Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik and a group of scientists and industry partners are developing a digital app that could improve the accuracy of COVID-19 contact tracing.

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.