Lab Profiles

By leveraging data and the power of artificial intelligence, healthcare services can be defragmented to better connect patients with medical professionals By Sean Tarry The entire world has now well and truly entered the age of digitization, where most things, whether physical or not, come with an electronic companion or digital duplicate. It’s enabled the recording and filing of a …

From left: PhD trainee Zeqing Bao, Professor Christine Allen, Allen Lab Director of Research and Partnerships, and Pauric Bannigan. Photo by Steve Southon. By Eileen HoftyzerA new autonomous lab being built in the University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy will help to design and optimize formulations that will improve bioavailability, stability, and efficacy of a variety of drugs.Christine …

Revolutionary 3D bioprinting technology helping to optimize the drug development process By Sean tarry The current and future state of drug discovery in Canada and across the globe is very much rooted in, and on the best of days reliant upon, innovation and scientific breakthrough. It’s an essential component on the journey toward affecting meaningful and medical revelations. And, one …

University of Victoria professor on vanguard of bioprinting revolution By Robert Price Originally from Missouri, Stephanie Willerth’s fascination with biology started at an early age. Her high school thesis was on stem cell differentiation, a topic of great scientific and ethical interest in the mid-1990s when Dolly was being cloned in Scotland.Willerth completed a double major in biology and chemical …

A Toronto-based biotechnology company is turning organic waste into sustainable and biodegradable materials By Sean Tarry When it comes to the future of the planet, there are few challenges greater than that of limiting the amount of waste that’s created, particularly waste of the plastic variety. Not only are landfills brimming with the petroleum-based discards, but the impact of microplastics …

The Saskatchewan Research Council IS helping industries solve technology problems, make improvements, and seize economic opportunities By Sean Tarry We’re currently living during extremely interesting times. Faced with a number of different challenges, yet equipped with a plethora of tools and resources to address and solve them, humankind has never before enjoyed such a wealth of capabilities and know-how. Aided …

Cell engineering company is harnessing the power of genetics to improve outcomes for muscular dystrophy patients.

Medical genomics researchers aim to reduce impact of drug-induced hearing loss.