Cristina Nostro
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Senior Scientist @McEwenInstitute @UHN Associate Professor @physiologyuoft #stemcellbiology #diabetes #regenerativemedicine #womeninSTEM
Toronto, Ontario
Joined September 2012
š New opportunity - Fourteen summer studentships are available for undergraduate and med students to carry out summer research in diabetes under the supervision of a member of the BBDC. Learn more! https://t.co/I36vp89mvu
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So honored to receive the 2025 Till & McCulloch Award @ #TMM2025 @StemCellNetwork Huge thanks to @AdrianaMiglior1 and all the present and past members of my lab! @UHN_Research @McEwenInstitute @physiologyuoft
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Friday September 26 @uoftmedicine @SinaiHealth The 2025 Gerard N Burrow Lecture. Professor Alvin Powers #islets #diabetes #T1D #T2D @VanderbiltU @VUMChealth 8 am Mt. Sinai Join us! @AlPowers7
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Join us for the 2025 Rachmiel Levine-Arthur Riggs Diabetes Research Symposium. We have an amazing program this year focusing on type 1 #diabetes. We have also extended the abstract submission deadline to Sept 19. Register and submit your abstract a https://t.co/Dutd3Jhauw
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š£ Early career researchers! Apply now to participate in the Reviewer in Training program as a Mentee or an ECR Reviewer. Deadline is August 6 Learn more: https://t.co/828jC7S6Wt
#EarlyCareerResearchers #PeerReview
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Coming soon! The Reviewer in Training program offers early career researchers the opportunity to learn about the peer review process at CIHR while gaining valuable experience participating in high-quality reviews. Accepting applications July 9 to Aug. 6: https://t.co/XmZL6VKVnq
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Join us for a fun 5K walk on May 31st to support UHN and meet all the amazing scientists working at Team McEwen @McEwenInstitute @UHN_Research
wewalkuhnited.ca
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A huge congratulations to @DanielJDrucker for winning the breakthrough prize for his work that has led to one of the most exciting medicines ever created. An important achievement for an impressive Canadian Scientist
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The next BBDC Trainee Lab Seminar Series is on April 11Ā at 12pmĀ at theĀ Toronto General Hospital. Majid Mufaqam Syed AbdulĀ from Dr. Gary Lewis' lab,Ā Haiyang Huang from @MCNostroLab and Nitya Gulati from @JonRocheleau lab will present theirĀ latest research. https://t.co/tdvRPYjjnd
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News of the first NIH grant cuts at Columbia medical center have come in. Center grants (including of the diabetes center where I am), training grants for PhD students. PhD students are certainly not the reason for federal budget woes, they are among the most altruistically
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Fantastic turn out for the š½ #StandUpForScience2025 peaceful protest. Sad to know that many chose not to attend for fear of deportation. Don't be silent!
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Sana Biotechnology's first-in-human study of hypoimmune-engineered deceased donor islets shows insulin production & immune evasion without immunosuppression #Diabetes #T1D #CellTherapy
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First-in-Human Study Provides Evidence that Sanaās Hypoimmune (HIP) Technology Enables Transplanted Islet Cells to Avoid Immune Rejection and Produce Insulin Without Immunosuppression Results...
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So excited to share the first paper from the lab! We identified CD34 as a marker of the heartās SAN pacemaker cells enabling their isolation from stem cell differentiation cultures, advancing future disease modeling and biological pacemaker applications. https://t.co/yaThtPS3WC
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Nature Communications - Lim et al. identify CD34 as a surface marker of the heartās sinoatrial node pacemaker cells, enabling their isolation from stem cell differentiation cultures,...
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Thrilled to share one of our biggest discoveries: āInceptor binds to and directs insulin towards lysosomal degradation in beta cellsā. https://t.co/GKx6eslJz0 A tremendous collaborative effort led by @JohannaSiehler, @BilekovaSara and other members of the @LickertHeiko lab.
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Nature Metabolism - The insulin inhibitory receptor (inceptor) is found to bind to insulin and to regulate insulin stores by directing proinsulin and insulin towards lysosomal degradation.
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Thanks to Alex Cho from the @MCNostroLab for sharing why diabetes research matters to him for #WorldDiabetesDay. Tell us why diabetes research matters to *you* in the comments!
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Congratulations to @Homaira_H well-deserved best trainee oral presentation in a plenary session, the Connie Eaves award #TMM2024 @EpelmanLab @TGHRI_UHN
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Congratulations Michelle šš»šš»šš» well-deserved!
Congrats to @michellecells for winning the oral presentation award at #TMM2024 @McEwenInstitute @StemCellNetwork - so well deserved! #proudpi
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