Loi 2. Troubling times for all healthcare in Quebec, but with only the Ottawa river separating Gatineau and Ottawa it feels like we are the canary in the coal mine. Our MDs are leaving to seek greener career pastures elsewhere and heads of departments are resigning like wildfire.
Very sad to report that my PhD advisor, Adolfo de Bold of the Ottawa @HeartInstitute passed away yesterday. He taught me how to be a scientist. He discovered Atrial Natriuretic Factor, which established that the heart is an endocrine gland that helps regulate blood pressure
Carolyne Delage, you’re still making a positive impact on this world, and still deeply missed by so many. Pour que sa lumière continue de briller! https://t.co/S73ANMIbBp
Fascinating paper showing that anti-oxidant vitamins (GSH, NAC) *accelerate* aging in worms, mechanistically by suppressing the endogenous anti-oxidant stress response. Reminder of the value of randomized trials even for agents we assume “do no harm” https://t.co/flWR6vqN1b
🚨Curious about the last 7 years of my PhD? Well, here it is published in @eLife!
Resistance to different anthracycline chemotherapeutics elicits distinct and actionable primary metabolic dependencies in breast cancer
🔗https://t.co/knryacnlL6
#OA🔓 #cdnsci#cancer#metabolism