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Putting knowledge into action: the third annual symposium on antimicrobial resistance advances our fight against AMR
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...
Pre-exposure prophylaxis has emerged as a powerful strategy to deal with HIV burden, but challenges remain: a Q&A with Rupert Kaul
Rupert Kaul is a clinician scientist whose research focuses on mucosal immunity and HIV transmission and a world leader in HIV research and medicine December 3, 2024 By Sunitha Chari December 1, 2024, marked World AIDS Day, and forty years since the discovery of the...
From surveillance to control: U of T researchers are tackling the AMR problem from all angles
From left: Véronique Taylor, Duncan Carruthers-Lay, Marcus Dillon, Viplav Agarwal, Michael Fralick November 28, 2024 By Sunitha Chari As communities around the world marked World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness Week from November 18 to 24, 2024 we shine the...
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...
Artificial intelligence and infectious diseases speaker series
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...
Connecting dots and building bridges to strengthen our fight against infectious diseases
From left to right: Rob Kozak, Samira Mubareka, Inger Damon, Kanta Subbarao, Donald Sheppard, Senjuti Saha, Scott Gray-Owen and Natasha Christie-Holmes (Photo credit: Horst Herget Photography) October 25, 2024 By, Sunitha Chari The development of effective pandemic...
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...