Donnelly in the Media

A selection of earned media stories mentioning the Centre and its researchers

screenshot of Prof Stagljar's appearance on CTV News

July 2022

COVID-19 immunity research by Donnelly Centre investigator Igor Stagljar was widely featured in the media as Canada entered a new wave driven by Omicron variants:

 

Researchers in Professor Derek van der Kooy's lab solved a long-standing mystery of how worms tell different smells apart:

screenshot of Prof Morshead's appearance on CTV News

June 2022

Donnelly Centre investigator Cindi Morshead explains how her research could help stroke sufferers:

molly shoicet in the donnelly

March 2022

University Professor and Donnelly Centre investigator Molly Shoichet is featured in Canadian Living on International Women's Day:

January 2022

Donnelly Centre investigator Cindi Morshead discusses her collaborative research that seeks to spur the brain to repair itself after a stroke injury:

December 2021

Donnelly Centre investigator Philip Kim's research on mirror-image peptides with anti-viral potential is featured in the press:

November 2021

Donnelly Centre investigator Michael Sefton's diabetes research is featured in:

 

The rapid "firefly" antibody test for COVID-19 developed in Professor Igor Stagljar's lab is featured in the Toronto Star:

 

Alumni PhD student and science communicator Samantha Yammine and AI expert and Professor Brendan Frey are named among the 50 most influential Torontonians of 2021 by the Toronto Life magazine:

March 2021

A "firefly test" for measuring the level of coronavirus antibodies in blood and developed by Donnelly Centre investigator Igor Stagljar and his team has been featured in the news:

February 2021

University Professor and Donnelly Centre investigator Molly Shoichet talked to The Globe and Mail about her startup company AmacaThera planing human trials of an engineered injectable gel for postsurgery pain treatment:

​​​​​​​Donnelly Centre investigator Tim Hughes and his team have discovered that the African coelacanth evolved dozens of new genes in its recent evolutionary history from traveling DNA passed on from other species:

January 2021

An interdisciplinary team of Toronto researchers led by Donnelly Centre investigator Gary Bader has found that brain tumour formation might be linked to tissue healing following an injury: