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2011

June 10, 2011
ANNOUNCEMENT: TPRM 2012 COMPETITION is now open. Please click here for details. (Application deadline is September 23, 2011)

May 20, 2011
Cafe Scientifique presents CANCER PREVENTION: IS IT POSSIBLE? to be held on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 from 6 to 8 pm

ANNOUNCEMENT: Congratulations to our 2011 TPRM Summer Studentship Awardees! Funded Trainees

February 11, 2011
Cafe Scientifique presents WAKE UP! Is sleep more important than we think? to be held on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 from 6 to 8 pm

January 11, 2011
2011 Regenerative Medicine Symposium (ARMs) on April 6-7, 2011. There is no cost for this event! Details available!

January 10, 2011
Dr. Megan Sykes
upcoming lecture in the Visiting Speaker Lecture Series...details

January 4, 2011
TPRM 2011 Summer Studentship Competition details for undergraduates now available!

ANNOUNCEMENT: 2011 CIHR Training Program in Regenerative Medicine Funded Trainees!

2010

December 2, 2010:
Scientific Writing Workshop on March 3, 2011 now open for registration....details

November 29, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. Lianne Singer who was selected for the Ontario Lung Association/Pfizer Canada—Cardio-Pulmonary Research Award in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.

Congratulations to Dr. Gordon Keller who was selected as one of this year's 25 Transformational Canadians by the Globe and Mail.

October 29, 2010
upcoming Visiting Speaker Lecture Series - Dr. May Griffith ...details

October 12, 2010
upcoming Cafe Scientifique "When Good Cells Go Bad: New Approaches to Treating Cancer" to be held on October 27th, 2010!

September 28, 2010
Introductory Cell & Tissue Culture Workshop
on November 3-4, 2010!...details

September 2, 2010
TPRM to host Introductory Western Blot Workshop on October 6-7, 2010!...details

Best wishes to the trainees in the 2010 TPRM Summer Program...more

August 26, 2010
Dr. Gordon Keller
is the first speaker in the Visiting Speaker Lecture Series...details

June 29: NEW! Job posting for a Junior TA for the RM Course....posting

August 12: TPRM Summer Student Final Presentations will be held on Thursday August 26th at 7:45am....more

June 28: NEW! TPRM Social Media on Facebook becomes a Page!

March 28: Congratulations to the 2010 TPRM Summer Trainees!

March 1: The TPRM have partnered with Let's Talk Science...more

March 23: TPRM trainees and alumni register for the 2010 Regenerative Medicine Symposium on April 13-14, 2010. There is no cost for this event! More Details

March 22: TPRM and Let's Talk Science sign MOU for one year. More Details

February 22: Grant Writing Workshop offered on March 4th, 2010 to all TPRM members.

February 12: Join us for a Cafe Scientifique on March 4th 2010! View the flyer

January 28: TPRM trainees and alumni are invited to register for the Real Time PCR workshop. Flyer

January 27: Summer Competition Announced for 2010! Learn more

January 18:
The upcoming Visiting Speaker Lecture #3 is Dr. Michael Fehlings....flyer

2009

November 6: Dr. Michael Sefton awarded NSERC CREATE grant for Training Program in Microfluidics!

October 26: TPRM Mentor Dr. Michael Fehlings has been awarded the North American Spine Society’s 2009 Leon Wiltse Award for excellence in leadership and/or clinical research in spine care...more

Call for Abstracts for the Day in Transplantation on December 4th, 2009....details

October 21: Seminar
by Affymetrix on Medical Genomics Research taking place November 12, 2009...more details

October 20: TPRM is looking for TPRM trainees, members, and PI's as volunteers at the BodyWorlds exhibit as 'Heath Experts'...more details

October 9: Dr. Heather Ross will be speaking at BodyWorlds: The Story of the Heart on October 20th!...more

September 30: Michael J. Fox Parkinson's charity registered in Canada...more

September 29: Workshop on Cell and Tissue Culture....flyer

July 2: ANNOUNCEMENT - 2010 TPRM Fellowship Competition (deadline September 21, 2009)...more

June 22: KT Canada launches Summer Institute for STIHR trainees to be held in Toronto from August 18 to 20, 2009...more

May 25: TPRM and IBDL to host a Career Panel on July 14th. Spots are limited.....flyer

May 12: Congratulations to Jane MacIver (TPRM Trainee) this year's winner of the Nightingale Award!
Congratulations to Dr. Li Zhang (TPRM Co-PI) for being awarded Canadian Cancer Society grant funding for her project on the role and mechanisms of MFAP4 in DNT cell-mediate inhibition of GVHD and Leukemia!

April 30: ANNOUNCEMENT - The CIHR Training Program in Regenerative Medicine has been renewed for another 6 years...more

April 22: Congratulations to Dr. Heather Ross for being selected as the recipient of the 2009 IMS Course Lecturer Award for a sustained contribution of three years or more to excellence in lecturing in an IMS graduate course (Regenerative Medicine)!

April 2: Stem cell science's new breakthrough from Dr. Nagy's lab...Article

March 19: The quest to use the body’s own cells to fix a damaged heart...article

February 13: Dr. Samuel Weiss will give the Keynote lecture at the 2nd Annual Regenerative Medicine Symposium...full story

January 26: Stem cell clinical trials in the U.S. 'outstanding news' for Canada...Article

2008
December 19: WORLDS FIRST - Team led by Dr. Shaf Keshavjee developed a procedure improving lung transplant odds using a new technique to repair an injured donor lung that was unsuitable for transplant, and then successfully transplanted it into a patient..Article

December 4: TPRM Co-Investigators Drs. Freda Miller (PI) and Samuel Weiss (Co-PI) awarded one of nine Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine Emerging Team Grants from CIHR....more

November 19: TB patient gets new windpipe made with own Stem Cells...more

October 23: Final Evaluation Report of the Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research (STIHR)...more

August 27: Agreement announced between the TPRM and NCRM....more

August 27: Workshop announced for writing publishable articles...more

July 14: Information for the 2008-2009 course is now available!...more

June 26: TPRM has a new logo...more

June 18: Stem cell research gets a $1M boost...more

June 17: Dr. Samuel Weiss wins Gairdner award...more

May 15: Drs. Samuel Weiss & Jacques Galipeau join the TPRM membership...more

April 24: UHN researchers successfully grow heart cells...more

April 21: Nichi-In Centre for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM) Chennai institute offers India's 1st PhD in regenerative medicine...more

April 18: United States' Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) project to develop battlefield injury treatments...more

Teaching Asst. Patrick Lam awarded the Hong Kong Medical Association Prize (07-8).

April 12: Regenerative Medicine Products Market to Reach $2.85 billion by 2010...more

April 11: Embryonic Stem Cells Share an Identical miRNA Profile...more

April 11: Stem Cell Research May Treat Rare Blood Disorder...more

April 22: TPRM & IBDL host highschool workshop | Canadian Medical Hall of Fame/Pfizer Canada Discovery Days in Health Sciences..more

Event Review: 1st Annual Student Symposium in Regenerative Medicine...more

May 14:
Visiting Speaker Lecture Series - Dr. Jacques Galipeau, McGill University

May 8-10: ICRH Young Investigators (YI) Forum 2008 , Centre Sheraton, Montreal Hotel

TPRM trainee Karrie Wong awarded an AAI Trainee Abstract Award at the 95th AAI Annual Meeting

Education Report for Transplantation...More

2008 Trainee Funding Results...More

February 28: TPRM Member Dr. Shaf Keshavjee, awarded Wyeth/CIHR Chair in Transplantation..More

2007:
November 28: Government of Canada renews Networks of Centres of Excellence Stem Cell Network..More

September 13: Two U of T researchers send experiments into space...More