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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 […]

The Second Annual PRiME Symposium

While the COVID-19 pandemic has kept us all physically apart, the need for the scientific community to convene and exchange knowledge and insight remains crucial for research advancement and innovation. To this regard, PRiME hosted its second annual symposium on October 13th, 2020 – virtually, this time around – with a stellar lineup representing the […]

PRiME awarded Connaught Global Challenge funding to expand global partnerships focused on next-generation precision medicine

The development of new precision medicine-focused approaches requires extensive collaboration and the integration of new technologies. The integration of expertise from across disciplines is essential to create new approaches for diagnosis and the identification of novel treatments from a more complete understanding of disease biology. As PRiME enters its second year as an Institutional Strategic […]

PRiME establishes a Trainee Advisory Committee

28 September 2020

With the 2020-2021 academic year underway, PRiME has convened an inaugural Trainee Advisory Committee with the goal of better integrating trainee perspectives into the development of new initiatives and programming to support our trainee community. Similar to PRiME’s Steering Committee, the Trainee Advisory Committee will have two representatives from each of the Faculties of Arts […]

Team PRiME at the 2020 Terry Fox Run: One Day, Your Way

25 September 2020

The 40th annual Marathon of Hope took place virtually on Sunday, September 20th to celebrate the remarkable Terry Fox and raise money to support cancer research. While we were not able to run together due to this year’s challenges related to COVID-19, members of the PRiME team laced up their running shoes to ensure that […]

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