Friday, March 7, 2025 Dr. Nicole Look Hong appointed to the Marion C. Soloway Chair in Breast Cancer Surgery
Sunnybrook is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Nicole Look Hong to the Marion C. Soloway Chair in Breast Cancer Surgery, jointly shared by Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine.
Thursday, January 16, 2025 World First: Researches & physicians at Sunnybrook and SickKids deliver chemotherapy to pediatric brain tumours using MRI-guided focused ultrasound
Researchers and physicians at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) are the first in the world to use MRI-guided focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier and deliver chemotherapy in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), an aggressive and terminal pediatric brain tumour.
Monday, June 5, 2023 Drug prolongs time before brain tumour grows back
As part of the Phase 3 clinical trial, research participants with low-grade gliomas, taking the drug vorasidenib remained free from tumour re-growth for 27.7 months, as of the time of study read-out.
Monday, December 5, 2022 Upper abdominal patient receives first treatment on MR-Linac – Elekta Unity
This technology is the first machine in the world to combine radiation and high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Thursday, November 17, 2022 Two Sunnybrook scientists awarded Canada Research Chairs
Two Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) scientists have been recognized with the country’s highest research honour, a Canada Research Chair (CRC). Dr. Burton Yang, a senior scientist in Biological Sciences and the Odette Cancer Research Program, and Dr. Maged Goubran, a scientist in Physical Sciences and the Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, were announced as chairholders on November 16, 2022.
