Safer, more efficient drug discovery

Published: 9 April 2024

McGill researchers have discovered a safer and more efficient technique for testing new drugs while they are in development.

Mapping international drug use by looking at wastewater

Published: 23 October 2019

Wastewater-based epidemiology is a rapidly developing scientific discipline with the potential for monitoring close to real-time, population-level trends in illicit drug use. By sampling a known...

Palladium(II) Dithiocarbamates - Anticancer Metallodrugs of the Future?

Published: 23 November 2016

Most chemistry students are well aware of the anticancer properties of cisplatin, cis-Pt(NH3)2Cl2,  as a result of the pioneering work of Professor Barnett Rosenberg and his colleagues at the...

Why the bar needs to be raised for human clinical trials

Published: 30 January 2017

Standards for authorizing first-time trials of drugs in humans are lax, and should be strengthened in several ways, McGill University researchers argue in a paper published today in Nature.

$5M for Malaria, Tuberculosis Drug-discovery Research

Published: 17 December 2015

University of Toronto and McGill University scientists are leading an international partnership to discover new and improved drug treatments for tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical...

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