An article published by Nature in June, highlights Professor Yu Sun’s (MIE) partnership with SicKids as an example of research success at the University of Toronto:
Leah Cowen, vice-president of research, innovation and strategic initiatives, says that several factors contribute to the University of Toronto’s success. One is a strong emphasis on collaboration; for example, 14 research hospitals belong to the Toronto Academic Health Science Network, which brings researchers and clinicians together to develop and test treatments. This year, University of Toronto researchers partnered with clinician scientists at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto to explore the use of magnetically guided robotic nanoscalpels to target the cancer cells in a type of brain tumour called glioblastoma.