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Improving dialysis through imaging Lloyd Weiss was a 10-year-old-boy in Edmonton, Alberta when he had his left kidney removed. “They told me it wasn’t functioning and so they took it out,” says Lloyd, now 62. “After that, everything seemed fine.” He went to school, started working as an aircraft...
A PRIME Team
Collaborating to improve rehabilitation For many years, Patrick Stapleton would experience severe back pain about once a year, typically leaving him unable to move for a couple of days. “Once I could walk again, I’d go to a chiropractor and be okay,” he recalls. In May 2015, Patrick was in the midst...
Tackling the Opioid Crisis
It’s been called the most complex public health issue of our time. The opioid crisis has transformed the face of addiction, making health care providers question everything from the way pain is managed to underlying causes of disease. The severity of the epidemic is evident in the lives that are...
Expertise
Lawson Health Research Institute is known worldwide for its innovative medical research. We are closely integrated with collaborative groups across Canada, North America and in more than 40 countries around the world – we know how to work as a team. This collaboration allows us to offer a wide range...
Cool Science
Does your morning cup of coffee interfere with medication for high blood pressure? A research team from Lawson and Western University led by Dr. David Bailey measured how occasional coffee consumption reduces the action of a commonly prescribed class of blood-pressure lowering medication. Calcium...
Health care as unique as DNA
How personalized medicine revolutionizes care with treatments tailored to the individual Imagine you are diagnosed with a disease or other health condition. You need to take medication to manage the illness, or maybe even to stay alive. Testing and analysis is done to study your unique DNA and other...
The good side of bacteria
An evolution of probiotic research Lawson scientist Dr. Gregor Reid was once ridiculed for claiming that healthy bacteria inhabit our bodies. The idea that we could consume bacteria to improve health was even more ludicrous. Today, probiotics is a multimillion dollar industry and research is rapidly...
Beyond the lab
How early-stage academic research becomes a commercialized treatment available to patients You could say that the story of Novare Pharmaceuticals begins with a discovery Dr. Eva Turley made during her postdoctoral training. She found a protein called RHAMM (Recepter for Hyaluronan-Mediated Motility)...
Targeting cancer at every stage
“You have cancer.” It’s one of the most feared sentences. A cancer diagnosis can send a person – and their family – on a long and difficult journey. At Lawson Health Research Institute, researchers are committed to improving every stage. Discoveries are happening in the lab, in the clinic and in...
Solving the mysteries of PTSD
Do patients have the power to reorganize their own brain activity? After spending 13 years in and out of hospitals, Teresa Kinney had given up hope. She did not expect to get well. Teresa experienced extended trauma at a young age in the form of repeated sexual assaults. In the years that followed...
Believing in a cure
Patients, researchers and clinicians unite to fight rare disorders Jennie Ogden remembers the first time she heard ‘Spinal Muscular Atrophy.’ “I didn’t know what it was, but I knew the word atrophy was serious.” Jennie’s daughter, Sophie Blair, was in hospital with a lung infection. Previously, they...
Smart tech, smart treatment
How two Lawson researchers are taking a digital approach to improving patient care At first glance, it may not seem like the studies of Lawson researchers Drs. Mandar Jog and Cheryl Forchuk have much in common. A neurologist at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), Dr. Jog works on treatments for...
Expertise
Lawson Health Research Institute is known worldwide for its innovative medical research. We are closely integrated with collaborative groups across Canada, North America and in more than 40 countries around the world – we know how to work as a team. This collaboration allows us to offer a wide range...
Cool Science
Personalizing dialysis Dr. Amit Garg Heart attacks and strokes are the leading cause of death among dialysis patients. Lawson scientists Dr. Chris McIntyre, director of the Lilibeth Caberto Kidney Clinical Research Unit at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), and Dr. Amit Garg, nephrologist and...
The next generation: Spotlight on Zain Awamleh
Zain Awamleh is a trainee at Children’s Health Research Institute, a program of Lawson, and a PhD candidate in the Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University. The research Normal development of the placenta is critical to ensure proper fetal growth in...
Walk the talk
Walking and talking can be an early predictor of dementia Roy Bratty, 82, and his wife AnnabelMcMillan, made a family decision to participate in research when they recognized that Roy was beginning to show signs of memory issues. “When we met with our doctor, a few different research projects were...
A gut reaction
Tackling colorectal cancer using ‘mini-guts’ IN DR. SAMUEL ASFAHA’S LABORATORY YOU WILL FIND... the hallmarks of medical research from petri dishes to high-powered microscopes. More unusually, you will find ‘mini-guts’ – gastrointestinal (GI) structures developed from stem cells. The mini-guts are...