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The Hospital for Sick Children ( HSC ), corporately branded as SickKids, is a major pediatric teaching hospital located on University Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto, the hospital was ranked the top pediatric hospital in the world by Newsweek in 2021. [1]
The Centre for Applied Genomics is a genome centre in the Research Institute of The Hospital for Sick Children, and is affiliated with the University of Toronto. TCAG also operates as a Science and Technology Innovation Centre of Genome Canada, [1] with an emphasis on next-generation sequencing (NGS) and bioinformatics support.
Stephen W. Scherer. Stephen Wayne "Steve" Scherer (born January 5, 1964) is a Canadian scientist who currently serves as the Chief of Research at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and distinguished University Professor at the University of Toronto. [1] He obtained his PhD at the University of Toronto under Professor Lap-chee Tsui.
Janet Rossant. Janet Rossant, CC, FRS, FRSC (born 13 July 1950) [1] is a developmental biologist well known for her contributions to the understanding of the role of genes in embryo development. She is a world renowned leader in developmental biology. [2] Her current research interests focus on stem cells, molecular genetics, and developmental ...
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Institutions named (or formerly named) Hospital for Sick Children include: The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto), a children's and teaching hospital in Canada. Victoria Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, a former hospital. Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. Evelina London Children's Hospital, London.
Johanna Rommens is a Canadian geneticist who was on the research team which identified and cloned the CFTR gene, which when mutated, is responsible for causing cystic fibrosis (CF). She later discovered the gene responsible for Shwachman-Diamond syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes pancreatic and hematologic problems. [1]
The Toronto hospital baby deaths were a series of suspicious deaths that occurred in the Cardiac Ward of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between July 1980 and March 1981. The deaths started after a cardiology ward had been divided into two new adjacent wards.