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From bench to Broker

(my journey from

research to impact) David Phipps, Ph.D., MBA Executive Director, Research & Innovations Services

@researchimpact

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Undergrad MICR-360 – Immunology

Course Description:

The general principles and

mechanism of immune reaction.

Immunochemical and

immunobiological aspects of antibody

formation and cell-mediated immunity

in health and disease will be

considered.

COREQUISITE OR PREREQUISITE.

BCHM 310 or 315* or BIOL-334*/0.5

or equivalent , or permission of the

instructor.

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PhD: Bugs

The identification, isolation and characterization of

Gallysin-1, a hemolytic effector protein of the greater wax

moth, Galleria mellonella

David J. Phipps, June S. Chadwick and W. Peter Aston

(1994) Gallysin-1, an antibacterial protein isolated from

hemolymph of Galleria mellonella. Dev. Comp.

Immunol. 18: 13-23

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PhD: Bugs

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Ballet

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Post-doc: Blood Phipps D.J. and Branch D.R. (1997), Increased

enzymatic activity of the T-cell antigen receptor-

associated Fyn protein tyrosine kinase in

asymptomatic patients infected with the human

immunodeficiency virus. Blood 90 (9):3603-3612

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Post-doc: Blood

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Elizabeth Badley

“from chromosome to community”

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Senator Colin Kenny: Commercializing the Outcomes of

Health Research (2002) in: The Health of Canadians –

The Federal Role, Final Report. Volume Six:

Recommendations for Reform. The Standing Senate

Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology

http://bit.ly/eNL45i

Kananaskis G8 Summit, G8 Africa Action Plan (2002) section 6.4

http://bit.ly/eitIPj

“We commit to:…Supporting health research on diseases prevalent in

Africa, with a view to narrowing the health research gap, including by

expanding health research networks to focus on African health issues, and

by making more extensive use of researchers based in Africa”

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ResearchImpact-RéseauImpactRecherche

Group of 12 Canadian

universities actively

developing programming for

knowledge mobilization to

transfer research into social

and economic benefits for

local and global communities

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York University KMb Unit Services

• Knowledge brokering

• Event planning

• Capacity building

• Support for grant applications

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Toronto Hot Weather Response Plan

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http://www.thestar.com/article/462613

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Toronto Hot Weather Response Plan

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Knowledge Mobilization

community

campus

campus

community

collaboration Impact HOW WHAT

Knowledge mobilization helps make research

useful to society by supporting engaged

scholarship from inception to impact

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Activity Output Outcome

Impact

Dissemination Uptake Implementation Co-production

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Co-produced pathway to impact

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