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PI: Yee, Amanda
Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics can advance healthcare and quality of life. The application of these technologies in geriatric medicine, care of older adults, is important as health needs b…
PI: Sears, Carly S
Chronic non-cancer pain, encompassing several multifaceted conditions, imposes substantial personal and societal burden worldwide, with yearly costs of approximately $40 billion in Canada alone. Due …
Childhood brain cancer occurs at a critical stage of physical and cognitive development. Although treatments have improved in the past two decades, the severity of the disease and the intensity of th…
PI: Leung, Chelsea
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR associated protein 9 (Cas9) is a gene-editing technology that can be used to treat disease. One impactful potential applicati…
PI: Gupta, Keshav
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft-tissue cancer in children and has a particularly poor prognosis with a 5 year survival rate of 30% in individuals with metastatic (spreading throughout …
PI: Lowe, Catherine
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects up to 10% of children, characterized by inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity symptoms. Perinatal …
A Three Dimensional Evaluation of NK cell Prognostic Impact on High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer
Among all gynecological malignancies high-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC) is the deadliest and most common. It is nicknamed the silent killer because it is detected at later stages and has a poor survi…
PI: Russell, Emily L
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects 17% of Canadians aged 40 years, and is characterized by abnormal circulating levels of systemic and lung-specific inflammatory biomarkers, which i…
Association of occupation with lung function decline in high-, middle-, and low-income countries
PI: Moinuddin, Ali
The World Health Organization and International Labour Organization (WHO/ILO) have attributed 1.9 million deaths globally to occupational exposures in 2016. The long-term effects of many occupational…
PI: Al Sharani, Sara
Background: Unhealthy food marketing to children adversely affects their diet quality and health. The negative impacts of this marketing may be amplified on digital media, which allows industry to us…
PI: Yu, Richard X
A concussion, also known as a mild traumatic brain injury, is caused by biomechanical forces. Due to the complexity of this injury, many individuals with a concussion still have persistent symptoms p…
The Human Milk Oligosaccharide Status in Women With and Without Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
PI: Churchill, Megan
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is a maternal intolerance to glucose (a simple sugar) that can develop during the second to third trimester of pregnancy (20-32 weeks). Human milk (HM) is consider…
PI: Forder, Aisling
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a cancer that forms in the throat at the level of the nose. The location of the tumour makes it very difficult to detect early, when it is still small, as it does no…
PI: Liu, Mingxin
Rationale: Ageism, i.e., ;stereotype, prejudice, and discrimination directly towards people because of their age, may contribute to various adverse health outcomes and increase the burden on health a…