Tag: University of Alberta

Collaboration key to solving medicine’s thorniest problems

Pharmacy researcher Khaled Barakat's research involves creating computer models to help develop potential new treatments for everything from hepatitis C and cancer to COVID-19. Barakat says the lessons he learned in his two years as a post-doctoral researcher in Michael Houghton's lab have served him well as he heads his own research group at the U of A. (Photo: Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Reading Time: 5 minutes For Khaled Barakat, a focus on teamwork and patient needs has led to breakthroughs in the search for cancer therapies, antivirals and safer drugs

Alberta’s forest industries focus of new U of A research chair

$4-million endowed chair will focus on improving growth and yield of forests, informing industry management plans and educating the next generation of forestry professionals

Reading Time: 3 minutes $4-million endowed chair will focus on improving growth and yield of forests, informing industry management plans and educating the next generation of forestry professionals

Landmark research could lead to better understanding of diseases

Michael Hendzel (right) co-led a study that revealed the gel-like nature of chromatin, the complex package of DNA and proteins contained within the nucleus of our cells. The researchers say the discovery could lead to better understanding of diseases like cancer. (Photo: Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry; taken pre-COVID-19)

Reading Time: 4 minutes Researchers have found an answer to a fundamental question that has eluded scientists since the discovery of DNA