5 research institutes, affiliated with the McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences:

• Population Health Research Institute (PHRI),
• Henderson Research Centre (HRC),
• Juravinski Cancer Centre (JCC),
• Offord Centre for Child Studies (OC), 
• Centre for Gene Therapeutics (CGT)   
  

Chronic diseases (PHRI); experimental thrombosis and atherosclerosis, clinical trials methodology, and the clinical thromboembolism (HRC); cancer (JCC); early child development (OC); basic pathobiology of inflammatory, and infectious and immune diseases (CGT) 

• First hospital in Canada to offer clinical whole body PET scans for the diagnosis of cancer
• Fitted the first C-Leg in North America, one of only 12 in the world
• First to investigate and find results indicating that if the drug ramipril is used widely in appropriate patients, over one million premature deaths, heart attacks and strokes would be prevented each year  

• Studies in diabetes, risk factors and CVD in populations, determinants of cardiovascular risk factors in urban and rural populations in developing countries, obesity and childhood risk factors (PHRI)
• Developing a community-based approach to bullying, piloting a community-based temper taming program in rural communities, and investigating the causes of school-related anxiety (OC)
• Developing a variety of delivery systems for the vaccines, including novel mucosal vaccines based on molecules that activate the innate immune system (CGT) 

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