despite the province’s deep maritime heritage, St. John’s remains the only major Canadian port without a dedicated Seafarers’ Centre. This gap limits access to essential welfare services, rest facilities, and communication support for visiting […]

RAR Innovations is a woman-owned, Newfoundland-based start-up focused on improving emergency-care technology through the development of the Lickety Splint (LS), a one-piece, wrap-around compression immobilization device that combines the function of a splint and a bandage. Unlike conventional splints such as the SAM Splint, SpeedSplint, or improvised wooden planks, the Lickety Splint can be applied […]

VerteVUE is a portable, radiation free, imaging device that will allow clinicians to assess critical anatomical features of the spine at the point of care. VerteVUE supports early clinical decision making when used alongside patient reported outcome measures (PROMs), standardized questionnaires and physical assessments. It also streamlines triage to determine conservative versus surgical care, reducing […]

Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer in Canada. While many patients live long lives with treatment, some develop incurable disease that spreads to the bones. When this happens, survival drops sharply and patients often face severe pain, broken bones, and serious complications such as spinal cord damage. Bone changes caused by prostate cancer […]

This project investigates existing and potentially new approaches to analyze functional brain structures in individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), using advanced neuroimaging such as fMRI, and machine learning. The goal is to identifying patterns built on dependent features within the images representing the connectivity matrices of brain regions. The project will investigate whether causal […]

Les poissons ressentent la douleur mais cette perception n’a été reconnue que très récemment. Pour cette raison, l’étude des traitements analgésiques en est encore à ses débuts chez les poissons. Pourtant, de nombreuses situations impliquent de la douleur chez ces espèces, comme des plaies traumatiques, des fractures, ou des chirurgies réalisées dans un contexte de […]

Surfactant Protein B (SPB) deficiency is a rare genetic disease where surfactant B is not produced in the lung, proper breathing fails and lungs collapse. The disease usually presents early in life, and unless lung transplantation is performed, no other approaches have provided long-term cure. Yet, lung transplantation is not an ideal approach either, as […]

This project aims to develop computer models that can help improve how stroke care is delivered in hospitals with limited resources. By using data and predicting patient needs, we hope to design better ways to manage hospital staff, equipment, and patient care. The collaboration between Arizona State University and Dalhousie University will combine expertise in […]

(1) Notre partenaire principal, Laura Lémerveil croit qu’il est possible que tous les jeunes s’accomplissent pleinement malgré le handicap ou les conditions de santé. Guide´ par cette mission, Laura Le´merveil exploite de´jà le potentiel de l’art et notamment la musique au sein de son offre de services. (2) Ce projet émane de la volonté de […]

The project’s goal is to investigate the use of a 2D reduced graphene oxide (rGO) based microfluidic channel driven electrochemical biosensor to detect AMI biomarkers. The device could be able to identify heart attacks before they happen. Therefore, it may be beneficial to reduce the enormous number of deaths brought on by this illness worldwide. […]

mRNA vaccine technologies came to the forefront of public health during the recent global pandemic and this technology also has great potential for other therapeutic approaches. These vaccine platforms require that the mRNA be encapsulated by fat molecules into structures called “lipid nanoparticles”, and the specific chemical formulations of the mRNA and fats determine the […]

Ce projet part du constat que le domaine de la santé n’est désormais plus l’apanage seul des acteurs publics, car de plus en plus de renseignements personnels relatifs à la santé sont captés et exploités par des acteurs économiques privés pour développer des dispositifs numériques “intelligentes”. Longtemps dépourvue d’une définition juridique, la notion de « […]