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Staying Connected: GPD Networking Event 2016
On Thursday, April 7th, the Department of Immunology’s Graduate Professional Development course hosted its annual Networking Event. University of Toronto alumni from all over North America came to Toronto to...
Canadian Society for Immunology 2016
This past April, immunologists from across Canada gathered with fervour at the 29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Immunology (CSI) in Ottawa to discuss frontiers in the field....
The Secret Lives of Immunologists
[caption id="attachment_2312" align="aligncenter" width="1275"] Artwork from graduate students in the Department of Immunology.[/caption]
Broken Telephone
Scientific advances have always been part of our daily life, even if we are oblivious to the specifics. Until recently, scientific discovery has remained within the ivory tower. With the...
#firstworldproblems
Cancer is arguably the biggest medical problem of the 21st century - but whose problem is it? The other day, I was talking to a group of friends during lunchtime...
Letter from the Chair – Volume 4, Issue 1
[caption id="attachment_1639" align="aligncenter" width="5616"] Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto[/caption] We are now starting Volume IV of IMMpress Magazine, and I remain awestruck (best synonym...
Letter from the Editors – Volume 4, Issue 1
[caption id="attachment_1634" align="aligncenter" width="5074"] Co-Editors Kieran Manion (left) and Catherine Schrankel (right).[/caption] “Scientist’s theories are not just formal axiomatic statements of scientific laws, but incorporate hidden assumptions about the nature...
The Placebo Effect
Whether one takes an ibuprofen to relieve a headache or an antidepressant to boost serotonin levels, the body is responding to more than just the active drug. The mere act...
Big Pharma 2.0: Open Source Drug Discovery
In the age of “Big Data”, hypothetical coding sequences and poorly characterized proteins are common. Transcriptomic and proteomic datasets regularly result in disappointment, as the top hit is often some...