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World AIDS Day: Meet the next generation of HIV/AIDS researchers
On World AIDS Day, we spotlight eight talented trainees who are doing impactful work on HIV/AIDS.
EPIC and bioMérieux bring leading researchers together for symposium on antimicrobial resistance
On November 23, the University of Toronto’s Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) partnered with diagnostics industry leader bioMérieux Canada to jointly host a research symposium on Canadian perspectives on antimicrobial resistance: where we are now and looking ahead.
Member Spotlight: Susy Hota
Meet Susy Hota, medical director of Infection Prevention and Control and an infectious disease specialist at the University Health Network. She is also an associate professor in the department of medicine at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and co-lead of the University of Toronto Microbiota Therapeutics Outcomes Program.
EPIC co-hosts roundtable with Lorne Tyrrell on the future of infectious diseases research and innovation in Canada
On Nov. 16, EPIC co-hosted a breakfast roundtable honouring Lorne Tyrrell, winner of the 2021 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research. The roundtable discussion focused on the future of infectious diseases research and innovation in Canada and what lessons could be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic as we move forward.
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week: How U of T researchers are tackling the global challenge of antimicrobial resistance
As the global health and research communities mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, members of the Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) are making strides in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. L
U of T receives $35 million to modernize high containment facility
The University of Toronto has received $35 million in critical research infrastructure funding from the federal government to revitalize the Toronto High Containment Facility (THCF), an investment that will support a planned $85-million transformation of the facility into the largest academic high-containment research centre in Canada. With significantly increased capacity for research and training, the revitalized Toronto High Containment Facility will be able to drive innovation, enhance pandemic preparedness and strengthen Ontario and Canada’s health security.
Study identifies new SARS-CoV-2 variant in white-tailed deer and first evidence of deer-to-human transmission
A team of researchers led by EPIC member Samira Mubareka has characterized a new, highly divergent variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Ontario white-tailed deer. They also found the first evidence of deer-to-human transmission.
EPIC announces new 12-person steering committee
The Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) is pleased to introduce its inaugural steering committee. Meet the 12 members of our steering committee!
Member Spotlight: Warren Chan
A Q&A with EPIC member Warren Chan about his efforts to engineer better diagnostics for infectious diseases and how he became interested in this area.