Benjamin Haibe-Kains

Former Liberal cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan dies at 59 OTTAWA — Former Liberal cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan has died at the age of 59 following a years-long battle with cancer. Born on Oct.

Gutted to learn of the passing of Dr Kirsty Duncan.

She was a tireless fighter for the people she served, not only her local community in Toronto but others, especially the science & research &
athletics communities too.

She championed equity, diversity, inclusion and made change happen.

🤍🙏🏻

Congratulations to our Senior Scientist Dr. Pamela Ohashi on being named one of the Fellows of the AACR Academy Class of 2026 🎉.

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@theaacr.bsky.social @uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca

LIGAND-AI led by @thesgc.bsky.social at @uhnresearch.ca and funded by the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) with EU-Canada support, is officially launched!

My team will contribute AI expertise and will develop the AIRCHECK platform (aircheck.ai) for drug discovery.

www.thesgc.org/news/ihi-pro...

LIGAND-AI led by @thesgc.bsky.social at @uhnresearch.ca and funded by the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) with EU-Canada support, is officially launched!

My team will contribute AI expertise and will develop the AIRCHECK platform (aircheck.ai) for drug discovery.

www.thesgc.org/news/ihi-pro...

Canadian-led Alliance Harnesses AI and Open Science to Advance Drug Discovery UHN, the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), and SickKids are joining forces to lead a major initiative to change how medicines are discovered using AI.

NEWS RELEASE: UHN, the Structural Genomics Consortium and The Hospital for Sick Children are harnessing AI and open science to advance drug discovery, securing a $26M grant. Learn more:
bit.ly/3LOojBQ

@uhnresearch.ca

The Story behind the Science: Preprints of pandemic potential—how bioRxiv and medRxiv brought preprints to the life sciences | mBio When we launched medRxiv in mid-2019, we never could have anticipated that just a few months later, New York would be at the epicenter of a rapidly escalating global pandemic, and we would be handling...

A brief history of the BioRxiv and MedRxiv preprint services, their meteoric growth and supportive role during the pandemic. Submitting preprints should be the primary step for scientific dissemination. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

I strongly suggest this read on the topic and LLM antropomorphism:

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

Our new @nature.com Rev Clin Oncol Review maps how computational oncology is pushing predictive biomarker discovery forward: multimodal ML, transformers and foundation models, and frameworks that aim to match each patient to the therapies most likely to work.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Our new @nature.com Rev Clin Oncol Review maps how computational oncology is pushing predictive biomarker discovery forward: multimodal ML, transformers and foundation models, and frameworks that aim to match each patient to the therapies most likely to work.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Congratulations to TeamUHN's Dr. Shaf Keshavjee and Dr. Allison McGeer on their prestigious Order of Canada appointments, recognizing their trailblazing work in patient care, medical advancements and scientific discovery.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4aGx9fa

The AI Hub is excited to kick off 2026 AI Rounds with a talk from @bhaibeka.bsky.social exploring PMATCH: an AI-driven platform connecting patients to the right clinical trials.
📅 Jan 21 | 🕔 5-6 PM ET | 📍Virtual
🔗 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/2516e1...

Clonal evolution and transcriptional plasticity shape metastatic dissemination routes in prostate cancer - Nature Communications The impact of tumour heterogeneity on metastatic potential in prostate cancer remains poorly understood. Here, the analysis of single nuclei RNA sequencing and whole-genome sequencing from samples fro...

Back-to-back: Integrating single-nuclei RNA-seq and whole-genome sequencing, @joachimwei.bsky.social and his team show how prostate cancer metastasis is shaped by plasticity-driven convergence alongside ongoing clonal evolution, with distinct clones adopting shared transcriptional trajectories.

(Allison McGeer Image Source: Canadian Medical Hall of Fame).

(1/3) 🎉 Congratulations to @uhn.ca researchers Drs. Shaf Keshavjee and Allison McGeer on their appointments to the Order of Canada! Their work has advanced research in #transplantation and #InfectiousDisease worldwide.

🔗 Read the full press release: gg.ca/en/media/new...

Congratulations to Dr. Shaf Keshavjee, Chief of Innovation at UHN, for his promotion from Officer to Companion of the Order of Canada.

See the full list of 2025 appointees:
https://bit.ly/3YjFXAb

Proud to partner with Cedars Sinai for the AI in Medicine Symposium in LA. More than 200 experts from 70+ institutions gathered to discuss applied AI in clinical care, including implementation, safety, ethics and training future clinicians.

Read more:
https://bit.ly/4q4db2Z

Clinical trial participants donate data and biospecimens. We call for faster and broader sharing of clinical data and samples to accelerate patient-centered oncology research. Proud to contribute to this global effort published in
@jamaoncology.com

doi.org/10.1001/jama...

Developing guidance in #AI is challenging as technology evolves rapidly. ESMO task forces have developed long-lasting recommendations to support the responsible use of AI in #oncology. Read more in the #ESMODailyReporter 📌 https://ow.ly/XonL50XLkVg

#HealthAI #DigitalOncology

See 👇 our new manuscript introducing SpaCEy, an explainable method for predicting clinical outcomes from spatial omics data 🧬

📄 Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
💻 Code repo: github.com/saezlab/SpaCEy

Standing up for science UofTMed Magazine

Good articles in the UofT school of medicine magazine incl. @danieljdrucker.bsky.social on research integrity and @gairdnerawards.bsky.social President Janet Rossant on standing up for science, @bhaibeka.bsky.social on open sourcing AI and Marla Shapiro. uoftmedmagazine.utoronto.ca/2026-winter/...

Grateful to present at the AI in Medicine Symposium at @cedarssinaicancer.bsky.social

My talk will focus on evaluation frameworks for oncology AI: Robust validation, generalizability, and scientific integrity as prerequisites for clinical impact.

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Grateful to present at the AI in Medicine Symposium at @cedarssinaicancer.bsky.social

My talk will focus on evaluation frameworks for oncology AI: Robust validation, generalizability, and scientific integrity as prerequisites for clinical impact.

cedars.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...

Screenshot from an article of the Financial Post. The headline reads: Canada launches billion dollar plan to recruit top researchers.

Canada’s new government is investing big to attract world-class talent in science and technology — and become an innovation powerhouse.

Standing up for science UofTMed Magazine

Great to see so many T-CAIREM members featured in the latest #UofT Med Magazine, including our infrastructure theme lead @bhaibeka.bsky.social!

uoftmedmagazine.utoronto.ca/2026-winter/...

#MedTwitter #AImedicine #AI #HealthAI #AIinHealthcare #MedTech

Thrilled to be part of the @uoftmedicine.bsky.social Magazine spotlight on scientific integrity, especially in AI research, emphasizing the critical importance of reproducibility, data quality, and validation, not just performance metrics.

uoftmedmagazine.utoronto.ca/2026-winter/

Thrilled to be part of the @uoftmedicine.bsky.social Magazine spotlight on scientific integrity, especially in AI research, emphasizing the critical importance of reproducibility, data quality, and validation, not just performance metrics.

uoftmedmagazine.utoronto.ca/2026-winter/

Standing up for science UofTMed Magazine

🎉Can't wait to dive into the latest issue
of the @uoftmedicine.bsky.social #Magazine!

uoftmedmagazine.utoronto.ca/2026-winter/

#MedSky #AImedicine #AI #HealthAI #AIinHealthcare #MedTech

@terryfoxresearch.bsky.social @terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social

A graphic with a photo of Sasha Main and the title of her project, "Simultaneous cell-free whole genome and epigenome sequencing to advance precision medicine in breast cancer"

🌐🧬Personalizing metastatic breast cancer care with liquid biopsies🌐🧬

Sasha Main’s team will build data and tools to study circulating tumour DNA, aiming to replace risky and painful tissue biopsies with less invasive blood tests in metastatic breast cancer care.

Learn more: tinyurl.com/mtx6bz2