Donnelly in the Media
A selection of earned media stories mentioning the Centre and its researchers
July 2022
COVID-19 immunity research by Donnelly Centre investigator Igor Stagljar was widely featured in the media as Canada entered a new wave driven by Omicron variants:
- Older antibodies no longer effective - CTV News (video)
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If you got COVID early this year, you can get reinfected now, U of T study finds - Toronto Star
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What COVID-19 health advice can Canadians follow for the summer surge that’s upon us? - The Globe and Mail
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U of T research team develops new test to detect immunity against COVID-19 variants - CityNews
Researchers in Professor Derek van der Kooy's lab solved a long-standing mystery of how worms tell different smells apart:
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Worms Have the Ability to Identify Thousands of Different Smells; Scientists Discover Mystery Behind This Sniffing Skill - The Science Times
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Thousands of Different Scents – Scientists Solve a 30-Year-Old Mystery - SciTech Daily
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Team Solves 30-Year-Old Odor Mystery that May Affect Human Brains - Laboratory Equipment
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Forscher lüften 30 Jahre altes Geheimnis der Geruchsveränderung bei Würmern - Nach Welt
June 2022
Donnelly Centre investigator Cindi Morshead explains how her research could help stroke sufferers:
- Research helping stroke patients - CTV News (video)
- How cell therapies can help with brain injuries - CP24 (video)
March 2022
University Professor and Donnelly Centre investigator Molly Shoichet is featured in Canadian Living on International Women's Day:
- Interview With Molly Shoichet, Woman Of Science - Canadian Living
January 2022
Donnelly Centre investigator Cindi Morshead discusses her collaborative research that seeks to spur the brain to repair itself after a stroke injury:
December 2021
Donnelly Centre investigator Philip Kim's research on mirror-image peptides with anti-viral potential is featured in the press:
November 2021
Donnelly Centre investigator Michael Sefton's diabetes research is featured in:
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100 years since insulin discovery, Canadian scientists push for new diabetes treatments - Global News
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100 years after insulin treatment was invented, researchers hope to ditch needles once and for all - Quirks and Quarks, CBC
The rapid "firefly" antibody test for COVID-19 developed in Professor Igor Stagljar's lab is featured in the Toronto Star:
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I wonder if I had COVID when I was sick in January 2020. Why widespread antibody testing can’t come soon enough for my family - Toronto Star
Alumni PhD student and science communicator Samantha Yammine and AI expert and Professor Brendan Frey are named among the 50 most influential Torontonians of 2021 by the Toronto Life magazine:
- The Influentials 2021 - Toronto Life
March 2021
A "firefly test" for measuring the level of coronavirus antibodies in blood and developed by Donnelly Centre investigator Igor Stagljar and his team has been featured in the news:
- ‘Firefly’ test aims to shed light on COVID-19 vaccine endurance - The Globe and Mail
- Toronto researchers develop "firefly method to measure COVID-19 immunity - CityNews
- Firefly’ test aims to shed light on COVID-19 vaccine endurance - Rogers radio
- Low-Cost Pinprick Test Measures COVID-19 Immunity in Under One Hour - Technology Networks
- Štagljar: Napravili smo brži, točniji i jeftiniji test za koronavirus - IndexHR (Croatian)
February 2021
University Professor and Donnelly Centre investigator Molly Shoichet talked to The Globe and Mail about her startup company AmacaThera planing human trials of an engineered injectable gel for postsurgery pain treatment:
- Out of the lab, into the marketplace: How one of Canada’s most celebrated scientists, Molly Shoichet, is bringing her key discovery to market - The Globe and Mail
Donnelly Centre investigator Tim Hughes and his team have discovered that the African coelacanth evolved dozens of new genes in its recent evolutionary history from traveling DNA passed on from other species:
- African coelacanth fish evolved dozens of new genes just 10M years ago - United Press International
- Coelacanths Are Not ‘Living Fossils,’ New Study Shows - SciNews
- Bizarre Coelacanth Hasn't Spent 65 Million Years Unchanged After All, Its Genome Reveals - Science Alert
- Il celacanto: un “fossile vivente” che continua a evolversi - Greenreport.it (Italian)
- Le cœlacanthe, un fossile vivant qui évolue toujours - Futura Sciences (French)
- El celacanto no es un fósil viviente pese a su apariencia - europapress (Spanish)
- Considerado "fóssil vivo", raro peixe ganhou 62 genes de outras espécies - Galileu (Portuguese)
- Живое ископаемое — латимерия — оказалось не совсем ископаемым - Naked Science (Russian)
January 2021
An interdisciplinary team of Toronto researchers led by Donnelly Centre investigator Gary Bader has found that brain tumour formation might be linked to tissue healing following an injury:
- Listen to Prof Bader talk about this research on SuperHumanRadio.
- New Clues to How Cancers Originate in the Brain - U.S.News
- Brain Injury Healing Itself May Result in an Unwanted Tumor, Finds New Study - News18
- New Information May Help Treat Brain Cancer - NewsMax
- Tissue Healing linked with brain cancer - Asian News International (newswire)
- How brain inflammation and healing is pointing to new glioblastoma targets - Fierce Biotech
- Hirnverletzungen können Tumorbildung anregen - wissenschaft.de (German)