Education professor receives funding to pursue equity in regenerative medicine

With Dr. Istvan Mucsi of University Health Network, James will lead a team that was among six that received a collective $1 million from Medicine by Design (MBD), a strategic hub for regenerative medicine research at the University of Toronto.  The project sprung from a series of workshops organized by MBD’s Convergent Working Group, which […]

York mathematician receives federal grant to advance mpox research in Canada

A York University mathematician has received nearly half a million dollars from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) to better predict and assess future outbreaks of mpox and other zoonotic threats (infectious diseases that jump from animals to humans). Woldegebriel Assefa Woldegerima, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the […]

What is happening on Mars?

John Moores, a York Research Chair in Space Exploration and professor at the Lassonde School of Engineering, is investigating the mysterious discovery of gas on what was thought to be a dead planet. It turns out there is a lot of unexplained activity happening on Mars. Moores specializes in the atmospheric chemistry of planets within […]