From Left: Cianne Coutinho, Md Ramim Tanver Rahman, Blair Reid and Paige Vowels 31 March 2026 By Aideen Teeling From googly-eyed germs and Minecraft heroes to bacteria braving antibiotic snowstorms, university students across Canada got creative in explaining a...
“They are like nanobot police officers.”: Meet the researchers using viruses to treat patients with antibiotic resistant bacterial infections
At the October 2025 reception for the U of T Temerty Medicine Alumni Impact Award, Steffanie Strathdee — an award recipient — is pictured with Greg German and a fellow guest, celebrating her outstanding dedication to health care, research and education. 27 February...
Newly identified bacterial defence systems open avenues for treating drug resistant infections
Landon Getz (left) and Sam Fairburn February 25, 2025 By Sunitha Chari University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against viral infections. Their findings uncover a new hotspot in the bacterial genome for...
From surveillance to control: U of T researchers are tackling the AMR problem from all angles
From left: Véronique Taylor, Duncan Carruthers-Lay, Marcus Dillon, Viplav Agarwal, Michael Fralick November 28, 2024 By Sunitha Chari As communities around the world marked World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness Week from November 18 to 24, 2024 we shine the...
How worried should I be about drug-resistant fungi? An expert Q&A with Leah Cowen and Jennie Johnstone
Leah Cowen (left) and Jennie Johnstone November 20, 2023 By Betty Zou We may not need to worry about the zombie fungus in the hit HBO television series The Last of Us but there is another real-life fungal pathogen that we should be paying close attention to. Candida...
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