
Mandate renewed for Canada-wide drug safety consortium based at the LDI
A renewed five-year mandate has been granted to a national consortium on prescription drug safety that is headquartered in the Lady Davis Institute at the JGH.

Pioneering effort to apply novel biotechnology to cancer research
The effort to find new biomarkers for cancer has received a major boost with the recent arrival at Lady Davis Institute of Dr. Christoph Borchers and the development of the first pan-Canadian proteomics program.

Research roundup
Dr. Roderick McInnes, Director of the Lady Davis Institute at the JGH, has received the 2015 Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Education from the American Society of Human Genetics.

In memoriam
The entire JGH family is saddened by the loss on Feb. 5 of philanthropist Neri Judith Bloomfield, 90.