This past week, Montreal Friends of UCU president Dr. Yury Monczak was invited to give lectures at the Ukrainian Catholic University and the National Academy of Science institute in Lviv. It was a very exciting opportunity for Yury who is a cancer researcher at the Jewish General Hospital and a professor of genetics at McGill. He spoke about molecular diagnostics and treatment of cancer- his area of expertise. The talks were well attended and stirred up great enthusiasm for modern advances in cancer research. Yury also met with researchers - his Ukrainian counterparts. They have little or no funding and sadly work in labs that are about 20 years behind in the equipment and technology readily found in North American laboratories. This really underlines the need to support Ukraine and not let these brilliant minds go to waste.
You can read about Yury's visit to the UCU on their website: http://ucu.edu.ua/news/4641/
Here is an interview Yury gave for a student newspaper: http://dyvensvit.org/suspilstvo/188/3479
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