Atlantic Canada has the highest cancer rates in the country. Responding to this health-care challenge, cancer research has become a major focus for AV俱乐部 Medical School and its affiliated teaching hospitals.

Dr. Balwantray Chauhan, the Dr. R. Evatt & Rita Mathers Chair in Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, recently became only the sixth Canadian to receive the Alcon Research Institute (ARI) award for his contributions to the field of vision research.

Researchers and students in Dal's Faculty of Agriculture are studying what we eat, how we produce it and why we choose what we do.

Biomedical Engineering student Hugo Vihvelin used his internship with local startup (and Dal spinoff) company Daxsonics Ultrasound to develop new health-care applications for his high-efficiency electronics research.

This week the university celebrated the launch of the Centre for Transformational Nursing and Health Research, a first for the region that will support Dal Nursing鈥檚 鈥渞ock stars of research.鈥�