Quarterly Highlights: January to March 2021

Celebrations & Successes

Gita Wahi was recently named to the executive committee of the Canadian Pediatric Inpatient Research Network, (PIRN) as Lead of Research Activities (2021-24).

Publications

For recent publications from MODR investigators, please see our Research page.

In the News

TVO documentary “Trust me, I’m a doctor” features research by Stuart Phillips, from the Faculty of Science, on lighter weights.

Andrew McArthur, member of the Ontario Rapid Response Genomics Coalition for COVID-19, is featured in the CTV article “WHO team in Wuhan tracks coronavirus origins as new variants rack up cases” and Toronto Star article “If dangerous COVID variants were spreading widely in Ontario, would we know? Why scientists are worried“

Andrew McArthur talks with TVO about COVID-19 and mutations, and what Ontario should do to avoid a third wave with even higher case counts 

Andrew McArthur is featured in CTV News segment “Battle against the variants”

Andrew McArthur describes how important the new PCR tests are for COVID-19 data modeling “There’s a new PCR test that detects COVID-19 variants in Ontario. Here’s how it works”