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Medicine by Design’s Pivotal Experiment Fund invests $1 million in four research teams to bridge the “valley of death” funding gap
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
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
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 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
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
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 […]
Medicine by Design-funded scientists discover a new stem cell property that could enhance life-saving blood stem cell transplants
By Paul Fraumeni|May 14th, 2021| New research from a team of University Health Network (UHN) stem cell scientists has demonstrated that blood stem cells possess a previously undescribed property that they term latency. Latency governs whether a stem cell quickly kicks into action during a transplant or whether it is delayed in getting activated. When […]
To speed discoveries, U of T lab launches free library of virtual, AI-calculated organic compounds
Alán Aspuru-Guzik’s research group has launched an open-access tool, Kraken, that promises to accelerate the discovery of new chemical reactions that underpin the development of everything from smartphones to life-saving drugs.
U of T Acceleration Consortium to use AI to develop advanced materials
U of T is launching a new global consortium — the Acceleration Consortium — dedicated to using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the design and discovery of advanced materials that could revolutionize a range of industries – from renewable energy and biomedicine to communication technology. The initiative will be led by led by Alán Aspuru-Guzik, a professor in the departments of chemistry and computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences.
SRI and the Rockefeller Foundation partner on building tangible solutions to the challenge of AI governance
Innovating AI Governance: Bold Action and Novel Approaches is an ongoing series of workshops developed by the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society in collaboration with the Rockefeller Foundation. MAR 25, 2021 BY JOVANA JANKOVIC AI and related technologies are increasingly being implemented in all aspects of society, from healthcare to marketing, retail, robotics, financial and […]
Pivotal Experiment Fund to accelerate Medicine by Design-funded research toward impact
By Julie Crljen|February 9th, 2021|Pivotal Experiment Fund to accelerate Medicine by Design-funded research toward impact - Medicine by Design (utoronto.ca) The gap between early-stage research funding and venture investment means some promising advances in regenerative medicine may never reach the patients who need them. Medicine by Design plans to change that with the launch of its […]