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Wednesday, October 20, 2021 Introducing SPARK: The Sunnybrook Program to Access Research Knowledge for Black and Indigenous Medical Students

SPARK, which is in the midst of its pilot year, is providing four Black and Indigenous medical students with an opportunity to engage in meaningful and fairly-paid research externships at Sunnybrook.

Monday, October 18, 2021 Researchers are developing a new online tool to help predict outcomes for cancer patients across Canada

The study team recently received a $2 million Team Grant from Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to support their research for the tool, which will be focused on gastrointestinal cancers.

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 Sunnybrook researchers demonstrate groundbreaking evidence of focused ultrasound enhanced delivery of targeted antibody therapy to breast cancer that spread to the brain

Research team captured world-first images of the antibody therapy drug, Trastuzumab, precisely targeting tumours which spread to the brain from breast cancer, across the blood-brain barrier

Tuesday, October 12, 2021 How at-home sleep tests can help diagnose sleep apnea in patients with stroke

Dr. Mark Boulos explains more in this 'behind the research' feature

Tuesday, October 12, 2021 New commentary in Nature Medicine explores placebo effects in clinical trials

Dr. Matthew Burke explains what this means for the future of clinical trials

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