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Announcements, milestones & discoveries
31 stories from across the PRiME community — fellowship awards, funding, partnerships, research breakthroughs, and the people behind the science.
31 articles
SymposiumMarch 13, 2026
PRiME 7th Annual Symposium: A Global Community Accelerating Innovation
PRiME's 7th Annual Symposium brought nearly 200 global attendees to U of T to explore transformative technologies in precision medicine.
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Awards & FellowshipsMay 29, 2025
BoutIQ Solutions Inc. Named Winner of U of T's 2025 Biotech Venture Pitch Competition
BoutIQ Solutions won the 2025 Building a Biotech Venture Grand Prize with an AI-powered platform to optimize cell culture media.
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Awards & FellowshipsApril 21, 2025
Six Teams to Compete for Research Funding at the 2025 Building a Biotech Venture Pitch Competition
Six trainee-led biotech ventures will compete at U of T's Myhal Centre in the 2025 Building a Biotech Venture Pitch Competition.
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SymposiumMarch 24, 2025
PRiME 6th Annual Symposium: A Day of Innovation and Collaboration in Precision Medicine
PRiME's 6th Annual Symposium drew 250 attendees under the theme “Precision X – Discovery to Translation,” with keynotes and fellowship announcements.
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Awards & FellowshipsSeptember 30, 2024
Announcing the Winners of the 2024 PRiME Fellowship – Round 2
PRiME announces three 2024 Round 2 Fellowship recipients pursuing nanopore protein sequencing, glioblastoma drug delivery, and early cancer detection.
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Awards & FellowshipsJune 25, 2024
PRiME Celebrates Professor Molly Shoichet's Appointment as the Inaugural Pamela and Paul Austin Chair in Precision and Regenerative Medicine
Professor Molly Shoichet has been named the inaugural Pamela and Paul Austin Chair in Precision and Regenerative Medicine at U of T.
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ResearchMay 8, 2024
U of T Researcher Discovers Promising New Treatment for Parasitic Worm Infections
Professor Andrew Fraser identified a new class of natural compounds that block a key metabolic pathway in parasitic worms infecting over a billion people.
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FundingMay 6, 2024
BioHubNet Receives $19 Million in Federal Funding to Address HQP Shortage in Biomanufacturing
BioHubNet, led by U of T's Molly Shoichet, received $18.9M in federal funding to train nearly 1,000 workers for Canada's biomanufacturing sector.
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PartnershipsNovember 30, 2023
TIAP and PRiME Collaborate to Accelerate Next-Generation Precision Medicine Ventures in Toronto
TIAP and PRiME announced a strategic partnership combining commercialization expertise and research capabilities to accelerate precision medicine ventures.
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PartnershipsFebruary 15, 2023
adMare BioInnovations and PRiME Collaborate to Translate Academic Research into Life-Changing Therapeutics
adMare BioInnovations and PRiME partnered to translate U of T academic research into new therapeutic products and life-science companies.
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SymposiumOctober 28, 2022
PRiME Successfully Hosts the 4th Annual Symposium
PRiME's 4th Annual Symposium welcomed over 150 attendees for research presentations, fellow lightning talks, and a panel on building life-sciences ventures.
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CommunitySeptember 19, 2022
PRiME Participates in the 42nd Annual Terry Fox Run
Team PRiME participated in the 42nd annual Terry Fox Run, raising $1,500 for cancer research through walking, running, and biking.
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Awards & FellowshipsSeptember 1, 2022
2022 PRiME Fellowship Awardees Announced
PRiME announces its 2022 Fellowship cohort of eight trainees pursuing high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary precision medicine research.
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CommunityApril 25, 2022
PRiME Partners with Let's Talk Science to Host Medical Innovation Discovery Day
PRiME and Let's Talk Science co-hosted Medical Innovation Discovery Day, bringing hands-on nanomedicine activities to 30 Toronto high-school students.
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Awards & FellowshipsNovember 22, 2021
PRiME Trainees Awarded Industry-Partnered Fellowships
Two PRiME trainees received Mitacs Elevate fellowships to advance industry-partnered research in nanobody therapeutics and single-cell proteomics.
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Awards & FellowshipsSeptember 1, 2021
2021 PRiME Fellows Announced
PRiME announces its 2021 Fellowship cohort of ten trainees tackling cancer, neurological disease, COVID-19, and more through interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Awards & FellowshipsJune 14, 2021
2019 PRiME Fellows Honoured with External Funding Awards
Two 2019 PRiME Fellows received prestigious external awards — a Schmidt Science Fellowship and a BrightFocus Vision Grant — recognizing their research.
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ResearchMay 14, 2021
The PRiME TCAI Team Makes Significant Progress on COVID-19 Research
PRiME's COVID-19 task force reports progress across eleven labs developing diagnostics, therapeutics, and manufacturing platforms funded by U of T's $9M action fund.
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PRiME Researchers Partner with TIAP and Amgen Inc. for Biomanufacturing-Focused Project
PRiME Director Shana Kelley and collaborators secured TIAP-Amgen investment to develop a high-throughput microfluidic cell-sorting platform for antibody bioproduction.
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FundingOctober 5, 2020
PRiME Awarded Connaught Global Challenge Funding to Expand Global Partnerships
PRiME received a 2020 Connaught Global Challenge Award to build international precision medicine partnerships with four leading universities.
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CommunitySeptember 28, 2020
PRiME Establishes a Trainee Advisory Committee
PRiME convened its inaugural Trainee Advisory Committee of eight graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to integrate trainee perspectives into programming.
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CommunitySeptember 25, 2020
Team PRiME at the 2020 Terry Fox Run: One Day, Your Way
PRiME team members ran individually in the 2020 virtual Terry Fox Run, surpassing their $2,000 fundraising goal for cancer research.
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Awards & FellowshipsSeptember 1, 2020
2020 PRiME Fellowship Awards
Nine PhD students and postdoctoral fellows received 2020 PRiME Fellowship Awards to pursue high-risk, high-reward precision medicine research.
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PartnershipsAugust 19, 2020
PRiME's Industry-Partnered Fellowship Program Launches With COVID-19 Projects
PRiME launched an Industry-Partnered Fellowship Program, with the first two fellowships supporting COVID-19 diagnostic and surface-detection projects.
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Awards & FellowshipsAugust 7, 2020
Catching Up with the Inaugural 2019 PRiME Fellows
The inaugural 2019 PRiME Fellows made significant scientific progress, with several projects generating follow-on grants totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Start-ups Founded by PRiME Members Attract Major Pharmaceutical Interest
Start-ups co-founded by PRiME faculty Sachdev Sidhu and Jason Moffat attracted major pharmaceutical acquisitions worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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ResearchMarch 30, 2020
PRiME Announces a COVID-19 Task Force on Advanced Diagnostics and New Therapeutics
PRiME formed a COVID-19 Task Force of leading U of T researchers to develop new diagnostics, therapeutics, and shared research resources.
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FundingMarch 10, 2020
PRiME Faculty Awarded Research Funding to Address COVID-19
PRiME faculty Dev Sidhu and Keith Pardee received CIHR grants totalling nearly $1.9 million to develop COVID-19 antibody therapeutics and diagnostics.
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CommunityNovember 26, 2019
PRiME Featured at the Globe and Mail Biotech Innovation Summit
PRiME Director Shana Kelley presented at the Globe and Mail Biomedical Innovation Summit, highlighting gaps in Canadian biotech commercialization and funding.
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FundingOctober 11, 2019
PRiME Faculty Members Granted Team Project Award from Medicine by Design
A PRiME faculty team led by Shana Kelley received a $3.6 million Medicine by Design Team Project Award to advance stem cell-based regenerative therapies.
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Awards & FellowshipsSeptember 6, 2019
PRiME Fellowship Awards: The Inaugural 2019 Cohort
Ten outstanding University of Toronto trainees received the inaugural 2019 PRiME Fellowship Awards to conduct multidisciplinary precision medicine research.
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