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
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most commonly occurring birth anomaly. Despite a strong genetic basis, almost 90% of cases remain genetically undiagnosed. However, the surge of new technology is enabling a search for hidden gene defects not detectable on...
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Messe Berlin Exhibition Halls Berlin, Germany54th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
Seminar: Jennifer Elisseeff, Johns Hopkins
Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research 160 College St #230, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTGHRI Research Day
Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaToronto 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 […]
Canadian Cardiovascular Congress
Metro Toronto Convention Centre 255 Front Street W, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe 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 […]
Diabetes-CVD Symposium
Metro Toronto Convention Centre 255 Front Street W, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSeminar: Wolfram Zimmermann, Goettingen, Germany
MSB 2170 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTranslation 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 […]
Seminar: Marlene Rabinovitch, Stanford
Mount Sinai Hospital 600 University Avenue 18th floor, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaMedicine by Design Symposium
MaRS 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe 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 […]
ASCB 2018
San Diego Convention Center 111 W. Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA, United StatesFollow 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 […]
Future Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
JLABS 661 University Ave., 13th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaWhen 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 […]