Research Clusters

Childhood Cancer
Investigators are working to identify and target the genetic and molecular alterations that disrupt signal transduction pathways and give rise to childhood and reproductive cancers. [more...]

Diabetes, Nutrition & Metabolism
Diabetes investigators perform basic and clinical research aimed at understanding the causes and improving the treatment of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Nutrition and metabolism researchers focus on how dietary components alone, and in combination with genotype and environmental factors, influence maternal health and child development and health. [more...]

Developmental Neurosciences & Child Health
Investigators have research interests on topics that range from “neurons to neighbourhoods,” including behavior and cognition, basic and clinical child neurosciences, child development... [more...]

Genetics & Health
Researchers are studying the genetics of conditions such as psychiatric disorders, intellectual and behavioural disabilities, cancers, birth defects and single gene disorders. [more...]

Immunity in Health & Disease
Researchers are working in basic, translational and clinical research areas to create and implement better vaccines, to understand why children develop infections, to prevent and treat autoimmune
diseases such as type 1 diabetes (T1D) and systemic lupus (SLE), and to understand the mechanisms underlying inflammatory bowel diseases. [more...]

Innovations in Acute Care & Technology
Basic, clinical, and population health researchers in anesthesia, cardiology, critical care, emergency, and surgical specialties aim to enhance the quality of care for children. [more...]

Reproduction & Healthy Pregnancy
Researchers in the Reproduction & Healthy Pregnancy cluster work towards understanding infertility, early pregnancy loss, fetal development, pregnancy complications, preterm birth, the newborn
period, infancy, pre- and post-partum depression and reproductive cancers. [more...]

Last updated: 08/27/2009