News from September 2011

Dr. Lye Received Connaught Global Health Challenge Award

September 1, 2011

One of the prediction team members, Dr. Stephen Lye, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Toronto and associate director of the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, received the 2011 inaugural Connaught Global Health Challenge Award. The $1-million fund will enable him and his colleagues to create the Institute for Human Development to explore how early environments can affect health.

Stephen’s work and research accomplishments were featured in the Globe and Mail on Thursday August, 4th 2011, and by the UofTMagazine Summer 2011 edition.

Please see the Globe and Mail Feature link here

Please see the UofT Maganzine Feature link here

HYRS Student in the Slater Lab

September 1, 2011

A 2011 Heritage Youth Researcher Summer (HYRS) Program grade 11 student, Marya Aman, was able to participate in the PreHOT work in Dr. Donna Slater’s Lab this summer. Marya was feature in a media event on Tuesday, August 16/17, 2011 .

Marya’s project will help Slater’s team understand how uterus cells contract and relax, that might help us inhibit contractions in cases of preterm labour.

Please see the Calgary Herald article here

Metz Lab Summer Updates

September 1, 2011

At the CCBN Symposium on Friday, August 26th 2011, Sophia Vathracoulis (a summer student with Drs. Metz and Benzies) won the first prize in her presentation on her summer project on a new maternal score for gestational stress increases detachment in rat mothers.

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The Metz lab was very fortunate to be featured in the July 2011 issue of Scientific American in a cover story about the effects of stress (“Toll from Stress”). The journalist of this article, Brian Mossop, was very interested to learn about our team’s research.