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2026
- talkJüri Reimand spoke on recurrent glioblastoma at the Donnelly Seminar Series, University of Toronto
- paperPaper in Nature Communications from the Pan Prostate Cancer Group: driver alterations in 961 prostate cancer genomes and four genomic oncotypes
- talkJüri Reimand spoke on recurrent glioblastoma at the Forbeck Forum in Smithville, TN
- paperPaper in Cell Reports with the Schramek lab: CRISPR screens and mouse models validate non-coding drivers of breast and skin cancer
- paperCollaborative paper in Nature on aneuploidy and driver genes in breast cancer
- paperPaper in Nature from the Pan Prostate Cancer Group: eight mutational fingerprints of prostate cancer, four linked to aggressive disease
- talkJüri Reimand gave an invited talk on prostate cancer genomics at the University of Tartu
- peopleCongratulations to Dr. Kevin Cheng on his PhD defence
- updateJüri Reimand promoted to Senior Principal Investigator at OICR
- preprintPreprint on CAMM, deep learning of regional mutagenesis in metastases, led by Hanli Jiang
- awardKevin Cheng received a 2026 AACR-CIHR Scholar-in-Training Award
2025
- awardJüri Reimand received a Visiting Professor Fellowship for Estonian Scholars Abroad
- paperPaper in Nature Communications on TOP2B binding, mutational processes and non-coding drivers
- paperCollaborative paper in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles on haematopoietic nano-niches
- talkJüri Reimand gave a platform talk at the ASHG annual meeting in Boston
- paperCollaborative paper in Nature Communications on prostate cancer germline testing in men of African ancestry
- updateThe Reimand lab marks ten years
- paperPaper in Molecular Cancer Research introducing PACIFIC, led by Masroor Bayati
- paperCollaborative paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering on medulloblastoma metastasis
- peopleCongratulations to Dr. Alec Bahcheli on his PhD defence
- paperCollaborative paper in Cancer Research on sensitising Group 3 medulloblastoma to radiation
- talkJüri Reimand gave an invited talk at the Festival of Genomics in Boston
- paperCollaborative paper in Nature Neuroscience on the myelin–axon interface in Alzheimer's disease
- awardAlec Bahcheli received an AACR Scholar-in-Training Award; Hanli Jiang a Computer Science Engagement Award
- talkHanli Jiang spoke at GLBIO 2025 in Minneapolis
- paperCollaborative paper in Nature Cell Biology on metastatic medulloblastoma
- paperCollaborative paper in Cancer Discovery on the germline and somatic origins of prostate cancer heterogeneity
- awardHanli Jiang received a stipend from the UofT Undergraduate Research Fund
- awardTwo CIHR grants awarded: a project grant on non-coding drivers and a catalyst grant on multi-omics tools
2024
- awardAlec Bahcheli received the Hannah Farkas-Himsley and Alexander Himsley Memorial Prize
- awardKevin Cheng and Masroor Bayati received Excellence UTF Scholarships
- paperPaper in Nature Communications on DPM, directional integration of multi-omics data
- awardAlec Bahcheli awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 2024–25
- talkJigyansa Mishra spoke at GLBIO 2024 in Pittsburgh
- paperPaper in The EMBO Journal on ion transport genes as regulators of glioblastoma aggression
2023
- talkJüri Reimand gave an invited talk at the Canadian Conference on Epigenetics in Banff
- talkDiogo Pellegrina spoke at ICSB 2023
- awardMasroor Bayati awarded the MBP Excellence Award and Caven Fellowship
- awardAlec Bahcheli awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- paperCollaborative study in Nature Communications on CRISPR screens for immunotherapy response in lung cancer
- talkMasroor Bayati and Kevin Cheng presented posters at GLBIO 2023
- paperPaper in Frontiers in Endocrinology on post-transplant NASH transcriptomes
- preprintPreprint on the ion permeome in glioblastoma
- preprintPreprint on smoking and APOBEC signatures generating stop-gain mutations in cancer
- talkMykhaylo Slobodyanyuk presented a poster at CSHL
- awardDiogo Pellegrina awarded a STAGE HostSeq postdoctoral fellowship
2022
- paperCollaborative study on MSI1 in medulloblastoma in Nature Communications
- talkLab at the TFRI Scientific Meeting; flash-talk award to Masroor Bayati
- talkJüri Reimand invited talk at the EMBO Modularity meeting
- paperPaper in PLOS Computational Biology on chromatin accessibility and regional mutational processes
- talkMykhaylo Slobodyanyuk spoke at ISMB 2022
- awardAlec Bahcheli awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- peopleKevin Cheng passed his PhD qualifying exam
- paperPPCG collaboration on germline pathway biomarkers of prostate cancer in European Urology
- peopleAlec Bahcheli passed his PhD qualifying exam
- paperPaper in Molecular Systems Biology on genetic variants rewiring SARS-CoV-2 signalling networks
- talkJüri Reimand seminar at Ryerson University
- talkMasroor Bayati spoke at OICR Mondays
2021
- peopleWelcome to new graduate students Zoe Klein, Masoom Mohammad and Mykhaylo Slobodyanyuk
- preprintPreprint on genetic rewiring of SARS-CoV-2 phospho-signalling networks
- peopleMasroor Bayati passed his PhD qualifying exam
- paperPaper in Cell Reports on the prognostic onco-lncRNA HOXA10-AS in gliomas
- peopleChristian Lee defended his MSc thesis
- paperCollaborative study on breast cancer drivers and pathways in Nature Communications
- awardGraduate awards to Alec Bahcheli (OGS), Masroor Bayati and Kevin Cheng (MBP Excellence)
- updateJüri Reimand promoted to Associate Professor (UofT) and Investigator II (OICR)
- updateNew lab website launched
- preprintPreprint on epigenetic predictors of regional mutagenesis in 2,500 cancer genomes
- paperPaper in Genome Biology on local mutational processes in regulatory elements of cancer genomes, with the RM2 method