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Research
The impact of mentorship: meet medical student Samiha Mohsen
When Samiha Mohsen isn’t in the classroom, she’s pushing herself in the swimming pool as a member of the University of Toronto’s varsity swim team...
Behind the research: Studies provide more evidence that poor vascular health speeds up cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease
Two newly published studies led by Dr. Jennifer Rabin at Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) add to the accumulating evidence that vascular disease...
Behind the Research: How the latest in stroke research at Sunnybrook could change emergency stroke treatment
For the first time in nearly 30 years, a promising new approach to treating stroke has been determined to be effective in in the largest clinical...
Bev Moir is ‘crushing it’ for cancer research
Bev Moir counts herself as lucky. Diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 2019, she underwent biomarker testing at Sunnybrook – an advanced...
Who will get Alzheimer’s? Sunnybrook scientists advancing research to answer this question
Alzheimer’s disease is one of Canada’s greatest healthcare challenges, currently having a devastating emotional and physical burden on more than 1.1...
How collecting demographic data can improve health outcomes
As a cardiologist, Dr. Dennis Ko knows that people who are South Asian or East Asian have different risks of heart disease. As a healthcare...
Using the combined powers of AI and philanthropy to improve cancer treatment planning
Sunnybrook’s trailblazing efforts in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital pathology began by looking into the past. Odette Cancer...
Scientists advancing research to prevent sudden cardiac death
It is sudden. It strikes without warning. And it is often fatal. Sudden cardiac death, often caused by a condition called ventricular tachycardia...
What can the discovery of SARS-CoV-2 in Canadian wildlife tell us about the pandemic?
Although much of our attention related to COVID-19 has been focused on how SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted among humans, researchers have been closely...