This project learns from the experience of participants in an eight-week Mind-Body Medicine program (MBM). Mind-Body Medicine (MBM) teaches people how to help themselves by uncovering and engaging their inner resources and building resilience, broadly understood. The eight-week MBM program is delivered through the Iris Centre for Mindfulness, Peace and Healing in Fredericton. This research […]

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a life-threatening medical condition, and it remains the primary reason for premature death (persons aged 25–64) worldwide. Therefore, early screening of cardiac biomarkers is critically important for improving survival chances. The existing methods for detecting cardiac biomarkers are multi-step approaches and require laboratory tests, which have higher test times, are […]

The proposed research project will investigate the challenges facing Canadian healthcare workers who currently work either fully or partially from home – and examine the effect that these challenges have on their engagement, job satisfaction, well-being, and intentions to stay at versus leave their current job. To do this, our research interns will conduct interviews […]

The protein hormones (ligands) that circulate in blood plasma and their receptors on the surface of cells are among the most important diagnostic and therapeutic molecules and are a key focus for the detection and treatment of diseases. Presenting the ligands on chromatography beads may permit the isolation of receptors by a modified form of […]

We have completed a research project titled COVID-19 Pandemic and Psycho-Social and Occupational Wellbeing of Frontline Healthcare Workers in BC, funded in 2021 through the Michael Smith Health Research BC, which is British Columbia’s health research agency. This project helped us to collect data from 400 frontline workers from BC. Using a unique combination of […]

FirstHx wishes to validate the French component of its’ in-person patient facing digital medical interview solution, which could be offered to clinicians and practitioners as a means of empowering patients, reducing time of clinical documentation, improve efficiency while increasing quality of care. Researchers from the UMoncton have the expertise and resources to validate our AI […]

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 […]

Bacteria are surrounded by envelopes that are responsible for cell shape and size. Bacterial cell shape and size are important for the organization of intracellular processes, for multicellular interactions, and for infection in case of pathogens. The cell envelope also protects bacteria from the environment. Not surprisingly, it is thus a major target for antibiotics […]

Vertical jumping is important for athletic performance (for example, basketball, volleyball), but could also involve injury risk if done incorrectly. Our purpose is to explore whether a stretching program of the calf muscles enhances vertical jump performance and decreases some of the risk factors for injury in adolescent athletes. Having more flexible calf muscles increases […]

A surgical site infection (SSI) is an infection that occurs after a surgical procedure. Despite a variety of infection prevention strategies, SSIs still occur often and impose a significant burden on patients and the healthcare system. Intraoperative irrigation (or washing of the surgical incision before closure) may reduce SSIs, but this is uncertain. The Clinical […]

The Canadian Mental Health Association – Edmonton Region is facing key challenges related to significant growth, limited processes and tools in place to measure and evaluate our service quality on this given scale, and the introduction of new technology and telephony system providing us with data required for quality assurance. Through auditing our current system […]

Gene therapy has the potential to cure a wide range of debilitating genetic diseases. One of the best ways to correct a genetic defect is to use a viral vector to deliver a functional copy of the gene to cells in the body so that they can express a functional protein and reverse the disease […]