Slower ageing. Health sector mergers. Curatorial Dreams.

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• Coverage continues of a study led by associate professor of biology Vladimir Titorenko and Idunn Technologies founder Éric Simard, identifying molecules found in plants that could slow the ageing process. The study was published in Oncotarget: TVAnouvelles.ca, Journal de Montréal e-edition, World Health, Bio Space, Biotechnology Focus, MSN UK.
• The Montreal Gazette and the Gazette's e-edition, reporting on a planned merger of the McGill University Health Centre with two medical networks in the city's west-end, talk to Jisun Yu, associate professor of management at the John Molson School of Business. The article references Yu's study of the 1994 merger of health institutions in Minnesota. She warns of the bureaucratic difficulties inherent in such a merger. The article is reprised by Canada.com.
• Artribune (in Italian) writes about the recent work of Erica Lehrer, associate professor in the Department of History and Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies. The work in question is the book Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), which Lehrer co-edited.

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