Category: Letter

[caption id="attachment_1634" align="aligncenter" width="622"] Co-Editors Kieran Manion (left) and Catherine Schrankel (right).[/caption] How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.” – Charles Darwin It has often been said that children are our future and this...

I am writing in response to an article published in the Winter 2015 issue of IMMpress Magazine entitled “The Many Paths Post-PhD: Preparing for non-academic careers during a PhD” by...

[caption id="attachment_1639" align="aligncenter" width="622"] Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto[/caption] With every new issue of IMMpress Magazine, we are treated to a high level of...

[caption id="attachment_1634" align="aligncenter" width="622"] Co-Editors Kieran Manion (left) and Catherine Schrankel (right).[/caption] “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution”— this was the thesis of a seminal...

[caption id="attachment_1634" align="aligncenter" width="622"] Co-Editors Kieran Manion (left) and Catherine Schrankel (right).[/caption] We open Volume 3 of IMMpress with an issue on Biotechnology, our first as new co-editors. Biotechnology is...

[caption id="attachment_900" align="alignright" width="300"] Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto[/caption] Out with the old, in with the new, so goes the saying, and in this...

[caption id="attachment_900" align="alignright" width="400"] Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto[/caption] The IMMpress Magazine team is once again delighting us with another stimulating and mind-blowing issue....

[caption id="attachment_868" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Yuriy Baglaenko and Charles Tran, Co-Editors-in-Chief.[/caption] Psoriasis is a disorder characterized by the recruitment of inflammatory dendritic cells, macrophages, and T cells to the skin causing...

[caption id="attachment_868" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Yuriy Baglaenko and Charles Tran, Co-Editors-in-Chief.[/caption] In 1987, the first drug against HIV, azidothymidine (AZT), was approved by the FDA. At that time in the epidemic,...

[caption id="attachment_900" align="alignright" width="400"] Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto[/caption] In January of 2013, a bold new initiative was made a reality, and graduate students...