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The people behind the research': Video series focuses on unique collaborations launching across U of T
December 7, 2021
November 29, 2021 - 'The people behind the research': Video series focuses on unique collaborations launching across U of T (utoronto.ca) Inequality, climate change, infectious diseases – these are just a few of the global problems that leading researchers at the University of Toronto are working to solve, says Christine Allen, associate vice-president and vice-provost, strategic […]
U of T’s Black Research Network to support Black scholarship and excellence
October 7, 2021
U of T’s Black Research Network to support Black scholarship and excellence (utoronto.ca) Scott Anderson Beth Coleman, an associate professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at U of T Mississauga, is the inaugural director of the Black Research Network (photo courtesy of Beth Coleman) A University of Toronto-wide initiative to support […]
Groundbreakers: U of T’s Data Sciences Institute to help researchers find answers to their biggest questions
September 16, 2021
September 16, 2021 Berton Woodward | Link to the original article. Researchers working with the multi-university CHIME radio telescope in B.C. are collaborating with experts at U of T's Data Sciences Institute to solve computational and processing problems (featured photo courtesy of the Chime Collaboration) When University of Toronto astronomer Bryan Gaensler looks up at the night sky, […]
Groundbreakers: U of T initiative brings together experts to address major societal issues
September 3, 2021
September 02, 2021 Patchen Barss Goldie Nejat envisions a world where growing old is improved by robots that care. The Canada Research Chair in Robots for Society and professor of mechanical engineering in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering is an expert in assistive robotics – machines that provide care, interventions and even companionship for long-term […]
U of T launches Data Sciences Institute to harness global data revolution
September 1, 2021
September 1, 2021 by A&S News From health care, economics and astrophysics to climate change, digital humanities and the promise of smart cities, the world is in the midst of a data revolution. Complex, massive and unique data sets are being generated and analysed across a broad spectrum of disciplines at an unprecedented rate. To capitalize […]
On-the-Land Indigenous Education Program
August 26, 2021
September 15 - September 17 FREE Open to TRANSFORM HF trainees, investigators, patients and community partners, this unique three-day On-the-Land Indigenous Education program will enhance culturally-safe, strengths-based and healing-informed clinical and research practices. Dr. Angela Mashford-Pringle and Elders and Knowledge Keepers will lead TRANSFORM HF members in conversations that centre the Land-as-teacher, Indigenous Land-based pedagogies, and the […]
Medicine by Design’s Pivotal Experiment Fund invests $1 million in four research teams to bridge the “valley of death” funding gap
August 11, 2021
By Julie Crljen|August 9th, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: cardiac, Cindi Morshead, EVLP, liver disease, lung, organ transplantation, Pivotal Experiment Fund, Shaf Keshavjee, stroke, team projects, translation The four researchers leading teams that are sharing $1 million in funding through the Pivotal Experiment Fund. Left to right: Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng, associate professor at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto; Dr. Shaf Keshavjee, surgeon-in-chief at UHN’s Sprott Department of Surgery and director […]
Venture formed in the Medicine by Design community, Liberum, aims to make desktop protein manufacturing a reality
July 13, 2021
By Julie Crljen|June 29th, 2021| Members of the Liberum Team. Chris Leichthammer, lab manager (left), Aidan Tinafar, co-founder and CEO (centre) and Alex Klenov, chief technology officer (right). (Absent: Keith Pardee, co-founder and strategic advisor, and assistant professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto.) Proteins are the building blocks of life, and they serve numerous crucial […]
U of T Robotics 2021 Autonomous Vehicals Workshop
June 15, 2021
Come and network with Toronto's growing AV ecosystem. Join us on June 15 and June 16 for the 2021 Autonomous Vehicles Workshop -- a two-day colloquium featuring the latest in Canada's cutting edge autonomous vehicle technology. Learn about recent advances in AV research from University of Toronto Robotics Institute faculty and their industry partners. See what UofT's top […]
U OF T’S NEW PRECISION MEDICINE PROGRAM OFFERS TRAINING IN CROSS-DISCIPLINARY SCIENCE
June 15, 2021
JUNE 10, 2021 4:05PM A new graduate education program at the University of Toronto will provide PhD students with advanced education in interdisciplinary biomedical research. The Collaborative Specialization in Next-Generation Precision Medicine opened for enrolment this week and will offer courses this fall at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Arts & Science and […]
ABSOLUTELY INTERDISCIPLINARY
May 23, 2021
An academic conference hosted by the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto. about absolutely interdisciplinary Understanding the capacities and limitations of complex new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) calls for more than just a technical perspective. Absolutely Interdisciplinary convenes researchers from across disciplines to build new, interdisciplinary approaches to […]
U of T Mississauga researcher leads new Critical Digital Humanities Initiative
May 17, 2021
Imagine being able to listen to Kimberly Nixon describe, in her own words, being turned away as a volunteer at a Vancouver rape crisis centre because of her status as a trans woman. Or having an app to report on corporate pollution near and on Indigenous lands in Canada’s North. Elspeth Brown The University of Toronto’s Elspeth […]