On March 5, 2025, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) received a significant breakthrough in pediatric research with an $11.7 million award from Genome Canada. As part of the Canadian Precision Health Initiative, a total of $81 million in...
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Celebrating Dr. Soror Sharifpoor
After eight transformative years at the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research (TRCHR), Dr. Soror Sharifpoor is embarking on an exciting new chapter in her career. As the Director of Strategy & Translation at the Translational Biology and Engineering Program (TBEP)...
Our 2023-24 Innovation Fund Award Winners
With a mission to support novel approaches to managing and preventing heart failure, the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research uses its Innovation Fund to propel emerging research with great potential. The 2024-25 Innovation Fund Seed Grants are currently open and you...
Welcome Iris Cohn, the Centre’s New Innovator in Genomic Translation
The Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research is delighted to welcome Iris Cohn as the new Innovator in Genomic Translation - also recently promoted to Director of the Pharmacogenetics (PGx) Program at The Hospital for Sick Children. A trained pharmacist, Iris established...
NorthMiRs Announced as Winner of ECHO PITCH 2024
NorthMiRs Inc., an innovative cardiovascular biotech start-up, has won $250,000 in funding from the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research’s Entrepreneurship for Cardiovascular Health Opportunities (ECHO) PITCH 2024 competition. Since its launch in 2018, the ECHO...
New study illustrates a novel approach to uncovering genetic causes of congenital heart disease in the “dark genome” using AI
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Seminar: Edward Botchwey
Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research 160 College St #230, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaHarnessing Inflammation Pathways and Membrane Lipidomics for Stem Cell Biomanufacturing and Regenerative Engineering
Seminar: Katey Rayner
St. Michael's Hospital 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRIP inflammation: Novel inflammatory drivers of obesity & cardiometabolic diseases
Dr. Michael Laflamme – Seminar
Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research 661 University Avenue, 14th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaHeart regeneration with human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
Seminar: Dr. David Taggart
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTitle: "The use of randomized cardiovascular surgical trials to distort best clinical practice." Location: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre - Room E-315 Learning objectives: To understand the principles and rationale for randomized trials To understand how easy it is to construct randomized trials to give a desired outcome To understand the several apparently extraneous factors that […]
Medicine By Design Symposium
MaRS 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaKeynote: Dr. Donald Ingber (Harvard) -- “Catalyzing the Next Technology Wave: Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Wyss Institute.”
Seminar: Jianping Fu, University of Michigan
Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research 661 University Avenue, 14th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSynthetic human embryology in a dish
Seminar: Jenny Nichols, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research 160 College St #230, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaToronto Cardiac Tumour Conference
Women’s College Hospital Conference Centre 76 Grenville Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThis annual conference will focus on cardiac myxoma in 2018
Seminar: Jason Maynes & Yu Sun
Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research 661 University Avenue, 14th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSeminar: Princess Imoukhuede
Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research 160 College St #230, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe 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 Princess Imoukhuede, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Imoukhuede will deliver […]