September 2018.Our laboratory, along with Idunn Technologies Inc., has been nominated for the 28th Innovation Award of the Association of Industrial Research Managers of Quebec.
February 2018.Younes Medkour, a Doctoral student in the lab, has been shortlisted for a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC's) Science, Action! contest. Please watch this YouTube NSERC’s video.
December 2017. For a discussion of our research on chemical molecules to delay aging and prevent age-related diseases, please watch this YouTube video on the Concordia: Next-Gen. Now Campaign.
September 2017.Our laboratory, along with Idunn Technologies Inc., has been nominated for the 27th Innovation Award of the Association of Industrial Research Managers of Quebec.
April 2017. Our research on a natural chemical compound that kills cancer cells has been highlighted in an article published in the Montreal Gazette.
February 2017. Our research on a natural chemical compound that delays aging has been highlighted in an article published in Le Devoir.
February 2017. Our research on a natural chemical compound that kills cancer cells has been highlighted in an article published in Le Devoir.
January 2017. Our discoveries that yeast cells have evolved active mechanisms for limiting their lifespan upon reaching a certain chronological age and that these mechanisms drive the evolution of yeast longevity towards maintaining a finite yeast lifespan within ecosystems have been highlighted in Concordia News stories.
September 2016. Our research on natural chemical compounds that delay aging and selectively kill cancer cells has been highlighted in an article published in the Concordia University Magazine.
September 2016. Vladimir Titorenko has been interviewed at the Barry Morgan Show (CJAD 800, Montreal's #1 News Talk Radio station) about the innovative research on the six plant extracts that can delay aging.
September 2016. Vladimir Titorenko has been selected by Concordia University Communications Services as Concordia’s Newsmaker of the week for the innovative research on the six plant extracts that can delay aging.
September 2016. Our discovery of how six plant extracts delay yeast chronological aging through different signaling pathways has been highlighted in Concordia News stories
March 2016. Our discovery of six plant extracts that greatly delay yeast chronological aging has been highlighted in the news media
March 2016. Our discovery of six plant extracts that greatly delay yeast chronological aging has been highlighted in Concordia News stories
February 2015. Our discovery of mechanisms by which lithocholic acid delays aging and selectively kills cancer cells has been highlighted in Concordia News stories
September 2014. Our discovery of potent anti-cancer and longevity-extending effects of lithocholic acid has been highlighted in an article "What we did first" published in the Concordia University magazine.
December 2012. For a discussion of our research on a mechanism underlying a potent anti-tumor effect of lithocholic bile acid in cultured human cancer cells and its potential applications, please watch this YouTube video
January 2012.Vladimir Titorenko has been named “Personnalité de la semaine La Presse/Radio-Canada”.
April 2009. Christopher Gregg's research on aging has been featured in a winter 2009 edition of The Newsletter of the Canadian Society for Life Science Research.
January 2009. Our research on aging has been highlighted in an article published in "Concordia Journal".
January 2009. Our research on aging has been highlighted by Concordia University Media Relations.
December 2008. Our research on aging has been highlighted in an article published in "EurekAlert!", an online, global news service operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
December 2008. Our research on aging has been highlighted in an article published in "Science News" (Washington, D.C.).
December 2008. Our research on aging has been highlighted in "Cell Biology 2008", a Press Book for science journalists covering the 48th American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
December 2008. Our research on aging has been featured at a daily "Press Briefing" in the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Newsroom during the 48th ASCB Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
September 2008. Our research on aging has been chosen by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Public Information Committee for inclusion in "Cell Biology 2008", a Press Book for science journalists covering the 48th ASCB Annual Meeting that will be held in San Francisco in December of 2008. The abstract describing the research, "A Mechanism Linking Lipid Dynamics and Longevity", was chosen from the 1,043 abstracts submitted for talks at the 48th ASCB Annual Meeting as one of this year's "Novel & Newsworthy Top Picks".
August 2008. Our research on aging has been highlighted in an article published in "Science News" (Washington, D.C.).
September 2005. Our research on peroxisome biogenesis has been highlighted in an articlepublished in the Concordia University Office of Research newsletter "The Innovator".