Awardees from SickKids
Professors Julie Forman-Kay, Simon Sharpe, P. Lynne Howell and John Rubinstein were awarded new CFI funds to help bring new technology to SickKids.
Professors Julie Forman-Kay, and Simon Sharpe, received more than $1.6 million to build on the SickKids Structural and Biophysical Core (SBC) facility. These new funds will support critical enhancements to cutting-edge research, knowledge creation, and training across biology and biophysics, including immunogen design for improved vaccines; inhibition of multidrug-resistant bacteria; targeting cardiovascular diseases; and roles of phase-separation in neurological disorders and cancer.
Professors P. Lynne Howell and John Rubinstein, were awarded more than $7.5 million for a project called the Single Particle CryoEM Analysis Project (SPaCEMAP), which fund new electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM) equipment. CryoEM is now enabling determination of the atomic structures of molecules that have evaded traditional approaches.
