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...
Fighting malaria with math: why one U of T student is studying parasite evolution and what it could mean
April 25, 2024 By Betty Zou This World Malaria Day, a University of Toronto PhD student is shedding light on a poorly understood phenomenon that could impact vaccination strategies for malaria and other infectious diseases. The phenomenon, called vaccine-driven...
Four U of T PhD graduates recognized as Future Leaders in infectious disease by the Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium
(l-r) Eric Armstrong, Jonathan Burnie, Catharine Chambers, Pailin Chiaranunt March 19, 2024 By Betty Zou The Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium announced today the winners of the 2024 Future Leaders Prizes. The $5,000 cash prizes celebrate the most...
Documenting COVID-19’s impact on people living with HIV
February 20, 2024 By Betty Zou Saeedeh Moayedi-Nia first witnessed inequities in health care access when, as a nursing student in Iran, she volunteered with a children’s rights group helping Afghan child refugees. Because many of the children didn’t have birth...
Harnessing synthetic biology to create low-cost diagnostics and improve infectious disease surveillance
EPIC Doctoral Award recipient Justin Vigar is using synthetic biology to develop rapid, low-cost diagnostic tools to combat infectious diseases. He and his lab mates are creating a customizable, paper-based platform that uses pocket-sized slips of paper with genetic circuits embedded onto them. The circuitry is built by freeze drying proteins and other molecular components, which function as amplifiers and sensors, directly onto the paper.
Four Black undergraduate students reflect on their experiences in the EPIC Inspire Summer Studentship program
Undergraduate student Mary Addo working in a lab at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. September 11, 2023 By Betty Zou As the summer winds down and students start returning to class, four undergraduate students working across Toronto are reflecting back on their...
MD/PhD student Hannah Kozlowski receives inaugural Future Leaders Prize
Hannah Kozlowski is the inaugural recipient of the Future Leaders Prize from the Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium. The prize, to be awarded annually, recognizes outstanding PhD graduates at the University of Toronto who have completed an excellent infectious disease-focused thesis and demonstrated leadership outside of their scientific studies.
Boosting immune memory to enhance protection against flu
Karen Yeung is leading critical research to understand how our immune systems respond to influenza infection and how we might be able to leverage that knowledge to create a long-lasting, universal flu vaccine. A fourth-year PhD student in the department of immunology at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Yeung is one of 31 recipients of the inaugural Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) Doctoral Awards, which supports outstanding students pursuing infectious disease research.
Examining the COVID-19 pandemic through a person-centred lens
As a recipient of the inaugural Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) Doctoral Awards, which supports outstanding students pursuing infectious disease research, Afia Amoako is driven by her person-centred ethos to examine the unequal landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto. Her goal? To provide a deeper, more nuanced understanding of how people living in this city experienced COVID-19.
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