On World Science Day for Peace and Development, UHN announces the launch of the 2024–2025 Research Report: Driving Discovery, Delivering Impact. This report showcases TeamUHN’s goal of turning discovery into impact through collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to improving lives.
This year’s research report celebrates the transformative role science plays in shaping a healthier future. Highlighting advancements in regenerative medicine and AI-generated tools, the report explores how innovation is driving progress toward novel therapies, smarter diagnostics, and more. The report also emphasizes new approaches to making health care more accessible and inclusive. Central to these advances is the power of collaboration—demonstrating how partnerships across disciplines and institutions are fueling scientific progress.
Aligned with the 2025 World Science Day theme, “Trust, Transformation, and Tomorrow: The Science We Need for 2050," the report underscores how UHN’s research continues to shape a more sustainable and equitable future. Guided by our Research Strategic Action Plan, we are driving innovation through Transformative Experiences, Solutions Beyond Boundaries, and Alignment for Impact.
This year’s research report features research advancements, milestones, awards and other highlights from across UHN’s research spaces, including the following:
● UHN’s Research Strategic Action Plan, launched in spring 2025, aims to drive impactful, inclusive, and purpose-driven research and empowers teams to collaborate, accelerate innovation, and translate discovery into real-world solutions.
● Researchers at UHN are redefining care and bringing health care to communities through mobile health clinics.
● Scientists are engineering human heart tissue from human cells to study early cardiac development and have uncovered a role of cardiac immune cells.
● A new AI-driven tool, AnnoSpat (Annotator and Spatial Pattern Finder), was developed to identify different cell types and map their spatial position in tissues, helping scientists better understand how cells behave in tissues.
● UHN has introduced six Collaborative Centres, purpose-built hubs where scientists, clinicians, engineers, policy experts, and patients work together to address some of health care’s most complex challenges. Several Centres are building partnerships to expand their reach and impact.
Join us in celebrating a year of discovery and progress toward A Healthier World.
Click here to read the full report. Previous reports can be found here.
Watch the 2024–2025 UHN Research Report welcome message from Dr. Brad Wouters, Executive Vice President of Science and Research at UHN.