In Case You Missed It: Dr. Hartland Jackson is mapping tumours, cell by cell, showing how cancer isn’t one disease, but a complex ecosystem where different regions respond differently to treatment. 🔬 Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4qbCIbf #SinaiHealthResearch #CancerResearch

A team co-led by Drs. Daniel Schramek at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute has received a $9M funding boost from TFRI to study how cancer cells evade treatments and design drugs to stop them, ultimately improving patient outcomes. ➡️ bit.ly/4bEhYCV @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social

Congrats to Sinai Health's Drs. Kieran Campbell, Daniel Durocher, Hartland Jackson and Ravi Retnakaran on their CIHR project grants, supporting their continued impact and leadership in health research! 👏 Learn more: bit.ly/4wUZbv9 #CIHR #SinaiHealthResearch

Largest-ever genetic study of #fibromyalgia (2.5M+ ppl) finds dozens genetic factors linked to the condition, pointing to a neurological, not autoimmune, origin. 🧠🧬 Congrats to the Wainberg Lab #LTRI & collaborators on this milestone! Read more: www.sinaihealth.ca/news/largest...

"Why does research matter?" We asked our people who live it every day, from first-year trainees to core facility managers and research leadership. Their answers, in one reel 🎥 #SinaiHealthResearch #LTRI #HealthResearch

🏆 Congratulations to Dr. Alanna Weisman, clinician scientist at Sinai Health on receiving the 2026 International Perugia Diabetes Award (Sid_Italia + Diabetes Research Foundation), honoring outstanding type 1 diabetes research. 👏 #DiabetesResearch #SinaiHealthResearch #T1D

How does the womb environment impact child development? Tracking pregnant mothers & kids to age 5, the ongoing Sinai Health-led Ontario Birth Study has already revealed an impact on children’s brain development, sleep & cognition. 🧬+🌱 Read in @IntJEpidemiol ➡️ bit.ly/4aoarHN

🎉 Congratulations to Sinai Health’s Dr. Katherine Siminovitch on being recognized with the Dean’s Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award for a legacy that bridges science, medicine and the arts. 👏 temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/news/honouri...

Basal-like breast cancer has poor outcomes because we did not know which genes drove it. LTRI-led study out now in @nature.com reveals 81 new genes driving the disease in a major first step towards targeted therapy. 🧬 Read the story➡️ bit.ly/4vohaZY #BLBC

Congratulations to Dr. Darlene Homonko, named an Outstanding Peer Reviewer by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research! 🎉 One of only 13 researchers across Canada recognized for exceptional dedication to peer review and the integrity of health research. #CIHR #PeerReview

💡 New research from Dr. Wendy Wolfman shows menopausal symptoms affect Canadian women equally, whether at typical menopause age or with premature ovarian insufficiency. These symptoms impact quality of life and deserve proactive care. Read the paper ➡️ menopause.org/wp-content/u...

Large global trial finds optimal antibiotics for golden staph bloodstream infections in a potential gamechanger in the fight against antibiotic resistance. 🔬 Sinai Health is a proud contributor. 👏 ⬇️ www.doherty.edu.au/articles/glo...

🧵 1/6 What if the best window to change a child’s lifelong health trajectory is before pregnancy? That’s the idea behind #HeLTI (Healthy Life Trajectory Initiative), led by #LTRI researchers with colleagues & community partners across continents, in Africa, Canada, China & India.

Last night, Sinai Health's Dr. Bernard Zinman took his place in the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, joining the ranks of the country's most celebrated health sciences pioneers. 🏅 Read more about Dr. Zinman outstanding contributions to diabetes care ➡️ www.sinaihealth.ca/news/a-lifet...

👏👏 Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Schramek #LTRI on receiving the prestigious #DorvalPrize from the Canadian Cancer Society for expanding our understanding of cancer & opening doors to new treatments Learn more: cancer.ca/en/research/...

In the News 📣 A recent Toronto Star feature explores the growing impact of GLP-1 therapies and the pioneering research of Dr. Daniel Drucker at Sinai Health’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute that helped make them possible. 🧵1/3

🎉 Congratulations to #LTRI investigator Dr. Alissa Greenwald on receiving the 2026 Banting Discovery Award Banting Discovery Foundation to advance research on the spatial organization of tumours. 👏

🧵1/3 🏀🔬 Science meets sport! Last month, Toronto came together to support vital medical research at Sinai Health’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (LTRI) 💙

Exciting news: gnomAD-Canada v1.0 is live! 🧬 Sinai Health is proud to support this Canadian-led genomic database with 10,487 whole genomes representing Canada’s diverse population, advancing rare disease diagnosis & precision health nationwide. Learn more 👉 datacommons.ca Download 👉 gnomad.ca

🎉 The Research Centre for Women’s and Infants Health Biobank at LTRI marked 20 years with a symposium! Our community came together to share discoveries in women’s and infants’ health, developmental biology and regenerative medicine. Cheers to two decades of impact and much more to come. 🔬💙

Sinai Health–led PRECISE network is working with @who.int to support Canada’s hantavirus response: rapidly activating research, enrolling participants in ON & BC, and collaborating with #UHNResearch & public health agencies to strengthen preparedness. 👉 www.precisenet.ca

1/2 :Dr. Ugo Dionne (Gingras Lab) studies fusion proteins that drive cancer. At the NBCC, he uses live-cell imaging & mass spectrometry to track these proteins and map rewired cellular pathways, building a roadmap toward targeted therapies.

👏 Big congratulations to Sinai Health’s Dr. Daniel Drucker, on receiving the 2026 Lefoulon-Delalande Scientific Prize by the Institut de France, one of the most prestigious honours for contributions to cardiovascular physiology, biology or medicine. Read more: www.sinaihealth.ca/news/dr-dani...

Congratulations to the Collingridge Lab and everyone at LTRI & SickKids involved in this collaborative effort that sheds new light on the genetic underpinnings of social behaviour in autism. Read the SickKids story ➡️ www.sickkids.ca/en/news/arch... #AutismResearch #Neuroscience #ASD

1/5: Sinai Health’s PhD student Joseph Park was selected as one of just 6 presenters at the Society of Obstetric Anesthesia & Perinatology’s annual conference in Montreal! Here’s why his research matters. ⬇️🧵

🎉 The Network Biology Collaborative Centre @nbccltri.bsky.social is now a PacBio Certified Service Provider! This designation reflects strong quality control and expert training in long-read sequencing. Learn more ➡️ nbcc.lunenfeld.ca/Next-Generat... #PacBio #NextGenSequencing #SinaiHealth

1/6: Crohn’s disease may leave biological clues years before symptoms appear. New research led by Drs. Williams Turpin and Ken Croitoru, at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, is bringing early detection closer to reality. 🧵⬇️

1/5: How do we know if someone has a disease or if a treatment is working? 🧬 The answer often comes down to protein biomarkers: measurable signals in the body that reflect what’s happening at the biological level. 🧵⬇️

1/6: With metabolic liver disease projected to impact nearly 2B people globally by 2050, new research from Sinai Health offers a promising breakthrough: GLP-1 drugs can directly reverse the damage caused by this condition 🧵⬇️

Did you know automated paraffin processing can improve histology results? 🔬 The TCP Pathology Core uses the Sakura Tissue-Tek VIP 6 AI Tissue Processor for reproducible, high-throughput tissue preparation. Better processing = better data. TCP services ➡️ phenogenomics.ca