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Division of Experimental Medicine Report DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE Division of Experimental Medicine Annual Report 2015 (a) Experimental Medicine 2015: Transition Year It has been a transition year for the Division of Experimental Medicine with 48% of our students re-located to the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center (MUHC-RI), at the Glen site. A special orientation evening was organized in September by the EMGSS and Ms. Besso and Linhares to help students get to know each other and get familiar with the site and the resources available to them. This also served the purpose of getting our students from outside the Glen to get familiar with the facility. The courses offered by the Division were migrated to new spaces on campus, when mostly addressed to undergraduate students, whereas courses addressed mostly to graduate students were for the major part moved to the Glen site. When possible, some were also maintained at our affiliated Institutes. Ms. Besso works from the MUHC-RI one day per week to facilitate access to the departmental affairs for our students and professors now located off McGill campus. (b) Experimental Medicine Web page The Experimental Medicine Web page, which was redesigned in 2014, is continuously updated with new information from our professors and with new and updated guidelines for students and professors. The web page is also currently evaluated for optimization as an advertisement tool to improve student recruitment. (c) Courses and Program Development Following the EMGSS recommendations made in 2013, we are developing new courses so that our students have access to a wider range of courses within their own Division. New courses: 1) A course on Biostatistics has been developed by Dr. Nandini Dendukuri. It is in its final stage of approval by McGill to be offered in September 2016. Students are already lining up to register. 2) A course on ethics in science is being developed by Dr. Cournoyer. It was offered as two workshops this year for testing and adjustments while waiting for approval by McGill. - 1 - 3) The development of a course on vaccination was started last year by Dr. Ward and is expected to be offered in 2017. This course will be ‘launched’ at McGill but will involve a network of colleagues of Dr. Ward to share the content nationally. Specifically, Dr. Ward will use external support (Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Provincial, industry) to populate the course with faculty members from across the country either directly (visiting lecturers) and/or to use modern media to bring a broad range of faculty to the course ‘virtually’. 4) A course on translation research is also being developed by Dr. Laneuville and is expected to start in the 2017 winter term. This course will address a wide variety of topics such as: molecular mechanisms of Alzeimer and Autism, Immunology of contact dermatitis, genomic cardiology, cancer stem cell biology, etc. 5) A course on Host-Parasite Interactions: From bench to bedside is currently being developed by Drs. Martin Olivier and Momar Ndao. We hope to also have that course available for the winter 2017. 6) An interdepartmental course on Stem Cells is being developed by Dr. Terry Hebert (from Pharmacology). (d) New programs: 1) An interdepartmental Environment Program (Environmental Health) was developed by Dr. Mark Goldberg. 2) An MD/MSc Program is under development by Dr. Mark Eisenberg. (e) Experimental Medicine Graduate Student Society (EMGSS): The most significant achievements of the EMGSS every year is the organization of the Annual McGill Biomedical Graduate Conference” (AMBGC) that was held at the La Plaza Hotel on March 19th, 2015. This event offers graduate students in biomedical research the opportunity to present and discuss their work in a stimulating and collegial environment that permits networking opportunities among their peers. Approximately 200 students attended this year’s conference, representing graduate students from the Montréal area, Sherbrook and Québec city, post-doctoral fellows, and university faculty and community members. There were 107 presentations, oral and posters, from students engaged in biomedical research. The Keynote Speaker was Dr. Rafi Ahmed director of the Emory Vaccine Center. The EMGSS managed to secure sponsorship from several organizations to aid in funding the event. In addition to the AMBGC, the EMGSS hosted several other social events. A summary report of the EMGSS’ activities for 2015- 2016 is attached as Appendix 1. - 2 - (f) Graduate Students (i) Numbers (Appendix 2): There were 280 students registered in Experimental Medicine as of the Fall 2015 semester, a slight but continuous decrease since the peak of 322 reached in 2013. Of these, 89 were newly admitted to our programs in 2015, in the following proportions (25 Ph.D., 53 M.Sc., and 11 Diploma in Clinical Research). Eighty-two (82) students graduated from our programs in the 2015 calendar year, in the following proportions: 19 Ph.D., 44 M.Sc., and 19 Clinical Research Diploma. Overall the enrolment in Experimental Medicine Graduate programs decreased by approximately 9 % relative to 2014. With an anticipated enrolment of approximately 60 students in the upcoming calendar year, our numbers are expected to slightly decrease. (ii) Years in the program (Appendix 3): The average number of years in the Ph.D. program has shown a marked decrease over that of last year (from 6.28 in 2014 to 5.32 in 2015). A slight decrease has been seen in the average number of years to complete an M.Sc. (from 2.63 in 2014 to 2.43 in 2015) and slight increase for the Diploma in Clinical Research (from 1.04 in 2014 to 1.16 in 2015). These numbers seem to stabilize most probably due to our tighter control on the progression of students through their program. We still hope to reduce these figures to no more than 5 and 2 years for the Ph.D. and M.Sc. programs, respectively. To this end the Division continues to work towards assuring that students submit theses in a timely fashion without being subject to time limitations imposed by Graduate and Post-Doctoral Studies. As always, the Division takes a large role in organizing annual thesis committee meetings to ensure that they take place in a timely fashion. (iii) Graduate student funding (Appendix 4): Sixty-five (65) external awards were secured by our graduate students which is a decrease of 38% compared to 2014 (note that the number of students decreased by only 9%). The total amount of dollars from external fellowships did not decrease as much (only 22% decrease) due to the substantial contribution of foreign governmental awards to international students. Note also that starting this year, we included the fee waivers as part of the external funding which artificially increased the total amount of funding. A larger percentage of our students also benefitted from internal funding (292 awards totaling $1,296,465 were awarded to Experimental Medicine students). Thus, the total funding awarded to our students decreased by 11% from that of 2014 ($2,737,644 compared to $3,069,322.50 in 2014). - 3 - (iv) Honors: The outstanding caliber of our students continues to be recognized by both McGill and the Canadian scientific community. Notably, 6 of our students were once again invited to attend the Canadian Student Health Research Forum in Winnipeg, which takes place in June of each year. (v) Productivity award: The productivity award competition that was created in 2014 was not repeated this year. Although the Division believes in rewarding our talented and successful students, 2015 was more challenging in terms of grant support for our researchers and students. Therefore, the money that we had previously allocated to this exercise was used this year to pay the stipend of our students whose supervisors’ unexpectedly did not renew their grants and could not support them. (g) Staff Membership The Division’s total membership remained the same over the past year despite retirement and passing away of some members. The Division presently has 228 members (69 Full, 45 Associate and 17 Assistant Professors in Medicine and 3 Emeritus Professors). There are also 59 Associate Members from other departments at McGill, as well as 34 Adjunct Members from the Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) and 1 member appointed only for the duration of one student’s degree. Of these, 134 are currently active supervisors of graduate students registered in the Division. (h) Conclusion 2015 was a year of transition which was challenging but successful. The Division and its members adapted and reorganized. The move of 48% of our students to the MUHC-RI resulted in new collaborations and access to new equipment and facilities. Also, the major changes that occurred at the level of the funding agencies (mostly CIHR) put pressure on our members which likely explains the decrease in the number of new students. We will have to develop new strategies for our students to secure more external studentships/fellowships. Anne-Marie Lauzon, Ph.D. Director Division of Experimental Medicine - 4 - Appendix 1 Experimental Medicine Graduate Student Society (EMGSS) Progress Report 2015-2016 Updated April 29th, 2016 The 2015-2016 EMGSS council was formed June 1st, 2015 and operating at full capacity starting October 2015 after the September by-election. The EMGSS council currently has 12 executive members as well as four institute representatives. The effort of this year’s EMGSS council focuses on building the connections between the division, EMGSS, and the students. This was primarily done through organizing academic and non-academic events. To start off the year, we hosted an EMGSS Picnic Day on July 24th, 2015 with a turnout of over 40 students. Next, the division and EMGSS collaborated on organizing the Fall Student Orientation which took place at the Glen Atrium on September 18th.
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