December 16, 2024 By Sunitha Chari Coinciding with the World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Week, the Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) once again co-hosted the third annual AMR Symposium on November 19 and 20 empowered by bioMérieux Canada and...
How do researchers use artificial intelligence (AI) to predict and prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases? How are advances in AI and machine learning (ML) algorithms improving healthcare systems and how can researchers and clinicians harness the power of AI to...
December 7, 2023 By Betty Zou The Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium, along with partners bioMérieux Canada, the AMR – One Health Consortium and the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada (AMMI Canada), recently co-hosted the second...
A panel of experts called for sustained funding investments, stronger ready-to-use infrastructure and improved communications to help Canada break the cycle of panic and neglect around infectious diseases. These themes emerged from a discussion at the first annual Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium symposium held in mid-October. The panelists included Leah Cowen, vice-president, research and innovation, and strategic initiatives at the University of Toronto, Marisa Creatore, executive director of the Centre for Research on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and U of T President Emeritus David Naylor.
How is climate change shifting and accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world? What are some of the impacts on societies, economics, and human and ecological health? These were some of the topics that we wanted to address through the public speaker series we cohosted earlier this year with Climate Positive Energy and the Institute for Pandemics, two other Institutional Strategic Initiatives at the University of Toronto.
Some of the trainee speakers at the 2023 Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Research Day. (Back row: l-r) James Pollock, Cynthia Guo (Middle row: l-r) Krithika Muthuraman, Derek Tsang, Jonathon Kotwa, Priyal Shah, Natalie Au, Purav Guptal (Front row) Emma Lash June...
On November 23, the University of Toronto’s Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) partnered with diagnostics industry leader bioMérieux Canada to jointly host a research symposium on Canadian perspectives on antimicrobial resistance: where we are now and looking ahead.
On Nov. 16, EPIC co-hosted a breakfast roundtable honouring Lorne Tyrrell, winner of the 2021 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research. The roundtable discussion focused on the future of infectious diseases research and innovation in Canada and what lessons could be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic as we move forward.
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