Christine Bear

Class of 2019

Christine is a biomedical researcher and educator. She is a Senior Scientist at SickKids Hospital and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Driven by a need to understand the consequences of genetic disorders, she is developing and participating in teams that include geneticists, stem cell biologists and clinicians. She is excited by the promise of technological advances to address the urgent medical needs that we face now and will encounter in the future. Through journalism she will communicate the insights needed to understand the promise and potential risk associated with these rapidly advancing fields.

Clippings

  • The Toronto Star

How a high-fat diet might put your children and grandchildren at risk of diabetes and heart disease

  • CBC

Health Canada says it will set cap on arsenic in food

  • 2019
  • National Post

Health Canada says it will set cap on arsenic in food, looks to Europe for standard

  • 2019
  • National Post

Having one mental health disorder increases your risks of getting another

  • 2019
  • The Conversation

Having one mental health disorder increases your risks of getting another

  • 2019
  • The Conversation

How childhood infections requiring antibiotics may increase risks of mental illness

  • CIUT 89.5 FM

GLOBAL BEATS SHOW #2

  • 2019
  • CIUT 89.5 FM

GLOBAL BEATS SHOW #1

  • 2019
  • The Conversation

Twins in space: How space travel affects gene expression

  • 2019
  • CBC

Bridging the ‘genomic divide’: Lack of Indigenous DNA data a challenge for researchers