STARS21 at UT

Online now in #RedJournal! Check out our latest manuscript describing the 15-year impact of our innovative training program aimed at building capacity in radiation medicine research. Learn more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ijro…

🚨 Now open: Applications for the 2025–26 #STARS21 Program! Build your future in translational & transdisciplinary radiation medicine research. 📅 LOI deadline: June 27 🔗 Learn more & apply: radonc.utoronto.ca/stars21 @UofT @PMCancerCentre @UofTDRO #RadOnc #CancerResearch

Looks like @swinton_martin had a blast at @STARS21atUT & won the #posterprize @RT_physics @MCRCnews @UoM_DCS @TheChristieSoO @RCRadiologists @UKECRC ⭐️🏆🎊

Just kicked off the first session of our @STARS21atUT Scholar-Led Presentation Series - innovative research projects and discussions everyone! Check out our Scholar Spotlight to see what our scholars are up to. More to come in the New Year @RadMedPM @pmcancercentre

We're proud to partner w/McGill University Health Centre @cusm_much, @BCCancer, Manchester Cancer Research Centre @MCRCnews & Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute @BHCRI to welcome our 2022-23 external @STARS21atUT scholars. Thanks for joining our sessions across time zones!

We are back with another exciting academic year ahead - join us in welcoming our 2022-2023 @STARS21atUT Scholars! Stay tuned for our Scholar Spotlights to see what our scholars are up to this year...

The 19th annual #STARS21atUT (virtual) Research Day marked another successful year of STARS21! Special thank you to Drs. @kkbGoBlue, @IBCradiation, @jwoodgett, @CmcintoshAi, @edwardktaylor, @Kathy_C_Han, David Shultz and Philip Wong! Congratulations to our STARS21 scholars!

Join us on June 16th for @kkbGoBlue's virtual keynote address on "Harnessing Biomechanics and Artificial Intelligence to Improve Image Guided Radiation Therapy" utoronto.zoom.us/j/84064677542

Today is #WorldCancerDay! This year's theme is #CloseTheCareGap. As one of the world’s leading cancer centres, PM is committed to understanding inequities in cancer care at home & abroad, & to finding solutions that address inequity & access to the benefit of patients worldwide.

Our review is out! We discuss the role of BRCA1 and defective DNA repair in metastasis. @KrishnanRehna Link: shorturl.at/gDY13 @PMResearch_UHN @MBPGSA @STARS21atUT

Congratulations to @pmcancercentre's Dr. Daniel De Carvalho (@decarvalho_lab) & #RMPatPM's very own Dr. @ScottBratman on receiving @UHN’s 18th annual Inventor of the Year Award together for their work in cfMeDIPseq! Read more here: uhn.ca/corporate/News…

Thank you to our trainees' for sharing their research with the #STARS21atUT community. It's very exciting work and we're looking forward to hearing their progress during the year! #brainstormingsessions!

#STARS21atUT is kicking off the new year discussing our new trainees' research projects! #radiationscience #cancerresearch #brainstormingsessions

Congratulations to #STARS21atUT alumnus Dr. @indusvMD!

Congratulations @gelarehzadeh lab & @TheBoutrosLab and shout-out to former #STARS21atUT trainee @justinzw for this amazing publication in @Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congratulations to the @UHN researchers awarded infrastructure funding from @InnovationCA and @ISED_CA to advance revolutionary therapeutic strategies for hard-to-treat cancers and neurological conditions > uhnresearch.ca/news/research-… #cancer #research @InnovationCA @gelarehzadeh

#SABR is a well-recognized option for medically inoperable early-stage #NSCLC. Can we turn up the 📻 for #SCLC? #lcsm #radonc #SBRT Now in @LungCaJournal! authors.elsevier.com/a/1dTspcYZOTbkq A 🧵from team 🇨🇦 (@DrAlexLouie @hanbo_chen @davidymak) at @Sunnybrook @UofTDRO @LHSCCanada (1/5)

Congrats to the @Sunnybrook #mrlinac team as we have shown functional metabolic imaging (CEST) can be done on the Unity MR Linac @Elekta, we are a step closer to personalized CTV and metabolic adaptive RT for #GBM, real advance in the technology

S/o to my supervisor @MKoritzinsky for sharing her amazing wisdom on this not-so-easy but exciting road to becoming a scientist 👩🏼‍🔬

STARS21 is now accepting applications for the 2021/2022 academic year! Letters of Intent due July 30! radonc.utoronto.ca/prospective-sc…

Congratulations to #RMPatPM @UofTDRO resident Dr. Jennifer Kwan on her successful PhD defense! Dr. Kwan completed her PhD in Dr. Fei-Fei Liu's lab & has transitioned back to clinical training. Special thanks to residency director @DrBezjakRO for her wonderful support!