Immunology / en Pailin Chiaranunt and Peter Serles named 2024 Schmidt Science Fellows /celebrates/pailin-chiaranunt-and-peter-serles-named-2024-schmidt-science-fellows <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Pailin Chiaranunt and Peter Serles named 2024 Schmidt Science Fellows</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>rahul.kalvapalle</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-04-24T11:11:13-04:00" title="Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 11:11" class="datetime">Wed, 04/24/2024 - 11:11</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/alumni" hreflang="en">ֱ</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/alumni" hreflang="en">ֱ</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-mechanical-industrial-engineering" hreflang="en">Department of Mechanical &amp; Industrial Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/immunology" hreflang="en">Immunology</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2024-04/chiaranunt-serles.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Pailin Chiaranunt and Peter Serles (supplied images)</em></p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Pailin Chiaranunt</strong> and <strong>Peter Serles</strong>, both of whom carried out doctoral research at the University of Toronto,&nbsp;have been named <a href="https://schmidtsciencefellows.org/fellows/">2024 Schmidt Science Fellows</a> in recognition of their efforts to wield interdisciplinary research to drive sector-wide change.</p> <p>Schmidt Science Fellows is an initiative of Schmidt Sciences, a philanthropic organization founded by <strong>Eric</strong> and <strong>Wendy Schmidt</strong> to advance scientific exploration and discovery and develop solutions to global issues. The program is delivered in partnership with the Rhodes Trust.</p> <p>"It's at the edges of things – ecosystems, borders, disciplines – where the most interesting ideas are developed, solutions that don't arise from any single approach," said Wendy Schmidt in a press release. "We're excited to welcome the 2024 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows to approach these edges, look at problems anew, share insights with each other and the world and, we hope, go on to develop solutions to some of humanity's most pressing challenges."</p> <p>Chiaranunt and Serles join a cohort of 32 fellows who will undertake a year-long science leadership program to prepare them to join the next generation of interdisciplinary science leaders, alongside a one to two-year research placement at a new institution.</p> <p>“To address the world's greatest challenges today, I believe that we need an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to science,” said Chiaranunt, who completed her PhD in immunology at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and is conducting post-doctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco. “I am delighted that the Schmidt Science Fellows program appreciates these values, and I'm excited to use this unique opportunity to study how inflammation and infection can impact brain health&nbsp;– a growing crisis in today's&nbsp;post-pandemic world.”</p> <p>“Being given the freedom and support to work on high-risk, high-reward research will allow me to ask the biggest questions I can and develop entirely new areas of expertise that I can eventually bring back to Canada,” said Serles, who is set to graduate from the Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering with a PhD in June, and will take on a post-doctoral fellowship at&nbsp;the California Institute of Technology. “Nano-3D-printed scaffolds for neural organoids combines cutting edge-technologies in mechanical engineering and neuroscience to, hopefully, solve some of our most pressing issues."</p> <h3><a href="https://schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/eric-and-wendy-schmidt-announce-2024-schmidt-science-fellows/">Read the Schmidt Sciences announcement</a></h3> <h3><a href="https://schmidtsciencefellows.org/fellow/pailin-chiaranunt/">Read more about Pailin Chiaranunt’s research</a></h3> <h3><a href="https://schmidtsciencefellows.org/fellow/peter-serles/">Read more about Peter Serles’s research</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:11:13 +0000 rahul.kalvapalle 307642 at Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen awarded 2023 John Charles Polanyi Prize in physiology and medicine /celebrates/kevin-champagne-jorgensen-awarded-2023-john-charles-polanyi-prize-physiology-and <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen awarded 2023 John Charles Polanyi Prize in physiology and medicine</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>rahul.kalvapalle</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-02-21T14:14:23-05:00" title="Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 14:14" class="datetime">Wed, 02/21/2024 - 14:14</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/immunology" hreflang="en">Immunology</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/john-charles-polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">Polanyi Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/polanyi-prize-physiology-and-medicine" hreflang="en">Polanyi Prize in Physiology and Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2024-02/Photo---Kevin-Champagne-Jorgensen-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen (courtesy of the Council of Ontario Universities)</em></p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen</strong>, a post-doctoral fellow in the department of immunology in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, has been awarded the prestigious&nbsp;<a href="https://news.ontario.ca/en/backgrounder/1004205/polanyi-prizes-awarded-to-ontarios-top-researchers">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a> in physiology and medicine for 2023.</p> <p>The provincial government awards the&nbsp;Polanyi Prize annually to early-career researchers from Ontario universities. Established in 1987, the award is named in honour of John Charles Polanyi, <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/complete-list-university-professors/">University Professor</a> Emeritus in the department of chemistry and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize.&nbsp;The winners are nominated by the deans of university graduate schools across Ontario and chosen by a selection committee organized by the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies</p> <p>A researcher in the lab of Professor <strong>Jennifer Gommerman</strong>, Champagne-Jorgensen is carrying out research that aims to develop microbe-based therapeutics to improve the health of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). There is currently no effective medication to prevent progression of MS, a chronic disease affecting approximately 90,000 Canadians and more than 2.5 million people worldwide.</p> <p>Champagne-Jorgensen’s research has found that gut microbes are important for healthy neurodevelopment and revealed a new mechanism whereby gut bacterial nanoparticles may enter the bloodstream, interacting with the brain and immune systems in both healthy and diseased states.</p> <p>He is now expanding on these findings by focusing on microbiota from MS patients to identify which microbes affect disease progression and understand the mechanisms involved.</p> <h3><a href="https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1004206/ontario-celebrates-exceptional-innovators-with-polanyi-prize">Read more about the Polanyi Prizes</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:14:23 +0000 rahul.kalvapalle 306268 at Three faculty members appointed to the Royal Society of Canada's college for new scholars /celebrates/three-faculty-members-appointed-royal-society-canada-s-college-new-scholars <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Three faculty members appointed to the Royal Society of Canada's college for new scholars</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>s.anderson</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2019-09-10T11:23:01-04:00" title="Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 11:23" class="datetime">Tue, 09/10/2019 - 11:23</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/ecology-evolutionary-biology" hreflang="en">Ecology &amp; Evolutionary Biology</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/biochemistry" hreflang="en">Biochemistry</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/immunology" hreflang="en">Immunology</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/medical-biophysics" hreflang="en">Medical Biophysics</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/julein-evans-carvalho.jpg" width="1140" height="750" alt="Photos of J-Philippe Julien, David Evans and Daniel De Carvalho"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">From left: Jean-Philippe Julien, David Evans and Daniel De Carvalho (photos by Perry King)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Three University of Toronto faculty members have been named to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.</p> <p><strong>Daniel De Carvalho</strong>, <strong>Jean-Philippe Julien</strong> and <strong>David Evans</strong> were recognized by the Royal Society for demonstrating a high level of achievement.&nbsp;De Carvalho is an associate professor in&nbsp;the Faculty of Medicine and a senior scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Julien is&nbsp;an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine and a scientist at the SickKids Research Institute. Evans is an associate professor&nbsp;in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science who oversees dinosaur research at the Royal Ontario Museum.</p> <p>“We’re extremely proud of their admission to the college and look forward to seeing their research make an impact in Canada and beyond,” says <strong>Vivek Goel</strong>, ֱ’s vice-president, research and innovation, and strategic initiatives. “ֱ congratulates them for this impressive appointment.”</p> <h3><a href="/news/three-u-t-faculty-appointed-members-royal-society-canada-s-college-new-scholars">Read the <em>ֱ News</em> story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:23:01 +0000 s.anderson 159904 at Two early-career researchers named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars /celebrates/two-early-career-researchers-named-cifar-azrieli-global-scholars <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Two early-career researchers named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>s.anderson</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2019-09-05T11:29:31-04:00" title="Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 11:29" class="datetime">Thu, 09/05/2019 - 11:29</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/dunlap-institute-astronomy-astrophysics" hreflang="en">Dunlap Institute for Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/immunology" hreflang="en">Immunology</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/biochemistry" hreflang="en">Biochemistry</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/women-stem" hreflang="en">Women in STEM</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/julien-hlozek.jpg" width="1140" height="760" alt="Photos of Jean Philippe Julien and Renée Hložek"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">Jean Philippe Julien (left) and Renée Hložek (photos by Perry King)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Two University of Toronto faculty members have been named&nbsp;2019-2021 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars, an award recognizing early-career researchers&nbsp;on their way to becoming research leaders.</p> <p><strong>Renée Hložek</strong>, an assistant professor of astrophysics at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, and <strong>Jean-Philippe Julien</strong>, an assistant professor in the departments of biochemistry and immunology at the Faculty of Medicine and a scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children, have received a two-year term in a CIFAR research program and $100,000 in support of their research.&nbsp;</p> <p>The award, a professional skills development program,&nbsp;also provides&nbsp;mentorship from a senior researcher&nbsp;and skills training.</p> <h3><a href="/news/two-u-t-researchers-named-cifar-azrieli-global-scholars">Read the <em>ֱ News </em>story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:29:31 +0000 s.anderson 159906 at Tak Mak wins the Gold Leaf Prize for Discovery /celebrates/tak-mak-wins-gold-leaf-prize-discovery <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Tak Mak wins the Gold Leaf Prize for Discovery</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>perry.king</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2019-05-23T16:52:37-04:00" title="Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 16:52" class="datetime">Thu, 05/23/2019 - 16:52</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/princess-margaret-cancer-centre" hreflang="en">Princess Margaret Cancer Centre</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/medical-biophysics" hreflang="en">Medical Biophysics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/immunology" hreflang="en">Immunology</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Tak-Mak_courtesy-of-PMCC-weblead.jpg" width="1140" height="760" alt="Portrait of Tak Mak"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(photo courtesy of University Health Network)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/">University Professor</a> <strong>Tak Mak</strong>, from the departments of medical biophysics and immunology at the Faculty of Medicine, has been named the 2018 recipient of the Gold Leaf Prize for Discovery.</p> <p>The $100,000 prize, from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, recognizes groundbreaking health research and will support new research.</p> <p>Mak, a senior scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, is renowned for a career that has spanned biochemistry, virology, genetics, cancer metabolism and clinical therapy.</p> <p>Earlier this year, his group used genetics to show that the nervous system and immune system communicate through a molecule called acetylcholine. The discovery confirmed a long-suspected, but poorly understood, link between the two systems, opening several new avenues of research.</p> <h3><a href="/news/discover-everything-there-u-t-s-tak-mak-awarded-prestigious-gold-leaf-prize-pioneering-research">Read the <em>ֱ News </em>story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 23 May 2019 20:52:37 +0000 perry.king 160107 at