June 2023
Successful Defense
Congratulations to Cindy Wan for successfully defending her M.Sc. The Ditlev lab wishes you all the best in medical school!!
October 2022
SickKids host scientific RI retreat at the Roy Thompson Hall!
Check out the posters made by the Ditlev Lab members in the Gallery section
May 2022
Funding Secured!
Congratulations to Cindy Wan for successfully obtaining a CGS-M NSERC Award!
January 2022
New Lab Members Joins!
Cindy Wan and Zeynep Bekci join as M.Sc and PhD candidates, respectively! WELCOME! Read more about Cindy and Zeynap on the Team Members page.
May 2021
Successful Transfer!
Congratulations to Gaddy Rakhaminov for successfully transferring to the PhD program.
News (with comments from Jonathon Ditlev): Drug startups coalesce around condensates
The new firms — Nereid Therapeutics, Transition Bio and Faze Medicines — together with Dewpoint and others have now collectively raised >$300 million in venture capital funding for an idea that proponents say could rewrite the rules of drug development. “Lots of the dysregulation that you see in disease is connected to condensates,” says Rick Young…
January 2021
New Lab Member Joins!
Dr. Leshani Ahangama Liyanage joins as a postdoc! Read more about her on the Team Members page.
News (with comments from Jonathon Ditlev): How cells’ ‘lava lamp’ effect could make cancer drugs more powerful
There’s a long-standing assumption in the pharmaceutical industry that when drug molecules enter a cell, they spread through it evenly — but, says biologist Rick Young, “that could not be further from the truth”…
The new kid on the block: getting to know Dr. Jonathan Ditlev
Dr. Jonathon Ditlev joined our department in August of 2019. His current topic of interest is the postsynaptic density, a membraneless organelle found within the synaptic region of the neuron. His efforts are motivated by an attempt to better understand the way neurons communicate with each other. Originally from the United States, Jon completed his PhD at the University of Connecticut and shortly thereafter, pursued postdoctoral work in the HHMI lab of Mike Rosen, whereby his love of phase separation was firmly established. Jon now finds himself in the land of Tim Hortons and in search of the greatest Tex-Mex this city can offer. Read more to hear his thoughts on what it’s like to start a lab, his life as a father-scientist, and a bit of sage advice…