The Microscope: A Modern Day Portal to Hidden Worlds
Chances are, you’ve probably looked into a microscope at least once in your life. Whether it was to look at cells of an onion skin, to visualize colonies of growing...
Innovative Teaching Strategies, Online Tools & Experiential Learning
Graduate-level courses and programs are growing in diversity, comprised of both domestic and international students from numerous countries around the world. As such, classrooms and laboratories are becoming increasingly heterogenous in student learning preferences. Traditional lecture-based courses emphasize a ‘top-down’ teaching...
The Growing Pains of Medical Innovation
Biomedical innovations have forever changed human society. Thanks to breakthroughs in basic research and applied clinical science, humanity now enjoys an increased life expectancy, improved quality of life and better...
Toronto, the new Silicon Valley?
While the US wages its trade war against China and further restricts its immigration policies, Canada has been reaping the benefits. By attracting highly skilled workers from around the world,...
Issue 2, 2019 – Cover
Advances in medical technologies and therapeutics have had a momentous impact on our society and healthcare systems, allowing individuals suffering from various illnesses to seek vital comfort and rehabilitation. A...
Letter from the Editors – Volume 7, Issue 2
“THERE IS ONLY ONE THING STRONGER THAN ALL THE ARMIES IN THE WORLD, AND THAT IS AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME.” - VICTOR HUGO In this issue of IMMpress...
Letter from the Chair – Volume 7, Issue 2
[caption id="attachment_4204" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto[/caption] The pace of biomedical innovation continues to accelerate, with Immunological advances leading the way in...
Managing Patents & Commercialization: An Alumni Interview with Dr. Patrycja Thompson
Dr. Patrycja Thompson completed her PhD in 2015 from Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker’s laboratory, where she investigated the role of Notch signaling in T cell development and commitment. Now the...
Revamping the Patent System: More Ways to Reward Discovery
The modern patent system has roots back to 500 BCE in ancient Greece, where inventors could be granted a one year monopoly to the profits of their discoveries. In England,...
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