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Montreal Gazette - Trail-blazing collaboration wasn't born in a laboratory

Published: 16 January 2011

"Two scientists walk into a bar ..." It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but when Moshe Szyf and Michael Meaney met in Madrid, instead of a rotten punchline, they wound up with an intense and immensely productive collaboration that is changing the way scientists think about mental illness.

Though both were employed by Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾, Meaney and Szyf didn't really know each other before they chatted about their work over beer at a research retreat they were attending. Each had to cross the Atlantic to meet the other Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ scientist, they joke.

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