Leyla Soleymani, an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Physics, and Andrea Gonzalez, an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, have been elected to the RSC’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

The prototype of a new form of rapid test to detect infections in farm animals, created by biochemist Yingfu Li and engineer Leyla Soleymani and their colleagues, has been proven effective in detecting a devastating diarrheal infection in pigs first identified in Canada in 2014.

McMaster researchers who created an accurate, portable diagnostic test have new federal funding to support their work with a company that specializes in developing nanotechnology and health-care solutions.