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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 […]

PRiME Featured at the Globe and Mail Biotech Innovation Summit

26 November 2019

On November 14th, the Globe and Mail hosted the Biomedical Innovation Summit, sponsored by Novo Nordisk. The half-day event focused on how to grow Canada’s strengths in the biomedical sector and included keynote presentations from Jason Field, President & CEO of Life Sciences Ontario (LSO) and Michael Hyatt, a technology investor and entrepreneur. PRiME’s Director, […]

PRiME's first Research Retreat

14 November 2019

As one can imagine, with over 50 faculty members and close to 100 trainees in our community, getting everyone together is not easy. However, on November 5th, we had an impressive turnout at our first internal research retreat. It was encouraging to see this engagement from our community, especially with several scientific conferences, upcoming grant […]

PRiME Faculty members granted Team Project Award from Medicine by Design

11 October 2019

A team of PRiME faculty members have been awarded $3.6M by the University of Toronto’s Medicine by Design initiative which supports a portfolio of multi-disciplinary team projects focused on accelerating the field of regenerative medicine. The Team Project Award will fund research aimed at targeting bottlenecks in mesoderm differentiation for regenerative therapies. Led by PRiME […]

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