Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Research team discovers new underlying genetic mechanism that drives brain folding
Principal Investigator Dr. Carol Schuurmans and her team are the first in the world to identify a set of essential niche cells that have a unique genetic signature and control patterns of neurogenesis that lead to brain folds.
Tuesday, August 10, 2021 Sunnybrook researchers awarded more than $4M in CIHR Spring 2021 Project Grants competition
The Project Grant program supports 'ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes.'
Thursday, July 22, 2021 Dr. Walter Swardfager awarded Canada Research Chair
The funding will help Dr. Swardfager and his team further their work on understanding how dysfunction and degeneration of the small vessels of the brain affect cognition and mood.
Monday, July 5, 2021 Study finds diabetes is associated with worse outcomes for young stroke survivors
Sunnybrook's Dr. Bradley MacIntosh expands on findings in older stroke survivors by looking at young and midlife patients.
Monday, June 14, 2021 Chemotherapy concept pioneered at Sunnybrook Research Institute highlighted in The Lancet
Unlike traditional chemotherapy regimens, 'metronomic chemotherapy' utilizes low doses of chemotherapy given continuously over a much longer period of time, without long breaks.
