McGill has been successful in the national competition for a massive amount of research funding under the federal government’s Canada First Excellence Research Fund (CFREF), which will provide the University with an $84-million grant over seven years to support an ambitious effort in neuroscience to advance understanding of the human brain and ease the burden of neurological and mental-health disorders.

By McGill reporter staff

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$ 900 million for universities

Ottawa invests almost a billion dollars in to research for major Canadian universities.

Vincent Maisonneuve

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