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Announcing the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative!
With an emphasis on anti-racist, feminist, queer, and decolonial scholarship and research, the CDHI will bridge the humanities’ emphasis on power and culture with the tools and analysis of digital technology to forge a new, generative paradigm of critical humanities scholarship.
Medicine by Design-funded researchers develop cell injection technique that could help reverse vision loss
University Professor Molly Shoichet. (Photo by Neil Ta) Story from: https://mbd.utoronto.ca/news/medicine-by-design-funded-researchers-develop-cell-injection-technique-that-could-help-reverse-vision-loss/ By Tyler Irving|August 19th, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: cell therapy, cycle 2, Molly Shoichet, team projects, vision Through research partially funded by Medicine by Design, U of T Engineering researchers have developed a new method of injecting healthy cells into damaged eyes. The technique could point […]
Critical planning for regenerative medicine therapies needs to happen now to ensure smooth adoption into health system
Article from: https://mbd.utoronto.ca/news/critical-planning-for-regenerative-medicine-therapies-needs-to-happen-now-to-ensure-smooth-adoption-into-health-system-paper-urges/ Regenerative medicine holds the potential to revolutionize health care, but critical work needs to be done now to ensure these new therapies will be safe, effective, affordable, and widely available to patients who need them. That is one of the key conclusions of a paper published online today in Cell & Gene Therapy Insights that […]
Dr. Kristin Cleverley awarded Institutional Strategic Initiatives funding for “Mental Health for Students and Youth” research
Article from: https://bloomberg.nursing.utoronto.ca/uncategorized/dr-kristin-cleverley-awarded-institutional-strategic-initiatives-funding-for-mental-health-for-students-and-youth-research/ Dr. Kristin Cleverley has been awarded one year of Institutional Strategic Initiatives (ISI) funding from the University of Toronto (U of T) to develop an ISI Development & Launch proposal for a research initiative on “Mental Health for Students and Youth”. This initiative will establish a unique network focused on research excellence […]
Medicine by Design launches Translation Talks
Article from https://mbd.utoronto.ca/news By Ann Perry|June 16th, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: commercialization, events, Summer by Design, Translation Talks Translation Talks is a weekly webinar series for trainees that will cover key concepts in translation and commercialization of regenerative medicine. (Photo by Neil Ta) Translating research discoveries into new products, therapies or companies isn’t something most graduate programs […]
PRiME announces a COVID-19 Task Force on Advanced Diagnostics and New Therapeutics
Article from https://www.prime.utoronto.ca/news As the global community responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, PRiME is convening its leading researchers to form a COVID-19 Task Force on Advanced Diagnostics and New Therapeutics to develop an arsenal of breakthroughs to fight COVID-19 and future pandemics. UofT researchers who are leading experts in disease biology, medicinal chemistry, device engineering, […]
Medicine by Design announces four new team projects
Medicine by Design is expanding its regenerative medicine research portfolio with the addition of four multi-disciplinary, multi-institution projects that will lead to advances in the understanding and treatment of cardiovascular and lung diseases, diabetes and neurological disorders.
Researchers from U of T, affiliated hospitals form research consortium to study risks and benefits of cannabis
The Toronto Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research Consortium (TC3) was launched Thursday at a conference of researchers, government officials, policy-makers and industry representatives. TC3 combines the research muscle of the university with a dozen academic hospitals. “There is a huge research engine at U of T,” said Ruth Ross, a professor and chair of the Faculty of Medicine’s pharmacology and toxicology department and a member of the TC3 steering committee.
Cannabis Innovation Summit to officially launch U of T-led research consortium
Researchers from UofT and its affiliated hospitals will meet this week at the Cannabis Innovation Summit to launch TC3 (Toronto Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research Consortium — a partnership focused on the health effects of cannabis and related compounds.