Biochemistry Departmental Retreat 2022
Our first in person Departmental Retreat in 3 years took place this past week! On September 21st, many of our talented faculty and trainees presented posters at the David Naylor Student Commons. On September 22nd, members of the department traveled to Centre Island to hear talks from our trainees, faculty, and invited speakers. A Biochemistry Olympics event was also held on the island!
Here are some highlights […]
Biochemistry Department Awards
We are pleased to announce this years winners:
Centennial Award in honour of Sela Cheifetz: Brandon Payliss (Wyatt Lab)
Connell Award for Best All-Round Postdoctoral Fellow: Dixon Ng (Moraes Lab)
Connell Award for Top Graduate Student Publication of 2021: Kamran Rizzolo and Angela Yu (Houry Lab) for their paper
Functional cooperativity between the trigger factor chaperone and the ClpXP proteolytic complex Nature Communications 2021.
David A. Scott Award: Elaine Thai (Julien Lab)
Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis […]
Biochemistry – May 2022 Newsletter
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2022 TATP Excellence Award Recipient – Alexa Fitzpatrick
The Department of Biochemistry is proud to announce that Alexa Fitzpatrick is 1 of 5 recipients of the 2022 TATP Excellence Award, recognizing the outstanding achievements of Teaching Assistants at the University of Toronto. As a TA in BCH210H and BCH311H, Alexa has taught over a thousand students in the life sciences programs, which will have a lasting impact on their careers […]
April Newsletter 2022
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November Newsletter 2021
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Professor Julie Forman-Kay elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society
The Biochemistry Department is pleased to report that Professor Julie Forman-Kay has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of her internationally renowned studies of the dynamic structures, interactions and functions of intrinsically disordered proteins. Congratulations!

SickKids-led researchers receive numerous grants from the Canada Foundation for Innovation
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 […]

Latest Platform Support Grant to the Attisano Lab to make advanced brain models
Together with the Krembil Foundation, Brain Canada awarded a Platform Support Grant (PSG) to a team spearheaded by Professor Liliana Attisano. She will be receiving $1,425,000 to support the Applied Organoid Core (ApOC), an organoid production platform for modelling human brain development and disorders.