September 24, 2026 By Megan Fleming When most people hear "human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine," they picture school clinics, teenage girls and cervical cancer prevention. Pranamika Khayargoli, a 2025 Emerging Pathogens & Infectious Diseases Consortium (EPIC)...
2026 EPIC Inspire Summer students alongside their mentors September 17, 2026 By Megan Fleming Every summer, the Emerging Pathogens and Infectious Diseases Consortium (EPIC) opens its network to a group of undergraduate researchers through the Inspire Summer...
Landon Getz (left) and Amy Qian (right) 27 August 2026 By Megan Fleming A University of Toronto lab has discovered that one of biology’s oldest housekeeping enzymes has a hidden second job. Every living cell — bacterial, viral, or human — carries a small group of...
NSERC Indigenous Student Ambassador Shilo Chislett (ChemE MEng student) in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. (Photo by Shilo Chislett) 7 August 2026 By ChemE Communications This article was originally posted on the University of Toronto Engineering News website. For Shilo...
Kuganya Nirmalarajah at her convocation ceremony 9 June 2026 By Eva Schaessens This story was originally published on the Institute of Health Emergencies and Pandemics (IHEP) website. This June, thousands of University of Toronto (U of T) students will cross the...
Haley Morris received a competitive EPIC doctoral award to support her thesis research developing predictive models for the habitat expansion of parasitic worms in a warming climate 8 May 2026 By EEB Newsroom This article was originally posted on the Department of...
From left: Mary Addo, Shilo Chislett and Jezreel Sol-Edeigba 19 January 2026 By Betty Zou Over the past three years, the Emerging and Pandemics Infections Consortium’s Inspire Summer Studentship program has supported 19 Black and Indigenous undergraduate students in...
Anna Waldmann and John Brumell 10 November 2025 By Aideen Teeling Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have discovered that a host protein linked to early onset Parkinson’s disease promotes the spread of Salmonella bacteria between cells. Upon...
Research associate Véronique Taylor (left) and professor Karen Maxwell August 12, 2025 By Betty Zou In a new study published in Nature, University of Toronto researchers have discovered how bacterial viruses protect their offspring to maximize...
Sumiha Karunagaran (left) is investigating how immune cells in the pleural cavity (right- shown in pink) respond to bacterial infections of the lungs April 17, 2025 By Sunitha Chari Lung transplant recipients are on lifelong immunosuppressant drugs to reduce their...
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