Royal Society U.K. / en Aled Edwards named a fellow of the U.K.’s Royal Society /celebrates/aled-edwards-named-fellow-uk-s-royal-society <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Aled Edwards named a fellow of the U.K.’s Royal Society</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>rahul.kalvapalle</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-07-31T11:12:18-04:00" title="Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 11:12" class="datetime">Wed, 07/31/2024 - 11:12</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-medical-biophysics" hreflang="en">Department of Medical Biophysics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-molecular-genetics" hreflang="en">Department of Molecular Genetics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/donnelly-centre-cellular-and-biomedical-research" hreflang="en">Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/royal-society-uk-0" hreflang="en">Royal Society U.K.</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2024-07/UofT90120_2022-10-28--Aled-and-Elizabeth-Edwards-%2810%29-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Aled Edwards (photo by Johnny Guatto)</em></p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://discover.research.utoronto.ca/15563-aled-edwards"><strong>Aled Edwards</strong></a>, a professor in the departments of medical biophysics and molecular genetics and the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, has been elected to the <a href="https://royalsociety.org/news/2024/05/new-fellows-2024/">Fellowship of the Royal Society</a>, the U.K.’s national academy of sciences.</p> <p>The world’s oldest independent scientific academy in continuous existence, the Royal Society recognizes individuals who have significantly impacted science through its fellowship program. Fellows are elected based on their substantial contributions to fields including mathematics, engineering science and medical science.</p> <p>Edwards, who holds a Temerty Nexus Chair of Health Innovation and Technology and is the founder and CEO of the <a href="https://www.thesgc.org/">Structural Genomics Consortium</a>, was honoured for his contributions to accelerating drug discovery following an open science ethos.</p> <p>As a fellow of the Royal Society, Edwards will continue to advocate for open science and collaborative research.</p> <h3><a href="https://royalsociety.org/people/aled-edwards-36787/">Read the Royal Society profile of Aled Edwards</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:12:18 +0000 rahul.kalvapalle 308791 at Geoffrey Hinton recognized with Royal Medal /news-celebrates/geoffrey-hinton-recognized-royal-medal <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Geoffrey Hinton recognized with Royal Medal</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2022-08-24T12:09:12-04:00" title="Wednesday, August 24, 2022 - 12:09" class="datetime">Wed, 08/24/2022 - 12:09</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/royal-medal" hreflang="en">Royal Medal</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/royal-society-uk-0" hreflang="en">Royal Society U.K.</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-computer-science" hreflang="en">Department of Computer Science</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/UofT14365_20170706_GeoffreyHinton_002-crop_1.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Geoffrey Hinton"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(photo by Johnny Guatto)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p class="elementtoproof"><span style="background:white">Artificial intelligence and deep-learning pioneer <strong>Geoffrey Hinton</strong> has been <a href="https://royalsociety.org/people/geoffrey-hinton-11624/">awarded the prestigious Royal Medal</a> from the Royal Society, the U.K.’s national academy of sciences. </span></p> <p class="elementtoproof"><span style="background:white">A <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/">University Professor Emeritus</a> in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science’s <a href="https://web.cs.toronto.edu/">department of computer science</a>, Hinton is chief scientific adviser at the <a href="https://vectorinstitute.ai/">Vector Institute</a>, and a vice-president and engineering fellow at Google. </span></p> <p class="elementtoproof"><span style="background:white"><a href="https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/royal-medal/">Royal Medals</a> have been awarded annually since 1826 for advancements in the physical and biological sciences. A third medal, for applied sciences, has been awarded since 1965. Previous 91Թ medal winners include <strong>Anthony Pawson</strong> and Nobel laureate <strong>John Polanyi</strong>.</span></p> <p class="elementtoproof"><span style="background:white">According to the Royal Society, Hinton is being honoured for “pioneering work on algorithms that learn distributed representations in artificial neural networks and their application to speech and vision, leading to a transformation of the international information technology industry.”</span></p> <p class="elementtoproof"><span style="background:white">In 1986, Hinton and his collaborators developed a breakthrough approach that would realize the promise of neural networks and form the current foundation of that technology. They built on that initial work with a number of critical developments that enhanced the potential of AI and helped usher in today’s revolution in deep learning with applications in speech and image recognition, self-driving vehicles, automated diagnosis of images and language, and more.</span></p> <p class="elementtoproof">“It is a great honour to receive the Royal Medal — a medal previously awarded to intellectual giants like Darwin, Faraday, Boole and G.I. Taylor,” says Hinton. “But unlike them, my success was the result of recruiting and nurturing an extraordinarily talented set of graduate students and postdocs who were responsible for many of the breakthroughs in deep learning that revolutionized artificial intelligence over the last 15 years.”</p> <h3 class="elementtoproof"><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/ai-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton-receives-prestigious-royal-medal-royal-society">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">A&amp;S</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:09:12 +0000 lanthierj 176086 at 91Թ professors elected to the U.K.'s Royal Society /celebrates/university-toronto-professors-elected-uk-s-royal-society <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">91Թ professors elected to the U.K.'s Royal Society</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-05-07T16:15:02-04:00" title="Friday, May 7, 2021 - 16:15" class="datetime">Fri, 05/07/2021 - 16:15</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-biochemistry" hreflang="en">Department of Biochemistry</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-mathematics" hreflang="en">Department of Mathematics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/royal-society-uk-0" hreflang="en">Royal Society U.K.</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2023-04/royal-society-2021.jpeg" width="750" height="500" alt="Julie Forman-Kay and Jeremy Quastel"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>(Photo of Forman-Kay courtesy of Forman-Kay; Quastel by Diana Tyszko)</p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Two 91Թ professors have been elected Fellows of <a href="https://royalsociety.org/">the Royal Society</a> – the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences.</p> <p>Professor <strong>Julie Forman-Kay</strong> of the department of biochemistry in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and Professor <strong>Jeremy Quastel</strong> of the department of mathematics in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science are among the 60 scientists named this year as Fellows, Foreign Members or Honorary Fellows. &nbsp;</p> <p>“The global pandemic has demonstrated the continuing importance of scientific thinking and collaboration across borders,” Sir Adam Smith, president of the society, said in a statement. “Each Fellow and Foreign Member bring their area of scientific expertise to the Royal Society and when combined, this expertise supports the use of science for the benefit of humanity.”</p> <p>Forman-Kay and Quastel are deeply collaborative leaders who have made profound&nbsp;impact with their research, said Professor <strong>Leah Cowen</strong>, associate vice-president, research.</p> <p>“Julie Forman-Kay’s recent studies elucidating the roles of disordered regions in controlling cellular organization and chemical reactions have led to important insights into normal biological regulation and how mutations in these regions lead to&nbsp;cancer and neurological disorders,” Cowen said. “And Jeremy Quastel is making world-leading contributions to probability theory, stochastic processes and partial differential equations.</p> <p>“The university congratulates them on this important recognition of their accomplishments.”</p> <h3><a href="/celebrates/julie-forman-kay-elected-fellow-royal-society">Read more about Forman-Kay&nbsp;</a></h3> <h3><a href="/celebrates/jeremy-quastel-elected-fellow-royal-society">Read more about Quastel&nbsp;</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 07 May 2021 20:15:02 +0000 lanthierj 301449 at Jeremy Quastel elected a Fellow of the Royal Society /celebrates/jeremy-quastel-elected-fellow-royal-society <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Jeremy Quastel elected a Fellow of the Royal Society</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-05-07T14:54:46-04:00" title="Friday, May 7, 2021 - 14:54" class="datetime">Fri, 05/07/2021 - 14:54</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-mathematics" hreflang="en">Department of Mathematics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/royal-society-uk-0" hreflang="en">Royal Society U.K.</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2023-05/Jeremy%20Quastel-crop.jpeg" width="750" height="500" alt="Jeremy Quastel"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>(Photo by Diana Tyszko)</p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>For his seminal contributions to both probability theory and mathematical physics, the 91Թ's<strong> Jeremy Quastel</strong> has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.</p> <p>“It is wonderful to have this kind of international recognition,” says <a href="http://www.math.toronto.edu/quastel/">Quastel</a>, a professor and chair of the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science’s <a href="http://www.math.toronto.edu/quastel/">department of mathematics</a>. “This is a very active field in probability and statistical physics where 91Թ is leading the world.”</p> <p>The distinction recognizes Quastel’s research into the extent to which macroscopic and phenomenological laws of physics can be derived rigorously from fundamental microscopic laws. In particular, Quastel discovered –&nbsp;with former 91Թ postdoctoral fellows <strong>Daniel Remenik</strong> and <strong>Konstantin Matetski</strong> –&nbsp;the strong coupling fixed point of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class describing the large-scale fluctuations of many interface growth models.</p> <p>“We are extremely proud that Professor Quastel has received this richly deserved honour,” says <strong>Melanie Woodin</strong>, dean of the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science. “His work is a wonderful example of the depth of research being conducted in the Faculty.”</p> <p>Quastel was also a Sloan Fellow and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He received his PhD from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, NYU, after which he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, then a faculty member at University of California,&nbsp;Davis. He joined 91Թ in 1998.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 07 May 2021 18:54:46 +0000 lanthierj 301451 at Julie Forman-Kay elected a Fellow of the Royal Society /celebrates/julie-forman-kay-elected-fellow-royal-society <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Julie Forman-Kay elected a Fellow of the Royal Society</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-05-07T10:59:13-04:00" title="Friday, May 7, 2021 - 10:59" class="datetime">Fri, 05/07/2021 - 10:59</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-biochemistry" hreflang="en">Department of Biochemistry</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/royal-society-uk-0" hreflang="en">Royal Society U.K.</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2023-04/Julie-Forman-Kay-crop.jpeg" width="750" height="500" alt="Julie Forman-Kay"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Julie Forman-Kay</strong> has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of her internationally renowned&nbsp;studies of the dynamic structures, interactions and functions of intrinsically disordered proteins.</p> <p>A professor in the department of biochemistry in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Forman-Kay is also&nbsp;senior scientist and program head of molecular medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.&nbsp;</p> <p>"I am truly honoured to have been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, with its history of bringing outstanding scientists together to promote excellent science for the sake of improving society,” says Forman-Kay. “I am also extremely pleased, as it is recognition not only of my work but of the importance of disordered regions in biological function."&nbsp;</p> <p>Intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions make up about a third of human protein sequences, yet are poorly understood.&nbsp;Forman-Kay's research has&nbsp;provided strong links between dynamic interactions of disordered proteins and regulation of essential cellular processes.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>“Forman-Kay’s work sits at the interface of structural biology and cell biology, which is not a set of skills that most people think about in the same sentence. But she moves effortlessly between the two,” says Professor <strong>Justin Nodwell</strong>, vice-dean, research and graduate education and former chair of biochemistry. “As a result, she’s made foundational discoveries that apply to many proteins with enormous relevance to human disease.</p> <p>“I’m so happy to hear that Julie has been inducted into the Royal Society. She brings her sharp, critical mind and boundless interest to everything she does – I really can’t think of anyone who is more deserving of this terrific honour.”</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 07 May 2021 14:59:13 +0000 lanthierj 301450 at U.K. Royal Society names Zulfiqar Bhutta a Fellow /celebrates/uk-royal-society-names-zulfiqar-bhutta-fellow <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">U.K. Royal Society names Zulfiqar Bhutta a Fellow</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2020-05-26T11:52:58-04:00" title="Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 11:52" class="datetime">Tue, 05/26/2020 - 11:52</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/royal-society-uk-0" hreflang="en">Royal Society U.K.</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/dalla-lana-school-public-health" hreflang="en">Dalla Lana School of Public Health</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/zulfi_bhutta__.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Zulfiqar Bhutta"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>For his contributions to global child health, Professor <strong>Zulfiqar Bhutta</strong> has been elected a fellow of <a href="https://royalsociety.org/">the United Kingdom’s Royal Society</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>The Royal Society is the U.K.’s national academy of sciences and the oldest scientific academy that has been in continuous existence. Members have included Sir Isaac Newton, Steven Hawking and Albert Einstein.</p> <p>“This year’s fellows have helped shape the 21st century through their work at the cutting-edge of fields from human genomics, to climate science and machine learning,” said society president Venki Ramakrishnan.&nbsp;</p> <p>Bhutta, whose primary appointment is with the department of paediatrics, is also&nbsp; appointed to the department of nutritional sciences in the Faculty of Medicine and the&nbsp; epidemiology division in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. He is co-director of the Centre for Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children and a scientist in the Joannah &amp; Brian Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition at 91Թ. His latest research focuses on <a href="https://childnutrition.utoronto.ca/defining-global-food-environments-children">the impacts of food environments on the nutrition of children and adolescents</a> in low- and middle-income countries.&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 26 May 2020 15:52:58 +0000 lanthierj 164688 at