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Start-ups founded by PRiME members attract major pharmaceutical interest

Start-up companies co-founded by PRiME faculty members, Sachdev Sidhu and Jason Moffat, have garnered the attention of major pharmaceutical partners, with several acquisitions transpiring over the last month. Earlier this week, Gilead Sciences purchased a stake in Pionyr Immunotherapeutics for $275M to access its Myeloid TuningTM approach to cancer immunotherapies. The technology, which is based […]

Join PRiME in the 40th Anniversary of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope

In celebration of the extraordinary life of Terry Fox and the 40th anniversary of his Marathon of Hope, the PRiME team will be participating in the virtual 2020 Terry Fox Run: One Day, Your Way on Sunday, September 20th, to raise much needed funds for cancer research. PRiME faculty members bring a diverse range of […]

PRiME COVID-19 Task Force holds its first mini-symposium

Following its launch at the end of March, members of the PRiME COVID-19 Task Force on Advanced Diagnostics and New Therapeutics have been actively working on projects for novel diagnostics and therapeutics to help combat the pandemic here in Canada. While we couldn’t provide an in-person forum to hear about the progress being made, we […]

PRiME announces a COVID-19 Task Force on Advanced Diagnostics and New Therapeutics

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, pharmaceutical sciences, and […]

PRiME Faculty Awarded Research Funding to Address COVID-19

PRiME faculty members Dev Sidhu and Keith Pardee are among the select researchers awarded federal grant funding to address the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. The two projects highlight the novel treatments and diagnostics being developed by researchers within the PRiME community. In an emergency call for applications, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), in […]

PRiME's First Trainee Collaboration Event

28 February 2020

View fullsize PRiME’s Director, Shana Kelley, often gets asked by students how ideas behind her many collaborations started and believes that informal brainstorming with people from other fields is key. While PRiME’s cross-disciplinary membership brings together an ideal community for these types of conversations, we wanted to give our trainees a focused opportunity to brainstorm […]

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