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On Target?
The promise and challenges of molecular therapies
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Tremor trial / Image-guided therapeutics / Rehab merger
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Accolades awarded to SRI scientists
Walk This Way
Understanding how gait affects thinking
Over the Threshold
For burns, size matters
How Fractures Heal
Repairing bone, at the cellular level
Multiple Options
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Where Are They Now?
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Helming departments at Canada's largest university
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Collaborations around the globeDonor Profile
Outstanding Corporate Philanthropy
Facts & Stats
Quick statistics
Q&A
Dr. Jeff Kwong
First, Some Facts
Three details underpinning the early science of some of the stories in this issue |
Dr. Sidney Farber, an American pathologist, is considered the father of modern chemotherapy. He was the first to use drugs that block folic acid to induce remission in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemi. |
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The first X-ray picture of the human body was taken in November, 1895. It is the hand (and ring) of Mrs. Anna Röntgen, wife of Dr. Wilhelm Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays. |
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Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek crafted his own microscopes and was the first to describe single-celled organisms. He was also first to record observations of bacteria, spermatozoa and blood flow in capillaries. |
Message From Senior Leadership
Message From the President and CEO, and Chair of the Board Message From the Vice-President, Research
Inventing the Future of Health Care
Sunnybrook Research Institute
2012
Editor
Stephanie Roberts
Design
Hambly & Woolley Inc.
Writers
Eleni Kanavas
Alisa Kim
Stephanie Roberts
Cover illustration by Gracia Lam
Inventing the Future of Health Care is published by the vice-president, research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Address queries and comments to sroberts@sri.utoronto.ca
