LE MAGAZINE
Avril 2025
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Inspired and inspiring research teams!
Héma-Québec’s teams have such a wide variety of expertise, that if you asked someone what they did for their job and they said that they work at Héma-Québec, they wouldn’t be giving you very much of...
SPECIAL FEATURE: RESEARCH AT HÉMA‑QUÉBEC
Inspired and inspiring research teams!
Héma-Québec’s teams have such a wide variety of expertise, that if you asked someone what they did for their job and they said that they work at Héma-Québec, they wouldn’t be giving you very much of...
Research excellence: A vital part of Héma‑Québec’s mission!
Héma-Québec’s scientific research teams play a key role in serving the people of Québec and in helping the organization make new breakthroughs and optimize its operations. Through their many projects,...
Donating to research: Another great way to give!
To bring such major scientific studies to life, our research teams need a large number of biological samples. Most research samples of precious products like blood, plasma and mother’s milk come from...
BLOOD
Organizing a blood drive is a whole team effort!
You’ve no doubt seen one of our signs in the window of your neighbourhood’s school gym, on a utility pole near your local community centre, or at the entrance to a shopping mall. The title, in all...
PLASMA
How plasma donations helped Alexandre get his head above water
As a young man studying microbiology and immunology at McGill University while competing in high-level swimming, Alexandre Grant couldn’t be stopped—until he encountered something far scarier than...
HUMAN TISSUES
Musician Alex Henry Foster was hanging onto life by a thread... and by a helping hand!
For years, Montréal singer and musician Alex Henry Foster’s flourishing career had him jetsetting around the world. Alex never felt fully at home in the role of pop star, so in his solo career he...
STEM CELLS
Not all heroes wear capes... but some wear helmets!
Ex-firefighter Sylvain Côté was facing down his second prognosis of imminent death, when for the first time he found himself on the other end of an act of heroic altruism: a total stranger had saved...
MOTHER’S MIK
Can you really donate mother’s milk?
Absolutely! The Public Mothers’ Milk Bank was created in 2014 to help mothers and their premature babies who need medical care. Around a third of mothers who give birth prematurely have difficulty...
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