In the Media 2014
December 2014
- Ben Blencowe's research on snippets of genes featured as:
- Tiny gene fragments linked to altered brain development in autism, U of T scientists say - Toronto Star
- Toronto scientists discover largely overlooked ‘microexons’ serve important role in neurological disorders - London Free Press
- Brendan Frey's deep-learning computer system covered in:
- Unlocking DNA secrets with a Canadian genome search engine - The Globe and Mail
- Machine Intelligence Cracks Genetic Controls - Wired Magazine
- The Dark Corners of Our DNA Hold Clues about Disease - Scientific American
- A computer model to understand the genetic basis of disease - The Varsity
- Dev Sidhu and Jason Moffat's exciting new venture partnership covered as War chest of discoveries seeds Toronto’s Northern Biologics - The Globe and Mail
- The next big fronteer in genetics - Brenda Andrews in EGDE's Connaught issue
November 2014
- Dev Sidhu launches the Centre for the Commercialization of Antibodies and Biologics
- New Centre Will Deliver New Treatments for Cancer Patients - Medicine News
- This is Where We’ll Find Cures Today’s Doctors Can’t Even Imagine - U of T Medicine Magazine
- Fritz Roth and team are writing the Genetic Instruction Manual - Medicine News
- Protein Project Could Help Expose Cancer’s Causes - Scientific Amercian
- Illuminating the Interactome - The Scientist
- Michael Sefton is named a Member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies, one of the highest honors in health and medicine
- Knowledge Exchange - The Donnelly Centre, the Department of Molecular Genetics and SickKids celebrate international collaboration with the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology - Medicine News
- Grand Challenges Canada funds the Wheeler lab's $1 paper detection system for measels and rubella diagnostics - Engineering News
October 2014
- The Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Toronto, Mr. Fang Li, visited the Donnelly Centre. - Medicine News
- The Honorable Ed Holder, Minister of State for Science and Technology, visited the Donnelly Centre and was given a tour of the Toronto Recombinant Antibody Center.
September 2014
- Molly Shoichet to lead U of T’s science and engineering engagement activities - U of T News
- Peter Zandstra named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - U of T Engineering News
- Peter Zandstra's collaborative work on cord blood expansion featured in CTV News.
- Amy Caudy and Adam Rosebrock announce collaboration with Agilent Technologies to develop gold-standard methods for metabolomics.
- Featured in Businessweek and Biospace.
August 2014
- Molly Shoichet Receives TERMIS Senior Scientist Award from the Tissue Engineering International and Regenerative Medicine Society Americas - Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry News
July 2014
- Gary Bader listed by Thomson Reuters among highly cited researchers in the world:
- Highly cited researchers - Thomson Reuters
- Examining Canada’s scientific footprint - The Globe and Mail
- Meet U of T scholars on Reuters list- U of T News
- Aaron Wheeler: Algae-on-a-chip - Chemistry World
- Lab on a chip technology developed in the Wheeler lab draws researchers from around the world - U of T News
- The Wheeler lab wins the McLean Award for its work in microfluidics - U of T Research and Innovation
- Derek van der Kooy's research featured as Seeing the Possibilities in Stem Cells - Medicine News
June 2014
- Terrence Donnelly named a Member of the Order of Canada for his philanthropic contributions to health care and medical research - U of T News
- Brenda Andrews receives $1 million to lead a project called "Connaught Network for Modeling and Mapping Complex Disease: addressing the global challenge to understand our personal genomes - U of T News
- Portable, fast, accurate test for cocaine developed by the Wheeler lab and collaborators - U of T News
- Read more in American Chemical Society.
- Aled Adwards is convincing drug companies to fund no-strings research. - U of T News
- U of T research centre shares gene discoveries to expedite development of cures - Toronto Star
- Molly Shoichet is granted the prestigious and distinguished rank of University Professor
- Medical research pioneer Molly Shoichet receives U of T's most distinguished rank - U of T News
May 2014
- Gary Bader contributed to "A draft Map of the Human Proteome" published in Nature.
- First drafts for human proteome catalogues - BBC News
- Molly Shoichet to lead U of T’s science and engineering engagement activities - U of T News
- CCRM Sits Down With... Molly Shoichet: Perspective on discovery and commercialization of new therapies and tools in regenerative medicine (video)
- Michael Sefton honoured with Gold Medal Award from Engineers Canada.
- Glowing Nanoparticles Make Mice Light Up - Warren Chan's research on Good Morning America
- The Nano Revolution: More than Human - Warren Chan's research featured on CBC's Nature of Things
April 2014
- Stiffness: a new piece of the breast cancer puzzle - U of T News on Penney Gilbert's research.
February 2014
January 2014
- Charlie Boone is awarded the Edward Novitzki Prize, from the Genetics Society of Amercia, which recognizes an extraordinary level of creativity and intellectual ingenuity in solving significant problems in genetics research.
- U of T Professor Honoured for Changing the Landscape of Genetics Research - Medicine News
- DNA-built nanoparticles safely target cancer tumours - Warren Chan's research in U of T News
- Nano-superstructures may bring safer chemo - ABC Science
- NSERC Presents 2 Minutes With Brendan Frey and Benjamin Blencowe (video)