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Jump Start Workshop: How to do market research and why this is important?

Kicking off 2022, we would like to invite you to PRiME's Jump Start Market Research Workshop in Precision Medicine, taking place on Thursday, January 20th. The goal of PRiME's Jump Start: Early-Stage Technology Development in Precision Medicine" Workshop Series is to provide a deep dive into all steps in development of pre-clinical drugs, devices and […]

PRiME Trainees Awarded Industry-Partnered Fellowships

22 November 2021

Dr. Louis-Philippe Picard (left), a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Scott Prosser’s lab, and Dr. Jiaxi Peng (right), a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Aaron Wheeler’s lab, are recipients of the PRiME Industry-Partnered Fellowship Program. The PRiME research community is working on cutting edge technologies to advance drug discovery and therapeutic development. Partnerships and internships for trainees […]

PRiME 3rd Annual Symposium

12 October 2021

PRiME will be holding its 3rd Annual Symposium virtually on October 25th, 2021. This year's agenda includes exceptional keynote speakers from industry and academia and will also feature the diverse expertise of four new PRiME Faculty members. Additionally, Lightning Talks from our 2021 PRiME Fellows and an Innovation Showcase of technology platforms and companies will […]

2021 PRiME Fellows Announced

1 September 2021

PRiME Fellows represent the next generation of scientific leaders, poised to tackle some of the biggest challenges in health and disease. The 2021 cohort of awardees are exceptional trainees working on projects that combine expertise across the four PRiME Faculties, applying molecular biology, genomics, computational biology, and bioengineering towards diagnostic and therapeutic solutions. This year, […]

PRiME Connaught Global Challenge Series: Symposium with ETH Zurich

PRiME is hosting the third installment of the Connaught Global Challenge Series introducing our partnership with ETH Zurich. This event will feature investigators from both PRiME and ETH Zurich who are working at the forefront of disease-in-a-dish/on-a-chip models and engineering molecular structure for imaging. Registration for this event is required and additional information along with […]

PRiME and Medicine By Design Co-Host the Cell and Gene Therapies Innovations Showcase

Cell and gene therapies have significant potential to treat the most debilitating of chronic diseases, and will be hugely transformative for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. In July, PRiME partnered with Medicine by Design to host a virtual Cell and Gene Therapies Innovation Showcase, highlighting novel strategies and enabling technologies poised to advance the field. […]

2019 PRiME Fellows honoured with external funding awards

The PRiME Fellowships have consistently been awarded to an exceptional group of talented, young scientists working on bold interdisciplinary ideas since 2019. It is no surprise that two of these researchers, Anastasia Korolj and Rony Chidiac, have recently been honoured with additional accolades, recognizing their hard work and significant contribution to their respective fields of […]

The PRiME TCAI Team Makes Significant Progress on COVID-19 Research

In April 2020, the University of Toronto was able to quickly mobilize almost $9M through the Toronto COVID-19 Action Fund (TCAI) to support over 30 high impact research projects in the fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the members of PRiME’s Task Force on Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics for COVID-19 were among the […]

PRiME announces a Pan-Canadian Biomedical Innovation Showcase featuring research and industry leaders

25 January 2021

2020 was an unprecedented year – a global pandemic stopped the world in its tracks. In 2021, we begin our recovery as an economy and a society as a worldwide vaccination effort is rolled out. The importance of biomedical innovation and the biotech sector has never been more evident: the vaccine needed to reopen our […]

PRiME Connaught Global Challenge Series: Symposium with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

20 January 2021

Following the success of last December’s PRiME-UCSF joint symposium, PRiME is hosting the second instalment of the Connaught Global Challenge Series introducing our partnership with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI). This will be a three-part event, featuring investigators from both UofT and HUJI who are working at the forefront of protein engineering, molecular diagnostics, […]

PRiME researchers partner with TIAP and Amgen Inc. for biomanufacturing-focused project

8 December 2020

PRiME Director, Dr. Shana Kelley, together with Drs. Jason Moffat and Stephane Angers, has secured investment from the TIAP-Amgen partnership program to test a high-throughput cell-screening device that can enable the engineering of cells with superior antibody bioproduction capabilities. This collaboration is one of 3 projects recently announced under a strategic partnership between Amgen Inc. […]

PRiME Connaught Global Challenge Series: Global Perspectives to Advance Precision Medicine

12 November 2020

To kick-off PRiME’s new global partnerships program funded by the Connaught Global Challenge Fund, we are launching the Connaught Global Challenge Series which will feature a virtual mini-symposium with each of our four partner institutions. Opening the series next month is a two-day session with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), featuring investigators from […]

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