Happy Holidays from the ORT

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Holiday Social - Distillery Winter Village
Join us for a social outing to the Distillery Winter Village and participate in the Great Gingerbread Hunt! | December 15, 3:00 PM | Register

Project and Time Management
Develop and implement your Project and Time Management skills at this 2-part workshop hosted by the ORT and Mitacs
January 19 & February 2, 2:00 PM | Register

UHN Summer Training and Research (STAR) Awards
Awards will subsidize summer research positions for students displaced from Ukraine or from backgrounds historically underrepresented in STEM. Interested UHN scientists are invited to complete the expression of interest form by December 19, 5:00 PM
More information & Expression of Interest Form

EVENTS

Crack the Case - A Webinar for Advanced Degrees
Learn about careers in consulting and case interviews
December 13, 7:00 PM | Register

Career Seminar Series: Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Learn about careers in Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital
December 14, 6:30 PM | Register

Princess Margaret Seminar Series
Speaker: Lee Zou, Professor, Harvard Medical School
Title: Impact of transcript and RNA on DNA repair
December 15, 4:00 PM | Tune into MS Teams or attend in-person at 610 University Ave, 6th floor Bob Bell Auditorium

Virtual Art Therapy Sessions
Hosted by Wellness@UHN, the EmpowART Foundation and the University of Toronto
Every 2nd Saturday of the Month, 5:00 PM | Register

2022 Ted Rogers Centre Heart Failure Symposium
Attend Canada's biggest conference dedicated to heart failure. Hybrid event. Registration is free with promo code "UHN" | December 16-17 | Register

Beyond Sciences Initiative: Science & Society Conference (Free, international, online conference)
Present your research and network with a broad scientific audience | February 25-26
Submit an abstract by December 17

OPPORTUNITIES

CIHR (REDI) Early Career Transition Award
The Research Excellence, Diversity, and Independence (REDI) Early Career Transition Award aims to help researchers from underrepresented groups launch their research faculty careers in Canada.
Info session December 19, 1:00 PM | Information

Course: Neuroimaging and Fluid Biomarkers
10-week workshop on biomarkers for neurodegenerative disease
January 10 - March 14 | Information & Registration

The Vertex Fellows Program
A unique opportunity for early career scientists to learn about and contribute to drug discovery at Vertex.
One-year exploratory industrial post-doc program
Apply by January 13 | Information & Application

The Branco Weiss Fellowship (Society in Science)
Opportunity for postdocs who have conceived an original and independent research idea that falls outside the scope of large-scale research projects.
Apply by January 15 | Information & Application

COMMUNITY

Congratulations Dr. Germann!

Dr. Jurgen Germann is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Dr Lozano. Making use of his expertise in imaging, advanced data modelling, statistics and machine learning Jurgen studies the correlates and predictors of outcomes of neuromodulatory treatments with a special focus on Alzheimer’s disease.

Congratulations Kyla!

Kyla Bruce is a graduate student in Dr. Tony Lam's lab at Toronto General Hospital Research Institute. Kyla studies whether the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) of the brainstem is a crucial site for leptin action in regulating glucose homeostasis in short-term high-fat fed rats.

To share upcoming events or opportunities with the UHN research community, please fill out this form or email ort.admin@uhnresearch.ca.

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