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Tiny Compounds, Big Impact
Breakthrough technology helps St. B researchers better understand how food affects health.
Mapping the Healing Journey Through Art
Clinical Nurse Specialist Emily Phillips is using arts and crafts to learn about patient experiences following open-heart surgery at St. B. September 18, 2025 A researcher at St. Boniface Hospital has turned pipe cleaners, glitter, and colourful markers into...
Funding the Future
From left: Researcher Dr. Thomas Netticadan, donors Frank and Jeanne Plett, and MSc student Sunita Karki, with undergraduate student Sandrius Mirochkinov, another Plett Endowed Studentship Grant recipient. June 20, 2025 University of Manitoba student researchers are...
The Beat Goes On, at Any Age
Heart disease is the number one killer of women in Canada. But St. Boniface Hospital researchers are working hard to change this. Before women go through menopause, they tend to have fewer heart attacks and strokes than men. However, they experience more after...
Please, Eat Your Peas!
Don’t like finishing your vegetables at dinner? St. Boniface Hospital researcher Dr. Michel Aliani can tell you why you should. Aliani is Principal Investigator, Nutritional Metabolomics Research in the Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders (DND) at the Hospital’s...
Cutting-Edge Care
Women are at a disadvantage when it comes to traditional cardiac research. The cardiovascular system has the most differences between men and women after the reproductive system. Yet, historically, most cardiac research has been based on men’s hearts. This leaves a...
Heart Disease Detective
August 21, 2024 How can we better prevent and manage cardiovascular disease? That question has been on award-winning St. Boniface Hospital researcher Dr. Peter Zahradka’s mind for the last 25 years. “The biggest issue has been that if you have cardiovascular disease,...
Trailblazing with MyVal
July 15, 2024 Thanks to Foundation donors, St. Boniface Hospital is renowned for its innovative and courageous approach to patient care. Physicians, researchers, and caregivers are pushing the boundaries of science every day, striving for the best possible care for...
Getting to the Heart of the Matter
October 26, 2023 For researcher Dr. Inna Rabinovich-Nikitin, it’s personal. Her interest in the issue of women’s heart health started with a promise she made to herself in a hospital bed. It has since become her life’s work. A decade ago, Rabinovich-Nikitin developed...
Payworks Does Right by Women
October 19, 2023 Payworks, a Winnipeg-based national workforce management solutions provider, has made a gift of $125,000 in support of a women’s heart health research initiative at St. Boniface Hospital. Women’s health is an issue near and dear to the heart of...
A world of difference for very ill newborns
Dr. Yasser El-Sayed (right) receives Duhamel Award honorarium from Karen Fowler, St. Boniface Hospital Foundation President & CEO. June 16, 2023 It was only fitting this year’s recipient of the Ronald J. Duhamel Innovation Award (Duhamel Award) could not be on...
Love of Science Takes Flight
March 24, 2023 If handling pigs’ hearts and sheep’s brains grossed them out, the smiles on their faces did not let it show. Four students from the remote community of Brochet in Northern Manitoba were introduced to authentic, hands-on science experiences in Winnipeg...