Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute / en 20 U of T researchers awarded new or renewed Canada Research Chairs /celebrates/20-u-t-researchers-awarded-new-or-renewed-canada-research-chairs <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">20 U of T researchers awarded new or renewed Canada Research Chairs</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>rahul.kalvapalle</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-03-13T09:09:09-04:00" title="Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 09:09" class="datetime">Wed, 03/13/2024 - 09:09</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/mississauga" hreflang="en">Mississauga</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/scarborough" hreflang="en">Scarborough</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/camh" hreflang="en">CAMH</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/dalla-lana-school-public-health" hreflang="en">Dalla Lana School of Public Health</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6877" hreflang="en">Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/factor-inwentash-faculty-social-work" hreflang="en">Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/ihpme" hreflang="en">IHPME</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/institute-biomedical-engineering-0" hreflang="en">Institute of Biomedical Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/lawrence-s-bloomberg-faculty-nursing" hreflang="en">Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6895" hreflang="en">Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/rotman-school-management" hreflang="en">Rotman School of Management</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/st-michael-s-hospital" hreflang="en">St. Michael's Hospital</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/sunnybrook-research-institute" hreflang="en">Sunnybrook Research Institute</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/u-t-mississauga" hreflang="en">U of T Mississauga</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/unity-health" hreflang="en">Unity Health</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Twenty faculty members from the şüŔęĘÓƵ have been awarded Canada Research Chairs in support of their research in areas ranging from LGBTQ2S+ youth mental health to quantum photonic technologies and sustainable suburban housing.</p> <p><a href="https://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/whats_new-quoi_de_neuf/2024/crc-2022-2-eng.aspx">Awarded by the Government of Canada</a>, Canada Research Chair positions are designed to reinforce academic research and training excellence with a view to improving depth of knowledge and quality of life, strengthening Canada’s international competitiveness and helping train the next generation of highly skilled people.</p> <p>“I would like to congratulate all the şüŔęĘÓƵ scholars who have newly been appointed Canada Research Chairs or had their positions renewed in this latest cohort,” said <strong>Leah Cowen</strong>, U of T’s vice-president, research and innovation, and strategic initiatives. “From cognitive neurobiology to household finance and urban environmental science, these researchers are furthering knowledge and spurring innovation in areas of critical importance.”</p> <p>The latest cycle of Canada Research Chair appointees from U of T includes eight new and 12 renewed positions:</p> <h3>New Canada Research Chairs</h3> <p><strong>Alex Abramovich </strong>at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and department of psychiatry in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine – Tier 2 in 2SLGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness and Mental Health</p> <p><strong>Claire CĂ©lĂ©rier </strong>in the Rotman School of Management – Tier 2 in Household Finance</p> <p><strong>Natalie Coburn</strong> at the Sunnybrook Research Institute and the department of surgery in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine – Tier 1 in Cancer Outcomes</p> <p><strong>Li Qian</strong> in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. department of electrical and computer engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering – Tier 1 in Quantum Photonic Technologies</p> <p><strong>Alison McGuigan</strong> in the department of chemical engineering and applied chemistry and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering – <a href="https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/new-canada-research-chairs-advance-research-in-regenerative-medicine-sustainable-housing-and-more/">Tier 1 in Tissue Engineering and Disease Modelling</a></p> <p><strong>Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad </strong>in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health – Tier 2 in Health Informatics and Precision (Public) Health</p> <p><strong>Mina Tadrous </strong>in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy – Tier 2 in<a href="https://www.pharmacy.utoronto.ca/news-announcements/new-canada-research-chair-real-world-evidence-and-pharmaceutical-policy">&nbsp;Real-World Evidence and Pharmaceutical Policy</a></p> <p><strong>Marianne Touchie</strong> in the department of civil and mineral engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering – Tier 2 in Sustainable Urban Housing</p> <h3>Renewed Canada Research Chairs</h3> <p><strong>Rachel Barney</strong> in the departments of classics and philosophy at the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science – Tier 1 in Ancient Philosophy</p> <p><strong>Marie-JosĂ©e Fortin</strong> in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science – Tier 1 in Spatial Ecology</p> <p><strong>Paul Frankland </strong>at the SickKids Research Institute, the department of psychology in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science, and the department of physiology and Institute of Medical Science in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine – Tier 1 in Cognitive Neurobiology</p> <p><strong>Anne-Claude Gingras</strong> at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health and the department of molecular genetics in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine – Tier 1 in Functional Proteomics</p> <p><strong>Tara Gomes</strong> at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto and the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy – Tier 2 in Drug Policy and Substance Use</p> <p><strong>Daniel Grace</strong> in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health – Tier 2 in Sexual and Gender Minority Health</p> <p><strong>Marc Johnson</strong> in the department of biology at U of T Mississauga – Tier 2 in Urban Environmental Science</p> <p><strong>Sheena Josselyn</strong> at the SickKids Research Institute, the department of psychology in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science and the department of physiology in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine – Tier 1 in Memory Function and Dysfunction</p> <p><strong>Carmen Logie</strong>&nbsp;at Women's College Research Institute and the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work – Tier 2 in Global Health Equity &amp; Social Justice with Marginalized Populations</p> <p><strong>Ito Peng</strong> in the department of sociology in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science – Tier 1 in Global Social Policy</p> <p><strong>Navindra Persaud</strong> at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, the department of family and community medicine in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health – Tier 2 in Health Justice</p> <p><strong>Martine Puts</strong> in the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing – Tier 2 in Care of Frail Older Adults</p> <h3><a href="https://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/whats_new-quoi_de_neuf/2024/crc-2022-2-eng.aspx">Read the Government of Canada announcement</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:09:09 +0000 rahul.kalvapalle 306695 at Daniel Drucker receives 2023 VinFuture Special Prize /celebrates/daniel-drucker-receives-2023-vinfuture-special-prize <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Daniel Drucker receives 2023 VinFuture Special Prize </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>rahul.kalvapalle</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-01-08T11:39:17-05:00" title="Monday, January 8, 2024 - 11:39" class="datetime">Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:39</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6895" hreflang="en">Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2024-01/UofT93566_2022-07-18-Daniel-Drucker-8_Polina-Teif-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Daniel Drucker (photo by Polina Teif)</em></p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Daniel Drucker</strong>, a senior investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health and a <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/complete-list-university-professors/">University Professor</a> in the department of medicine at the şüŔęĘÓƵ's Temerty Faculty of Medicine, is part of a team of scientists who have been awarded the <a href="https://vinfutureprize.org/news-insights/the-2023-vinfuture-prize-honors-four-scientific-works-under-the-theme-of-boundless-unity/">2023 VinFuture Special Prize for Innovators with Outstanding Achievements in Emerging Fields</a>.</p> <p>The prize, valued at $500,000, is presented by the not-for-profit VinFuture Foundation in recognition of breakthrough scientific and technological innovations.</p> <p>Drucker and collaborators were recognized for discovering the role of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a gut hormone that has paved the way for the development of treatments for diabetes and obesity and prompted applications for neurodegenerative diseases.</p> <p>“This recognition really was built by thousands of trainees, scientists, clinical trial people and many tens of thousands of people living with obesity and diabetes and cardiometabolic disorders, who volunteered for the clinical trials [and] who made the reality happen,” Drucker said <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtswMyXHql4&amp;t=3180s&amp;ab_channel=VinFuturePrize">during the VinFuture Prize awards ceremony</a> in Hanoi, Vietnam in December 2023.</p> <p>Drucker shared the prize with Professors Joel Habener of Harvard Medical School, Svetlana Mojsov of Rockefeller University and Jens Juul Holst of the University of Copenhagen.</p> <p>The awards ceremony took place just a few days after <em>Science</em> named GLP-1 therapies as its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-of-the-year-2023#section_breakthrough">2023 Breakthrough of the Year</a>. The journal noted there’s a “groundswell of hope” that the drugs can curb rates of obesity and related chronic diseases, and cited recent clinical trials that found promise that they could also reduce the risk of heart attacks.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:39:17 +0000 rahul.kalvapalle 305211 at Daniel Drucker awarded 2023 Wolf Prize in Medicine /celebrates/daniel-drucker-awarded-2023-wolf-prize-medicine <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Daniel Drucker awarded 2023 Wolf Prize in Medicine</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-02-10T16:03:25-05:00" title="Friday, February 10, 2023 - 16:03" class="datetime">Fri, 02/10/2023 - 16:03</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6893" hreflang="en">Wolf Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6894" hreflang="en">Sinai Health</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6895" hreflang="en">Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/UofT86640_2020-11-01-Daniel-Drucker-%285%29-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Daniel Drucker,</strong> a senior scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, and a professor in the department of medicine at the şüŔęĘÓƵ's Temerty Faculty of Medicine has been honoured with the 2023 Wolf Prize for medicine.</p> <p>“We are very excited to have our science highlighted by the Wolf Foundation; this is terrific recognition for dozens of trainees and lab staff who have made important contributions over the years,” Drucker says.</p> <p>Drucker was recognized for his research on the physiology and therapeutic potential of glucagon-like peptides, hormones produced in the gut that now form the basis for several highly effective drugs to treat type 2 diabetes, obesity and intestinal disorders.</p> <p>The Wolf Prize is awarded annually to scientists and artists from around the world, for their achievements in the interest of humanity and friendly relations among peoples. Eight laureates from five countries were honoured this year, and will receive a certificate and US $100,000 at a ceremony in Israel this June.</p> <p>Drucker joins three other U of T faculty members who have received the Wolf Prize since its inception in 1978: <strong>John Polanyi</strong> (department of chemistry, 1982), <strong>Anthony Pawson</strong> (department of molecular genetics, 2005) and <strong>James Arthur</strong> (department of mathematics, 2015).</p> <p>“The şüŔęĘÓƵ congratulates Dan Drucker on this latest recognition of his important work,” says <strong>Leah Cowen</strong>, U of T’s vice-president, research and innovation, and strategic initiatives. “His commitment to scientific discovery, his decades of meticulous work and dedication to improving the lives of patients have led to new treatments that have truly made a global impact.”</p> <h3><a href="https://wolffund.org.il/the-wolf-prize/">Read more about the Wolf Prize&nbsp;&nbsp;</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:03:25 +0000 lanthierj 179829 at