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news.umanitoba.ca | Rady Faculty |Matthew Kruchak
April 15, 2025 — A University of Manitoba-led study successfully eliminated breast-cancer derived brain tumours in mice, using a drug to penetrate the brain and eliminate metastatic brain tumours. After testing 8,500 drugs, the research team discovered that poziotinib – a drug that already exists and is approved for other cancers – reduced breast cancer brain metastasis tumours in mice after two weeks of treatment.
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news.umanitoba.ca | Rady Faculty |Matthew Kruchak
April 11, 2025 — On March 28, a wide smile crossed Ifeyinwa’s face as Dr. Dieter Schonwetter handed her the keys to her new home. She was officially a homeowner. Schonwetter, a Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry professor, and 57 volunteers from the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences helped construct Ifeyinwa’s four-bedroom townhouse in June 2024.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.umanitoba.ca | Rady Faculty |Matthew Kruchak
April 9, 2025 — When Alexandra Moya learned there would be an oral cancer screening pop-up clinic on the Fort Garry campus, she signed up right away. Moya, a lab assistant in the department of microbiology at the Faculty of Science, was grateful for the opportunity to be screened for oral cancer. “The dentist and assistant were really great. They were kind and explained everything before and after the checkup,” Moya said.
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1 month ago | 
news.umanitoba.ca | Rady Faculty |Matthew Kruchak
March 6, 2025 — This year’s Doctors Manitoba Award winners all have strong connections to the Max Rady College of Medicine. Eight of the nine award recipients are UM alumni and seven earned their medical degrees at UM, including Physicians of the Year Dr. Michel Bruneau and Dr. Selena Papetti. And all nine physicians hold positions within the Max Rady College of Medicine.
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news.umanitoba.ca | Rady Faculty |Matthew Kruchak
February 24, 2025 — February is Psychology Month, and it’s a time to celebrate psychologists and the vital work they do, including research. One of the clinician-scientists at the Max Rady College of Medicine‘s department of clinical health psychology is Dr. Kristene Cheung. She’s an assistant professor whose research and clinical practice are focused on children and adolescents with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
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2 months ago | 
news.umanitoba.ca | Rady Faculty |Matthew Kruchak
February 19, 2025 — Alia Marcinkow [B.Sc./08, B.Sc.(Pharm)/14] puts the “community” in community pharmacist. The UM alum lives and works in Grandview, Man. – located west of Dauphin, about 360 km from Winnipeg – where she is an extremely active community member.
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2 months ago | 
news.umanitoba.ca | Rady Faculty |Matthew Kruchak
February 14, 2025 — Health researchers at the University of Manitoba have been awarded more than $9.6 million in the latest round of project grant funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). “Congratulations to the UM researchers who secured CIHR funding for their cutting-edge work in health and well-being,” said Dr. Mario Pinto, UM vice-president, research and international. “This recognition highlights the impact of UM’s innovative health research.
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2 months ago | 
news.umanitoba.ca | Rady Faculty |Matthew Kruchak
February 5, 2025 — When Dr. Juliana (Julie) Pfeffer was growing up, she thought all dentists conducted research, taught dental students and delivered care, because her parents did all three. “Conversations around the dinner table were always about patient cases,” she remembers. Pfeffer followed her mother and father – former faculty members at UM and the University of Toronto (U of T), respectively – into both dentistry and academia.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
news.umanitoba.ca | Rady Faculty |Matthew Kruchak
January 23, 2025 — The Dean of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences Graduate Student Achievement Prize was awarded to 10 extraordinary graduate students in 2024. The award recognizes outstanding academic achievement, strong leadership skills and notable personal service of grad students at the Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry, Max Rady College of Medicine, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy and College of Rehabilitation Sciences.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
news.umanitoba.ca | Rady Faculty |Matthew Kruchak
January 15, 2025 — If you visit a dentist or dental hygienist anywhere in Manitoba, there’s a good chance John Perry [DMD/76, M.Sc./86] was one of their teachers. The oral pathologist has been imparting wisdom at the Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry for more than 40 years. He’s done the math, and he figures he’s seen more than 3,000 dental students, dental hygiene learners and residents earn their degrees and diplomas.
