Letter from the Editors – Volume 5, Issue 2
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative – whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.”...
Letter from the Chair – Volume 5, Issue 2
[caption id="attachment_2807" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto[/caption] The current issue of IMMpress Magazine is a must-read one. A certainty of life is...
Dynamics & Differentiation: Alumni Interview with Thomas Murooka
Dr. Thomas Murooka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Manitoba. His research career began at the University of Toronto where he completed his...
Medical Virtual Reality: Coming Soon to a Headset Near You
For many of us, graduate school presents constant challenges that can be emotionally, physically and psychologically taxing. Chronic failure, poor work-life balance, financial difficulties and uncertain career prospects breed a...
An Enduring Transformation: The Cross-Generational, Epigenetic Inheritance of Trauma
In May 2007, psychoanalyst Billie Pivnick entered Hangar 17 at New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport, a space housing more than 1,500 artifacts collected from the collapse of the...
Identity Crisis
Who am I? A simple question that can be answered with an infinite number of succinct descriptors. Perhaps things come to mind like student, friend, loyal, intelligent or maybe insecure,...
The Red Sea
It started with a seething rage that had me clenching my jaw at every mundane irritation. Then the fury would subside and be replaced by a despair so profound that there...
Escaping Fear: New Treatment Avenues for Assisting Recovery From PTSD
And then I heard him say to the nurse, ‘Scalpel please.’” Donna Penner recounts her experience on CBC’s White Coat, Black Art of when her anaesthetic wore off and she...
