OIRM's Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Symposium is an annual one-day event that brings together scientists, clinicians, trainees, industry, health charities, and government to share advances. With a 2018 theme of “Problem Solving with our Partners,” OIRM’s goal is to enable more Ontario research to bridge the gap between the lab and the clinic. The Symposium […]

Canada's largest meeting devoted to heart failure returns to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, as the Canadian Heart Failure Society and Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research unite to host Heart Failure Update 2018. The event assembles clinicians, investigators, nurses, research staff, allied health professionals and trainees working in this evolving and critical area. *** Members of Ted Rogers […]

The Medicine by Design Global Speaker Series invites established and emerging international leaders in regenerative medicine to engage with our extraordinary community of researchers and clinicians. Medicine by Design, in partnership with the Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is pleased to welcome Jared Toettcher, PhD, assistant professor of molecular biology at Princeton University.

Join us for the 13th annual Ontario-on-a-Chip symposium at the University of Toronto. This year, the symposium is held collaboratively with The Training Program in Organ-on-a-Chip Engineering & Entrepreneurship (TOeP). This year we are excited to have Prof. Sabeth Verpoorte and Prof. Howard Stone as keynote speakers for the symposium!

The ESC Congress has developed into the world’s largest conference in cardiovascular medicine, with a strong global reputation as an event that provides the latest research findings and their interpretation, in-depth science, and solid education. The Congress Programme Committee is structuring the finest in science, innovation and research in cardiology into more than 500 sessions […]

A premier meeting for international atherosclerosis research, held triennially.

The Medicine by Design Global Speaker Series invites established and emerging international leaders in regenerative medicine to engage with our extraordinary community of researchers and clinicians. Medicine by Design, in partnership with the Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is pleased to welcome Prisca Liberali, PhD, from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research at the University of […]

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Confirmed Speakers Dr. Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, University of Toronto, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research Oxidative stress orchestrates cell polarity during embryonic wound repair Dr. Masakazu Akiyama, Hokkaido University A mathematical model of collective cell migration based on cell polarity Dr. Yasuhiro Inoue, Kyoto University Computational simulation on multiple cell dynamics in tissue deformation Dr. Naoto Ueno, […]

The world's largest cardiovascular congress bringing together: 31,000 healthcare professionals From 150 countries 4,500 abstracts presented 500 experts sessions 400 cardiology topics 200 exhibiting companies 5 days of scientific sessions

The Congress The 11th World Congress for Microcirculation (WCM2018) will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada from September 9-13, 2018. This marks the first return of the Congress to Canada since its inaugural meeting in Toronto in 1975. The Congress is organized and held on a rotating 3-5 year basis in a unique location corresponding […]

Agenda: 9:30-10:00 Registration and Breakfast 10:00-10:30 Atherosclerosis and Inflammation in the general population: New target for treatment – TBD 10:30-11:00 Cardio-Rheumatology Program: One Year summary – Dr. Lihi Eder, Rheumatology, Women’s College Hospital 11:00-11:30 The approach to the management of cardiovascular disease in rheumatic patients – Dr. Shadi Akhtari, Cardiology, Women’s College Hospital 11:30-12:00 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus […]

The Heart Failure Society of America's Annual Scientific Meeting is intended for physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists,  scientists, and health care professionals who specialize or have an interest in heart failure.

This 2.5 day conference will provide a comprehensive overview of fetal cardiovascular medicine with presentations encompassing recent advancements in imaging, diagnosis and management of fetal cardiovascular abnormalities. The program is thematic, focusing on the techniques (including live scanning sessions) in the assessment of fetal heart disease, parental counseling, and perinatal management. Speakers are recognized national and […]

54th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes

Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (TGHRI) is happy to announce that this year’s Research Day will be held on Wednesday October 17th, 2018 at the Toronto Reference Library. This year's keynote speakers will be: Dr. Reinhart Reithmeier, Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto will be presenting “The 10,000 PhDs Project:  Implications for Graduate Education” […]

The Canadian Cardiovascular Congress (CCC) is the largest gathering of cardiovascular and allied health professionals in Canada. The Congress draws cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, researchers, nurses and other cardiovascular specialists from across Canada and around the globe and connects them with other members of the cardiovascular healthcare team. The CCC provides a broad spectrum of cardiovascular […]

Translation of Tissue Engineering for Drug Development and Heart Repair Wolfram Zimmermann Engineering of human tissue, with a focus on the heart, is a main research topic of the Zimmermann lab. The seminar will touch upon different models of in vitro organogenesis with applications in disease modelling, drug development, and tissue engineered heart repair. Mechanisms […]

The third annual Medicine by Design Symposium will bring together principal investigators and trainees from across the University of Toronto and affiliated hospitals, along Scientific Advisory Board members, to share research and ignite new collaborations. Session themes include: Gene engineering Immune engineering Muscle engineering Neural engineering The symposium will also include an opportunity for trainees […]

Follow the arc of scientific discovery… Join us for the 2018 ASCB|EMBO Meeting, focusing on cell biology as the fundamental basis of biology and exploring more specialized fields, such as neurobiology and stem cell biology. Program Co-Chairs: Thomas Langer, Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Aging, Cologne Samara Reck-Peterson, University of California, San Diego/HHMI

When we run for a bus or reach for our phones, our bodies instantly translate the oxygen we breathe and our energy reserves into coordinated movement. We don’t have to give it a second thought. However, this is different for people with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). It may be hard to believe, but for people […]

AI Med North America 2018 is for those interested in the biggest paradigm shift in healthcare and medicine: Artificial Intelligence This is the No.1 event of its type in the USA. Three days dedicated to the transformative impact that AI-inspired technology is having on healthcare. A platform designed by clinicians to showcase latest thinking and facilitate new […]

The World Stem Cell Summit is a project of the nonprofit Regenerative Medicine Foundation. Since 2003, the Foundation has built the strongest, most comprehensive and trusted global network for Regenerative Medicine, uniting the world’s leading researchers, medical centers, universities, labs, businesses, funders, policymakers, experts in law, regulation and ethics, medical philanthropies and patient organizations. Our mission is to […]