Notch Therapeutics closed $85 million financing to develop pipeline of renewable stem cell-derived cancer immunotherapies
On Feb. 10, 2021, Notch Therapeutics closed $85 Million Series A financing to develop pipeline of renewable stem…
map of genomic and proteomic pathways created by Project Grandiose
On Dec. 10, 2014, Dr. Andras Nagy, from the University of Toronto and leader of Project Grandiose, announced…
The first-ever living, three-dimensional human arrhythmic heart tissue is bioengineered at the University of Toronto
On Nov. 20, 2013, researchers at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering and the…
University of Toronto researchers used nanomaterials to develop a microchip to detect cancer
On Sept. 27, 2009, University of Toronto researchers announced that they had used nanomaterials to develop a microchip…
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Researchers led by Dr. Peter St. George-Hyslop discovered and cloned two genes related to early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease
In 1995, researchers led by Dr. Peter St. George-Hyslop at the University of Toronto discovered and cloned two…
At the University of Toronto, the first external cardiac pacemaker was implanted in a dog
In 1950, in Room 64 of the Banting Institute at the University of Toronto, Drs. Wilfred Bigelow and…
The first protein separation using electrophoresis was performed by Dr. Maud Menten
In 1944, the first protein separation using electrophoresis is performed by Dr. Maud Menten, one of the first…
Connaught Laboratories developed the first combined vaccines for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus
In 1941, Connaught Laboratories at the University of Toronto developed the first combined vaccines for diphtheria, pertussis, and…