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Your source for COVID-19 news from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto 

April 8, 2020 | Volume 28, Number 14

Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com, Unsplash

COVID-19: The Essential Pivot

 
Like many sectors, science and medicine are pivoting — and fast.

Students are designing apps and coordinating volunteers. Engineers are retooling for medical devices. Lab scientists are laser-focused, scaling up any and all COVID-19 research. 

On the front-lines of the pandemic surge, our clinical faculty and trainees are facing their own essential pivots — as practice guidelines evolve, as specialists are redeployed across the system and as individual providers make critical decisions in patient care.

Clinicians need access to the right information at the right time, to make these decisions and transitions effectively. Here’s what the Faculty of Medicine is doing to meet that demand.

Read the message from Dean Trevor Young.
Trevor Young 
Dean, Faculty of Medicine 
Vice Provost, Relations with Health Care Institutions  
 
Get recent Faculty of Medicine updates on COVID-19

News

Toronto Research Ramps up on Blood Test to Screen for COVID-19 Immunity


A team of researchers at Sinai Health and the University of Toronto is in the early stages of developing a blood test that can identify who is immune to COVID-19 on a mass scale.

New Web Portal Aims to Connect Study Participants to COVID-19 Research


Two U of T alumni have created a web portal to connect COVID-19 researchers with potential research study participants. 

Creative Destruction Lab Launches Program to Accelerate Innovations that Address COVID-19  


The Creative Destruction Lab at U of T has created a new program to rapidly transform scientific innovations into products and services that address public health and economic challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
 

CRIS Research Roundup: A Digest of Weekly Communications for the Research & Innovation Community


U of T's Centre for Research & Innovation Support has begun a weekly digest of key research and innovation-related news. This week’s roundup includes research alerts about funding calls and program changes, and a spotlight page on resources for COVID-19 research.

Wellness Wednesdays 😎

 

Graduate Student Wellness Grant


This $10,000 grant encourages graduate students and faculty to work collectively, across departments, to facilitate student mental health and well-being through innovative and sustainable initiatives to improve the graduate student experience in the Faculty of Medicine.

Application deadline is May 1, 2020.

Across Canada: Universities and COVID-19 🇨🇦

 

Speed Dating Between COVID-19 and Drug Hopefuls at uOttawa 


Scientists at the University of Ottawa including Professor Marceline Côté have a three-step plan to find vulnerabilities in the virus that causes COVID-19, match them with a drug, then test their candidates in vivo.

Read more university research stories and education stories from other Canadian universities on the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada website.
What Would Don Do?

Physician assistant Maureen Taylor reflects on the late Professor Donald Low's experience with SARS, public health in Ontario and pandemic preparedness, in CMAJ Blogs.
Photo by Joe Cicak/Getty Images

Can UV Light Help Hospitals Disinfect Masks and Gowns? U of T Researcher Explains


As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, hospitals are finding themselves short of masks, gowns and other personal protective equipment. Some are doing what would previously have been unthinkable — disinfecting and reusing PPE.

One way to do this is with ultraviolet light, which is already used to disinfect patient rooms and operating theatres. In theory, it could also be applied to disinfect PPE, but as Professor Ron Hofmann explains, the devil is in the details.

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