EXTERNAL/MEDIA

​2023

Providence Therapeutics officially signs a deal with UHN to develop mRNA vaccines and therapies for cancer and infectious disease applications. Congratulations to Dr. Ohashi on facilitating this opportunity!
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Congratulations Dr. Ohashi on being elected as the SITC Secretary/Treasurer!
Congratulations to Dr. Ohashi on being recognized as a Distinguished Fellow at AAI.

2022

Dr. Ohashi ranked among the Best Female Scientists in the world in 2022.

2021

Dr. Ohashi received the York University Tentanda Via Bryden Alumni Award. This award is given to a graduate who has demonstrated innovate, unconventional daring leadership and success. Congratulations Dr. Ohashi!

2020

Congratulations to Dr. Ohashi for 2020 SITC Team Science Award. Drs. Tak Mak (pictured above, left) and Pamela Ohashi (right), and their teams and collaborators, have been honoured with the 2020 SITC Team Science Award from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC). To see a video of the virtual award ceremony, click here.

The international award recognizes research teams that have made significant contributions to advancing the field of cancer immunotherapy. Among the leaders in the field is the team behind Princess Margaret Cancer Centre’s Tumor Immunotherapy Program. At its inception, the program was the first of its kind in Canada, with experts in immunology, oncology, genomics, bioinformatics, pathology and surgery. Co-led by Drs. Ohashi and Lillian Siu, it has initiated clinical trials in therapies involving tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes and TCR transduced T cells, and set up a state-of-the-art cell therapy team and a comprehensive immune profiling team.

2019

​Congratulations to Dr. Ohashi and the CCIC organizers for a successful annual conference in Toronto!

Ohashi lab welcomes 2018 Nobel Laureate Dr. T. Honjo!
Dr. Ohashi elected to AACR nominating committee from March 2020 - April 2022
Check out the latest story from CHCH featuring Drs. Tak Mak, and Pamela Ohashi.

2018

Dr. Pamela Ohashi announced as the recipient of the Canadian Cancer Society Robert L Noble Prize for her contribution in advancing cancer immunology research! Find out more about news!

2017

Dr. Ohashi featured by York university's alumni spotlight! Find out more about her academic journey!
Dr. Ohashi featured by the University Health Network, discussing the recent discovery of "regulatory ILC" published in Nature Medicine 2017 (Crome et al.)
Dr. Nguyen, head of Tumor Immunotherapy Program's Cell Production Team, featured in Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation's "meet the cancer experts" series.

2016

Dr. Ohashi featured in AACR Special Conference on Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy, American Association for Cancer Research
Dr. Ohashi and the lab featured in "Canadian researcher says immunotherapy is a cancer-fighting miracle", CBC Radio 
Dr. Ohashi interviewed and featured in the Global News exploring the impact of immunotherapy in cancer medicine 
Dr. Ohashi featured in an article exploring developments in breast cancer treatment. Reader's Digest International
Dr. Clouthier, head of the INSPIRE group, presents INSPIRE clinical work in TIP symposium, feeatured by Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Dr. Ohashi and the lab featured in "Adding muscle to the immune system to fight ovarian cancer", by H. Blumenthal, BioCanRx
Dr. Ohashi featured in Terry Fox Research Institute as the 2016 Translational Cancer Research Program Competition Recipient! - "New Pan-Canadian immunotherapy project aims for greater "hope and options" for women with ovarian cancer"
Dr. Ohashi featured in The Globe and Mail, phone interview, “New approaches to cancer therapy are finding their target”

2015

Dr. Ohashi and the lab featured in "Scientists unleash the power of immunotherapy on stubborn cancers." The Globe and Mail
Dr. Ohashi interviewed from CTV with Pauline Chan,  (aired June 17, 2015)
Dr. Ohashi interviewed by The Globe and Mail regarding Terry Fox 35th anniversary

2013

Dr. Ohashi featured in TheScientist magazine - "Tumor-Targeting T Cells Engineered"

2009

Dr. Ohashi interviewed by Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation, exploring the promising future of cancer immunotherapy
The lab's discovery of IL-7's role in boosting immune response against cancer gains national attention. The Globe and Mail
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INTERNAL

​2023

We welcome to the Ohashi lab our new post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Ning An.

​Welcome to Master's student Kieran Coppens who will be supervised by Dr. Sam Saibil.

​Congratulations to Adriana on defending her Master's thesis! She will be continuing on as a PhD student with supervisor Dr. Adrian Sacher.

Congratulations Douglas on  a highly successful start year with many awards and achievements:
  • Temerity Faculty of Medicine Research Symposium Runner-Up Oral Presentation Award
  • 1st place oral presentation awards at the Cytokines in Cancer conference
  • 1st place oral presentation award at the ImmunoOncology conference at Western University
  • Government of Ontario's Minister's Award of Excellence: Rising Star

​2022

Congratulations to Nicolas on his new position as an Assistant Professor at Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary!

​Welcome to the Ohashi lab Dr. Abdalla Sheikh and congratulations on winning the Princess Margaret Postdoctoral Fellowship!

2021

Thank you Dasha for an amazing 2 years in the Ohashi lab - we wish you the best of luck at U of T masters' program!

Congratulations to James for being elected in American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Associate Member Council (AMC)! Click here to find out more!
Congratulations to James for successfully defending his PhD on "Cbl-b deficient T cells resist Treg cell-mediated suppression and enhance anti-tumor immunity," and accepting a joint-postdoc offer at Drs. Arlene Sharpe & Marcia Hagis labs at Harvard University.
We welcome new members of our lab - Dr. Nicolas Jacquelot (post-doctoral fellow)

Congratulations Meghan on winning the prestigious CIHR master's award.

Welcome to Master's student Adriana Vukosich who will be supervised by Dr. Adrian Sacher.

Welcome to Ohashi lab Ksenia, and congratulations on graduating U of T with high distinction! 

2020

Congratulations Douglas on winning the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Partners in Research Marvelle Koffler Prize, and U of T Immunology Department Retreat Poster award (3rd place).

Douglas and James wins AAI trainee poster award!

Dr. Andrew Giacomelli secures CIHR Post-Doc Fellowship (3-year) - congratulations on the outstanding acheivement!

Congratulations Michael St. Paul on your Department of Immunology Cinader Award!
Douglas gets featured in TVO for his youth science outreach work! Find out more about how to extract DNA at home!
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​We welcome new PhD student in our lab - Meghan Kates! Meghan will be co-supervised with Dr. Pamela Ohashi and Dr. Sam Saibil.

​Congratulations Heather on a new job at Triumvira Immunologics Inc.!

Congratulations Stephanie on successful PhD recalls examination & Queen II Graduate Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Michael St. Paul for successfully defending his PhD on "Evaluating the metabolic and anti-tumor properties of CD8+ T cell lineages."
Carlos, Douglas and James attends the first Immuno-Oncology symposium hosted by Centre for Translational Cancer Research. Congratulations James for successful oral talk!

2019

Ohashi lab celebrates end of year in the annual Department of Immunology retreat. Congratulations to Douglas for winning Imm Department Science Outreach award! 
​We welcome new member of our lab - Dr. Maryam Ghaedi!​
Congratulations to all Ohashi lab members who attended CCIC meeting and presented the work. Special congratulations to Heather for winning an oral talk award!
Congratulations to Dr. Heather MacGregor for successfully defending her PhD on "Significance of Expression of Immunomodulatory B7 Family Members B7-H3 and B7-H4 in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer." 
Congratulations to Douglas, Kitty, Dr. Matthew Gold and James for acquiring travel award to attend BioCanRx conference in Victoria. Congratulations to all for successful presentations!
​Congratulations to our new post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Andrew Giacomelli, for being awarded with PM fellowship!
Congratulations to Kitty for winning the BioCanRx summer studentship award (featured in BioCanRx website), and being invited to Summit4CI Conference in Victora, BC! 
Congratulations to James for representing Canada and University of Toronto at Tsinghuwa University Institute of Immunology, for an international trainee forum. 
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Gold for receiving a one-year CIHR fellowship award!

Congratulations to Khalid for winning the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship!

We welcome new member of our lab - Dr. Andrew Giacomelli!

2018

​Congratulations to Scott Lien for successful PhD transfer exam!

​Douglas, a graduate student of the lab wins 3rd place in immunology department research competition

We welcome new member of our lab - Dr. Adrian Sacher, Dr. Khalid Dhuban and Stephanie!

Dr. Sarah Crome gets a faculty position! Congratulations!
​Congratulations to James H for receiving top research presentation award at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology conference in Immunoreceptor & Immunotherapy.
Douglas, a graduate student of the lab wins prestigious CIHR master's award

James Han, a PhD student of the lab successfully passes the qualification exam!

​Congratulations to Matt for winning the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship!

We welcome new member of our lab team - Azin!

2017

Ohashi lab attends the 10th annual meeting of Canadian Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium (CCIC)!

Congratulation to James H for winning the top research presentation award at CCIC!
Dr. Tran secures a job as an associate scientist at Amgen, San Francisco! Congratulations. We wish you the best of luck!
Ohashi lab welcomes a new lab member! Welcome Dr. Wang!
Nobel laureate Dr. Rolf Zinkernagel visits Princess Margaret Cancer Center and the lab for great scientific discussions! 
Dr. D. Clouthier gets a new job as a Medical Science Liaison at Ipsen!  

​Douglas Chung wins travel award to give oral presentation at the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) meeting in Chicago
The Ohashi lab celebrates its 25th anniversary! Congratulations lab & more exciting research to come ahead of us!
Scott Lien, a new PhD student of the lab wins prestigious CIHR master's award

​Douglas Chung accepted to U of T's immunology graduate program with entrance award

New post-doc (Kathrin and Simone) joins the lab! Welcome

Congratulation to Owen Crump for winning the 2017 BioCanRx Summer Studentship Award!
​Charles Tran successfully defends his PhD (University of Toronto, Department of Immunology). Congratulations Dr. Tran!

2016

​Douglas Chung (undergraduate student) wins 2nd place in the Infection and Immunity Research Forum oral presentation, competing against graduate students & post-docs. Congratulations Douglas for the achievement

Michael St. Paul, a graduate student, wins travel award to attend the Canadian Society of Immunology meeting in Ottawa 
​James Han wins the top award for his research presentation at the Summit for Cancer Immunotherapy meeting hosted by CCIC & BioCanRX in Halifax
​Dr. Matt Gold (a new post-doc) wins the prestigious Banting post-doctoral fellowship. Congratulations Matt for the achievement!

Dr. Charles Tran, Dr. Matt Gold and James Han wins travel award to attend the Summit for Cancer Immunotherapy meeting hosted by CCIC & BioCanRX in Halifax

James Han wins 1st place in research presentation at the Department of Immunology meeting.

2015

James Han wins the prestigious CIHR graduate student award.

2014

Michael St. Paul, a graduate student, wins prestigious NSERC Canada-Graduate Scholarship for doctoral studies. Congratulations!

James Han and Dr. Aras Toker joins the Ohashi lab!

2013

Ohashi lab wins the immunology winter retreat centerpiece competition!
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