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Advancing discovery, medicine and health

The Donnelly Centre is a global research hub where scientists from diverse fields explore the power of genomic technology to advance discovery, medicine and health.
Apr 27, 2026
The Donnelly Centre has named molecular geneticist and RNA biologist Syed Nabeel Haider Shah as this year’s Charles H. Best Fellow. Currently working with the Blencowe Lab, Nabeel-Shah’s research trajectory has evolved toward a relatively underexplored area: he’s investigating how gene regulation changes in an individual over time. 
Apr 8, 2026
The Krause Lab has discovered a new potential treatment avenue for debilitating conditions like Inflammatory Bowel Disease. By investigating one of the main controllers of lipid storage in the human body, the researchers identified a small molecule produced by gut microbes that protects against colon inflammation.
Mar 13, 2026
When faced with a mountain of gene expression data, reducing the computational complexity for analyzing a cell’s RNA transcripts is an invaluable development. Researchers at the Bader Lab in the Donnelly Centre have developed an algorithm they call FLASH-MM, which allows the analysis of individual cell transcriptomes to take minutes rather than days.