Greater Toronto SABC finalist Colin Carter has long been intrigued by the human immune system. And this year’s competition gave him the opportunity to conduct leading-edge research at Toronto’s famed Hospital for Sick Children on a challenging auto-immune disease called Kawasaki Disease. In auto-immune diseases, the body attacks itself because it can’t tell the difference [...]

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For release: Thursday, April 8, 2010 Innovative research that could lead to an improved treatment for a childhood autoimmune disease has earned a 17-year-old student from Northern Secondary School the first place prize in the 2010 Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge (SABC) in the Greater Toronto region. Grade 12 student Colin Carter won the $2500 cash prize [...]

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Once again, the TBI Explore Biotechnology lectures and Merck Frosst Exploring Minds workshops, held concurrently with the SABC competition, will be available free of charge, to high school classes accompanied by their teachers. The lectures and workshops are made available by the generous sponsorship of The Biotechnology Initiative and Merck Frosst respectively. The TBI Lecture [...]

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Using Ultrasound to ‘See’ if Cancer Treatments Are Working Three Thornhill students have successfully used ultrasound to detect cancer cells, opening the door to a new, inexpensive cancer diagnosis tool. “We wanted to find an alternative way of detecting effectiveness of cancer treatments that would be non-invasive,” said 17-year old Ellie. Their hope was to [...]

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Ground-breaking research by three Grade 12 students from St. Elizabeth Catholic High School has earned the first place prize in the 2009 Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge (SABC) in the Greater Toronto region. “High Frequency Ultrasound Analysis of Apoptosis in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells in Vitro” Alessandro Caroti, Ellie Shuo Jin, and Hans Tee St. Elizabeth Catholic [...]

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Once again, Bioscience Education Canada is collaborating with the faculty of the School of Biological Sciences and Applied Chemistry, Seneca College to offer free biotechnology lectures and workshops for high school students in the Greater Toronto Area. The lectures and workshops are made available by the generous sponsorship of The Biotechnology Initiative and Merck Frosst [...]

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The SABC 2008 Toronto Competition was held at Seneca@York on April 29 & 30. The results were announced at the Awards Ceremony at MaRS on the evening of May 1st. Winners of the Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge 2008 (Greater Toronto Region) First Prize ($2500 cash + $2500 scholarship to one of our sponsoring academic institutions: Ryerson [...]

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First Prize ($2500 cash $2500 scholarship to Ryerson University, York University or the University of Toronto). Aaron Hakim, Appleby College, Oakville Gene Expression In Parkinson’s Disease: Genes mediating alpha-synuclein toxicity in a Drosophila model Best project from a school that is new to the competition ($500 cash) Aaron Hakim, Appleby College, Oakville Gene Expression In [...]

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