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The inner workings of our bodies often go unnoticed.

We don’t think of chronic illness, until it finds us. Diabetes and arthritis are a distant idea, until they become personal. Our immune system is an enigma, until we get sick.

Lawson leads in understanding, preventing and solving complex chronic illness.

For specialized teams of Lawson researchers, though, solving these problems is always front of mind.

In a city known as the birthplace of insulin, Lawson builds on a proud tradition of leadership in diabetes research and other endocrine disorders, through the Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Our dedicated clinician scientists are digging at the origins of different forms of arthritis, and testing new and better ways of treating this often-debilitating illness.

In a region that has cultivated breakthrough science in probiotics and gut health, we are recognized trailblazers in understanding the human microbiome - an invisible community of micro-organisms that balances our immune system, breaks down and absorbs nutrients, and provides a barrier to disease-producing organisms.

We are pioneer researchers of fecal microbial transplants to help the body fight infection and disease.

We want to discover the deepest roots of what makes us well, or what makes us ill.

That’s more than an abstract idea for us – improving human health is the goal we strive for every day.

Lawson leads in understanding, preventing and solving complex chronic illness. Read more to see where it will lead you.

At Lawson’s hub of research into aging and neurogenerative diseases, we weave together world-changing science with clinical practice.

Our determined team of experts seeks to help people live better and more independently throughout their lifespans, and to halt the rising toll that dementia is taking on Canadians.

It’s why we’re national and global leaders in:

• Seeking earlier, faster ways to diagnose and predict dementia and related neurodegenerative diseases through innovative biomarker tests and advanced brain imaging
• Leading rigorous trials of new medications that could delay or halt – or potentially even reverse – cognitive impairment
• Understanding the link between cognition and mobility, osteoporosis and bone health, falls and frailty,
• Helping translate our findings to patients, caregivers, clinicians and allied health professionals.

Our half-century legacy of groundbreaking research is bolstered by major, multi-year grants from national funding agencies and philanthropists, who recognize the depth of our expertise and the breadth of our partnerships.

We lead the world in researching diseases associated with aging. Read on to see where we can lead you.

Lawson is in the international forefront of medical imaging

Research that takes a deep look inside the human body and seeks to understand how tissues, bones, organs and cells work, and then guides next steps when the body doesn’t work as it should.

At Lawson, we see things more clearly than anyone.

Lawson leads medical and imaging research. Learn more:

We’re home to a host of Canadian and world firsts that have resulted in new pathways of diagnosis, treatment and care.

We’re recognized as pioneers in molecular imaging: a virtual alphabet of MRIs, PET scans, CT scans and more.

With technologies that also include our state-of-the-art cyclotron, we keep pushing the boundaries of these technologies so that soon we hope to test treatments with the same pinpoint precision and technology we use for imaging. This is a new and exciting field called theranostics, and it offers the very real possibility of a magic bullet to eradicate some cancers.

Our award-winning scientists, trainees and staff share their discoveries to improve patient lives locally and around the world.

Lawson is a global leader in imaging research. Read on to see where it can lead you.

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The human cost of mental illness is incalculable. So, too, the rewards of mental health research and innovation.

Lawson experts take a science-based, people-driven and systems-focused approach to building, restoring and maintaining the mental health of individuals and communities.

Lawson leads mental health research. Learn more:

Always curious and always innovating, we search for answers to persistent mental disorders experienced by youth across the life span to older adults through neuroscience, interdisciplinary clinical practice, pharmacology, psychotherapy, neurostimulation and novel therapeutics, digital; technology, partnerships and policy change.

For some of our researchers, it’s about discovering how best to create a more effective mental health system for youth youth mental health. For others, it’s about tackling mental illness when it intersects with addiction, developmental disorders, trauma or homelessness. For others, it means developing better ways to heal people in forensic mental health settings.

And always, we’re driven to ensure our research findings can be translated to better health for all.

Our partnerships have unique depth and breadth; our expertise is renowned and sought out throughout Canada.

Lawson leads mental health research. Read on to discover where it will lead you.

Researchers at Lawson are propelled by the people who will benefit from the best in complex rehabilitative science.

One in 10 Canadians has a mobility disability – and we’re laser-focused on discovering how to help people whose lives have been upended by spinal cord injuries, stroke, brain injuries, chronic pain, accidents, falls, trauma or degenerative disease.

Situated at the Gray Centre for Mobility and Activity within St. Joseph’s Health Care London’s Parkwood Institute, the region’s largest provider of rehabilitation and recovery health, we bring our research into practice using all the resources a health institute and teaching hospital can offer together.

We share our innovations with the world – and we share the world’s research too, as we’ve created and curated the biggest database of international research on stroke, traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injuries.

Lawson mobility researchers comprise one of the largest and most accomplished teams in the country: including a research chair, established world-class scientists, emerging researchers, dozens of trainees and more than 100 students.

Our work helps people around the world lead active and healthy lives. Read on to discover where it will lead you. 

Lawson leads mobility and activity research: