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Join us at Innis Town Hall for an exciting symposium on Food Science! Hear from 4 experts on personalized nutrition, social/environmental impacts of food choices, and more. Attendees can interact with speakers, participate in workshops, and enjoy dinner.

🎉Five transplant scientists receive $2 million inaugural Di Poce Research Scholars Awards in transplantation research. Read here via University Health Network: ow.ly/tWpr50OAFah UHN Foundation #transplant #womenintransplant #research #innovation

Today I had the absolute honour of representing Institute of Medical Science as 1 of 2 Prospective Student Ambassadors for the IMS along side Sajeevan.S at our first recruitment fair in these new roles!

We're thrilled to introduce Alex Alex Boshart and Sajeevan Sajeevan.S our new Prospective Student Ambassadors and current PhD students. They're experienced and enthusiastic representatives for prospective IMS gradate students. Find out more here: ims.utoronto.ca/prospective-st…

Toronto is already a powerhouse in life sciences research because of the commitment of UofT, University Health Network, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), CAMH , Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre , Unity Health Toronto and other academic medical centres. Canadian government needs to step up its ambition and invest

#UofT fifth in the world, first among North American public universities: NTU rankings 🌎 uoft.me/9D

I always get asked what does research look like, cause this position is never a 9-5. Here, I highlight "A week in my life", as a #PhD student at Institute of Medical Science. It's a combination of research, coursework, teaching, extracurriculars, and personal life.

Check out this month's “Week in the Life of an IMS Graduate Student” video short featuring Alex Boshart, PhD Candidate and Prospective Student Ambassador. Alex's research focuses on kidney transplant rejection. 🔬👨‍🔬🧫

Check out the latest issue of our Prospective Student Newsletter, featuring IMSSA Raw Talk Podcast IMS Magazine and more! mailchi.mp/utoronto/imsja…

Check out the latest Week in the Life of an IMS Grad Student video short featuring Anisa Nazir, PhD candidate and co-lead of our Ori Rotstein Lecture in Translational Research 2023. #gradlife #PhD #studentlife

Thanks Institute of Medical Science for hosting such a lovely and interactive PhD cohort event! And thank you to the organizers who helped make it happen Sajeevan.S Alex Boshart - looking forward to the next one (hopefully with more trivia 😊)

Toronto General Hospital Research Institute’s Drs. Ana Konvalinka and Sergi Clotet-Freixas (SergiClotetFreixas) led an international team of researchers to explore novel sex-differences in kidney metabolism that has revealed sex-specific outcomes in diabetic #KidneyDisease > uhnresearch.ca/news/decoding-…; doi.org/10.1126/scitra…

Congratulations to IMS PhD Candidates Alex Boshart, Nairy Khodabakhshian and Sajeevan.S for receiving the 2024 Roncari Prize for making significant contributions to the academic experience of IMS graduate students. ims.utoronto.ca/roncari-prize

We had a great time hearing from our accomplished panelists and networking with fellow IMS and Sick Kids trainees at our IMS Connects: Working in Industry event on Monday. Thanks to everyone who joined us!

Join us for breakfast on July 25 for our next IMS Research Rounds to hear about the exciting kidney research our graduate students are conducting. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

We had a great time at this morning's IMS Research Rounds hearing about the exciting kidney research our graduate student presenters are working on!

Congratulations🎉to Dr. Ana Konvalinka and her Post-doctoral Fellow Kieran Manion on winning the CST Mentor and Mentee Award at The Transplantation Society meeting in Istanbul. (Presented by Dr. Atul Humar) #MentorMenteeAward #TTS2024 #CSTAward #TeamATC #UHN #WIT

It was very fulfilling to represent the Konvalinka Lab, Ajmera Transplant Centre UHN and Institute of Medical Science at the annual CST Transplantation meeting in Montreal last week! Thank you to everyone who presented and asked interesting questions at my poster!

🚨Apparently all NIH Study Sections have been suspended indefinitely. For those who don’t know, this means there won’t be any review of grants submitted to NIH Depending on how long this goes on for, this could lead to an interruption in billions in research funding.

Congratulations Alex Boshart on receiving the ORT Conference Participation Award! Alex is a PhD student in Dr. Ana Konvalinka's lab at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute. He studies antibody-mediated rejection in kidney transplantation with a focus on endothelial cells and glomerular damage.