So great to hear from Yassi Aghazadeh about the amazing work being done in the Aghazadeh's lab IRCM #TMM2024 And, I hear they are hiring!

Congratulations Michelle 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 well-deserved!

Congratulations to Homaira Hamidzada well-deserved best trainee oral presentation in a plenary session, the Connie Eaves award #TMM2024 Slava Epelman Toronto General Hospital Research Institute

Thanks to Alex Cho from the Nostro Lab for sharing why diabetes research matters to him for #WorldDiabetesDay. Tell us why diabetes research matters to *you* in the comments!

Thrilled to share one of our biggest discoveries: “Inceptor binds to and directs insulin towards lysosomal degradation in beta cells”. doi.org/10.1038/s42255… A tremendous collaborative effort led by Johanna Siehler, Sára Bileková and other members of the Heiko Lickert lab.

18-29 years and living with #T1D in ON? You might be interested in this. Designed in partnership with diabuddies

So excited to share the first paper from the lab! We identified CD34 as a marker of the heart’s SAN pacemaker cells enabling their isolation from stem cell differentiation cultures, advancing future disease modeling and biological pacemaker applications. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Sana Biotechnology's first-in-human study of hypoimmune-engineered deceased donor islets shows insulin production & immune evasion without immunosuppression #Diabetes #T1D #CellTherapy ir.sana.com/news-releases/…

Fantastic turn out for the 🗽 #StandUpForScience2025 peaceful protest. Sad to know that many chose not to attend for fear of deportation. Don't be silent!

News of the first NIH grant cuts at Columbia medical center have come in. Center grants (including of the diabetes center where I am), training grants for PhD students. PhD students are certainly not the reason for federal budget woes, they are among the most altruistically

The next BBDC Trainee Lab Seminar Series is on April 11 at 12pm at the Toronto General Hospital. Majid Mufaqam Syed Abdul from Dr. Gary Lewis' lab, Haiyang Huang from Nostro Lab and Nitya Gulati from Jonathan Rocheleau lab will present their latest research. bbdc.org/events/bbdc-tr…

A huge congratulations to Daniel J Drucker for winning the breakthrough prize for his work that has led to one of the most exciting medicines ever created. An important achievement for an impressive Canadian Scientist breakthroughprize.org/News/91

Join us for a fun 5K walk on May 31st to support UHN and meet all the amazing scientists working at Team McEwen McEwen Stem Cell Institute UHN Research wewalkuhnited.ca/s/2520/2765/t

Coming soon! The Reviewer in Training program offers early career researchers the opportunity to learn about the peer review process at CIHR while gaining valuable experience participating in high-quality reviews. Accepting applications July 9 to Aug. 6: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/52323.html?h…

📣 Early career researchers! Apply now to participate in the Reviewer in Training program as a Mentee or an ECR Reviewer. Deadline is August 6 Learn more: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/52291.html?h… #EarlyCareerResearchers #PeerReview

Join us for the 2025 Rachmiel Levine-Arthur Riggs Diabetes Research Symposium. We have an amazing program this year focusing on type 1 #diabetes. We have also extended the abstract submission deadline to Sept 19. Register and submit your abstract a levinesymposium.com

[please retweet] I’m #hiring! The Millman Lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to lead an exciting new project focused on vascularized #stemcell-derived islets for #diabetes disease modeling and cell replacement therapy. Email me your CV and cover letter.

Friday September 26 Temerty Medicine Sinai Health The 2025 Gerard N Burrow Lecture. Professor Alvin Powers #islets #diabetes #T1D #T2D Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt Health 8 am Mt. Sinai Join us! Al Powers

So honored to receive the 2025 Till & McCulloch Award @ #TMM2025 Stem Cell Network Huge thanks to Adriana Migliorini and all the present and past members of my lab! UHN Research McEwen Stem Cell Institute U of T Physiology

🌟 New opportunity - Fourteen summer studentships are available for undergraduate and med students to carry out summer research in diabetes under the supervision of a member of the BBDC. Learn more! bbdc.org/funding/fundin…