PhD candidate Rahul Arora received University of Toronto Libraries Graduate Student Exhibition Competition Awards with two other graduate students.

Deep Genomics, an artificial intelligence-powered drug discovery start-up co-founded by Professor Brendan Frey, recently raised $40 million in Series B funding, Betakit reports.

President Meric Gertler is inviting the U of T community to join a national moment of silence on Jan. 15 in memory of those who died in the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 in Iran last week.

Professors Sheila McIlraith, Toniann Pitassi, Associate Professor Anna Goldenberg, Assistant Professors Jakob Foerster, Animesh Garg, Chris Maddison, and Gennady Pekhimenko have been named CIFAR AI Chairs.

Professor Gary Bader and Assistant Professor Hannes Röst received US$150,000 each to create a cloud-based Cytoscape and Open MS from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, co-founded by Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his spouse, Priscilla Chan.

Deep Genomics, the genetic medicine startup founded by Professor Brendan Frey, was one of five Canadian companies that cracked the 2019 CNBC Upstart 100 list unveiled on Tuesday, a ranking of the world's most promising startups.

Assistant Professors Sanja Fidler and Marzyeh Ghassemi are part of a discussion on how U of T researchers and counterparts in Philips can potentially pool their expertise and resources to work towards their common goal of revolutionizing health care, especially in the intersection of AI, computer science, data science and the medical space.

Medicine by Design is strengthening the University of Toronto as a global leader in regenerative medicine with a new investment of as much as $20 million in research that will accelerate stem cell and gene therapy, advance understanding of how the body repairs itself and generate new technologies that will propel the field for decades. One of funded research includes projects aimed at using stem cells to regenerate damaged livers, co-led by Professor Bary Bader.

The University of Toronto and the affiliated Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence have announced the recruitment of two rising stars, Assistant Professors Chris Maddison (Summer 2020) and Jakob Foerster (Fall 2020) in machine learning research as part of a continued drive to assemble the best AI talent in the world.

To accelerate progress in labs all over the world, Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik wants researchers to embrace laboratories that can make smart decisions all on their own.

The BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI will stage high-profile events, explore new ways for the arts to embrace cutting-edge technology and train the next generation of tech-savvy leaders