We are excited to announce that the first annual Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium symposium will take place on October 17, 2023 at the Old Mill Toronto! Please join us for a day of research, networking and community-building. The symposium is free to attend for anyone who is affiliated with one of EPIC’s partner institutes (the Hospital for Sick Children, […]
After the success of last year’s symposium on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), we are thrilled to partner with diagnostics industry leader bioMérieux Canada once again this year to present the second annual AMR symposium! The theme of this year’s event is Putting evidence into practice in the fight against AMR. We are also excited to work with AMMI Canada and the […]
The Network Biology Collaborative Centre (NBCC) and the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (LTRI) at Sinai Health in Toronto are proudly announcing Canada's first Orbitrap Astral mass-spectrometer. Released in the summer by Thermo Fisher Scientific, the Astral is poised to transform proteomics with high throughput, deep coverage and unrivalled precision and accuracy. Housed in the NBCC's proteomics […]
Join PRiME for their fifth annual symposium on the theme of New Frontiers in Precision Medicine: Unleashing the Potential. The deadline to submit abstracts is January 25, 2024 at 11:58 pm ET.
The first annual CACHE Symposium, presented by Conscience in partnership with the Structural Genomics Consortium, will take place over two half-days on March 6 and 7 at the Chelsea Hotel in Toronto. The Symposium will feature talks about how the CACHE Challenges fit into the future of AI drug discovery, lessons learned from the participants […]
The Society for Epidemiological Research will be hosting a full-day conference in Toronto for their 2024 mid-year meeting. The theme for the conference is Innovative data science applications in epidemiology. Spots are limited! Visit their event website to see the preliminary agenda and register.
The Institute for Pandemics (IfP) is pleased to present its 2024 Interdisciplinary Symposium, on April 18th at the historic Great Hall of Hart House on the St. George campus of the University of Toronto. This year’s theme is “Reimagining Response & Preparedness for future Public Health Emergencies.” Join members of the Institute, the university, government, private […]
The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have caused nearly 15 million excess deaths globally by the end of 2021, more than twice the number of COVID-specific deaths reported. The Omicron waves in 2022 likely added to this total. In contrast to incidence and prevalence data, mortality data are high quality and complete. For most countries […]
Our second annual EPIC Symposium is back on October 17th, at the Toronto Reference Library. This full day event brings together Toronto's infectious diseases research community and some of the world's foremost experts to meet, network and discuss important topics related to infectious diseases and global health. The symposium features talks by nationally and internationally […]
The 2024 Gairdner Science Week Global Health Symposium will focus on the innovations and insights that will be vital in addressing future pandemics. Speakers include EPIC member Jen Gommerman. Check out the event website for the agenda and to register.
