Department of Biological Sciences

Dr. Olga Kovalchuk to be awarded 2019 University of Lethbridge Speaker Research Award

Dr. Kovalchuk is recognized as a pioneer in the study of radiation biology, cancer and epigenetics

Student research highlighted at Undergraduate Research Symposium

Undergraduate students Haley Vanderploeg and Chad Beck took home the top two prizes respectively

Undergrad scores big with research poster

Summer research project leads to prize-winning poster

Breakthrough discovery in U of L collaborative research study brings potential for new cancer therapies

Publication of the study opens the door to numerous other projects

U of L contributes to roadmap for enhancing human resistance to radiation for life in space

Radiation is a serious matter in space travel and international researchers, including Dr. Olga Kovalchuk, have produced a map to enhance human resistance

University honours Dr. Igor Kovalchuk with Speaker Research Award

Kovalchuk is recognized as a pioneering researcher at the forefront of plant genome stability and the burgeoning field of epigenetics

Kovalchuk planting the seed for epigenetic advances in agriculture

Igor Kovalchuk received the 2013 Innovation in Agricultural Science Award from ASTech, the Alberta Science and Technology Leadership Foundation

Touch therapy helps brains recover following stroke

Researchers find that rats exposed to prenatal stress that then experienced a stroke in adulthood suffered more severe motor disabilities compared to rats that experienced only a stroke

Functional Flows

Dr. Stewart Rood and a team of researchers engage in a critical study investigating Alberta's water supply

Synbiologica records another win

Student researcher/entrepreneurs have developed a new method of detecting hormones and are in the process of patenting their idea

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