(left to right) Patrick Budylowski, Ashley Campbell, Julien Couture-Senecal, James Zhu March 14, 2025 By Sunitha Chari Today the University of Toronto’s Emerging & Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) announced the winners of the 2025 Future Leaders Prizes. The...
EPIC launches Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Rapid Research Response to inform and support comprehensive influenza pandemic preparedness
(Left to right): Michael Norris, Samira Mubareka, Sharon Walmsley, Vanessa Allen and Beate Sander January 30, 2025 By Sunitha Chari The University of Toronto’s Emerging & Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) has launched a Rapid Research Response to address the...
EPIC welcomes the third cohort of the Doctoral Awards recipients
Top row (left to right): Shana Alexander, Omri Arbiv, Yami Ommar Arizmendi Cardenas, Ali Barzegar Khanghah, Justin Callahan, Deepa Chaphekar. Second row (left to right): Yu Ying Fan, Mohammadamir Ghasemian Moghaddam, Sumiha Karunagaran, Pranamika Khayargoli, Dongyeob...
New funding furthers AI-driven public health projects in the Global South
Jude Kong is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to improve public health in communities in the Global South November 22, 2024 By Ishani Nath There were no hospitals in the small village where assistant professor Jude Kong of the Dalla Lana...
U of T postdoctoral fellow receives funding to develop portable device to produce vaccines
Mohammad Simchi is developing a computer-sized automated device (shown right) that can make vaccines at the point-of-need. September 9, 2024 By Betty Zou An innovative and cross-disciplinary project aimed at tackling the challenges of global vaccine distribution is...
EPIC announces recipients of inaugural Pandemic Response and Resiliency Awards
Clockwise from top left: Archchun Ariyarajah, Baweleta Isho, Vanessa Li, Kuganya Nirmalarajah, Jacqueline Watt, Maxine Ty, Alison Simmons and Reuben Samson July 31, 2024 By Betty Zou Eight graduate students are being recognized for their outstanding contributions to...
EPIC announces recipients of the 2024 New Connections Grants
(l-r) Kathryn Rozen-Gagnon, Haissi Cui, Bowen Li, Jun Liu July 23, 2024 By Betty Zou Two new cross-disciplinary collaborations are getting off the ground thanks to New Connections Grants from the Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium. The grants, worth $100,000...
EPIC announces recipients of 2024 Ignite Grants
Clockwise from top left: Aereas Aung, Michael Fralick, Rob Kozak, Allison McGeer, Beate Sander, Shaun Morris, Mario Ostrowski, William Navarre June 20, 2024 By Betty Zou Eight projects tackling emerging and existing infectious threats are getting a kick-start with...
Building sustainability for prescribed safer supply programs to improve access to HIV and hepatitis C care
June 18, 2024 By Betty Zou In 2015, Michelle Olding moved to Vancouver to start a new job as a research project coordinator with the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Armed with her newly minted master’s degree in public health from the University of...
Collaborative $19 million initiative aims to strengthen Canada’s pandemic response
Anne-Claude Gingras (left) and Jennie Johnstone. Photo credit: Sinai Health May 7, 2024 By Jovana Drinjakovic As we navigate the aftermath of COVID-19, the inevitability of another pandemic looms over us — it’s a matter of when, not if. Recognising this urgency, the...
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