2/27/2025, The Toronto Star – Rebooting the system: Why culturally inclusive care matters
12/17/2024, The Toronto Star – Building bridges: New initiatives aim to improve medical support for Black communities
09/19/2024, The Hamilton Spectator – ‘A deeply rooted distrust’: Black patients have far less access to living kidney donors and researchers say racism is partly to blame
06/01/2024, 680 News – Segment on MS research at the Morshead lab
05/22/2024, CTV News – A possible new treatment for multiple sclerosis
05/14/2024, CityNews – New trial at SickKids explores how diabetes drug may help multiple sclerosis patients
01/08/2024, The Hill Times – Canada’s biomedical brain drain is reversing. Let’s continue that trend, Op-ed by Allison Brown, executive director, Medicine by Design and Michael May, president and CEO, CCRM (PDF version)
08/01/2023, The Globe & Mail – Scientists are on a quest to map the human body cell by cell, charting where and why disease happens
07/21/2023, The Toronto Star – Meet the U of T researcher who survived catastrophe and is now creating ‘super cells’
07/11/2023, Toronto Star – Creating a Google Map of the human body
07/04/2023, CTV News – Toronto researchers part of human cell atlas project
06/21/2023, CTV News – Innovative brain injury treatments (Interview with Liliana Attisano)
05/2023, CP24 – Live interview with Maryam Faiz for MS Awareness Month
05/03/2023, CityNews – New gene therapy being developed at University of Toronto could treat MS
04/20/2023, The Toronto Star – Canadian scientists discovered stem cells — now give them the tools to end diabetes, Op-ed by Michael Sefton, Scientific Director, Medicine by Design, and Bradly Wouters, Executive Vice President, science and research, University Health Network.
03/28/2023, MIT Technology Review – Engineer aims to eradicate diabetes
02/12/2023, CTV News – Researcher Stephanie Protze highlights pacemaker research
12/22/2022, Toronto Star – Tech trends: Things to watch for in 2023
11/19/2022, CTV News – Diabetes Awareness Month: Interview with Sara Vasconcelos
10/12/2022, CTV News – World Sight Day interview on treating vision diseases with Molly Shoichet
10/5/2022, The Hill Times – There are no overnight successes in science: medical research needs more stable funding, Op-ed by Michael Sefton, Scientific Director, Medicine by Design (PDF version)
7/20/2022, Toronto Star – Meet the U of T neuroscientist helping the brain heal itself
07/19/2022, MaRS Magazine – Biotech boom: 4 ways stem cells are changing how we treat disease
6/19/2022, CTV News – Interview with Cindi Morshead on research for stroke patients
6/9/2022, Moose Jaw Today – The self-healing brain: Cutting-edge research could heal strokes, TBIs, Alzheimer’s
6/6/2022, CP24 – Brain Injury Awareness Month interview with Cindi Morshead
5/18/2022, Toronto Star – Canada aims to get a slice of the growing global market for cell and gene therapies
3/24/2022, Innovating Canada/National Post – New Alliances Emerge to Tackle Tough Problems
12/22/2021, Toronto Star – Seven tech trends to watch in 2022
11/13/2021, CBC Radio, Quirks & Quarks – 100 years after insulin treatment was invented, researchers hope to ditch needles once and for all
8/13/2020, Cell & Gene Therpy Insights – Challenges in the adoption of regenerative medicine therapies, meeting summary
11/16/2016, Policy Options – Health care system needs a new research model, Op-ed by Charles Haynes, Christopher Yip, Michael Sefton and Peter Zandstra
7/28/2016, Toronto Star – $114M grant to fund cutting-edge stem cell research at U of T
1/31/2016, CBC News – Canada’s stem cell research needs ‘big investment’ to move forward, experts say
7/28/2015, The Globe and Mail – Researchers hope $114-million grant will make Toronto a hub for stem cell research
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