The following are press releases from the Department of Microbiology. These press releases are about our accomplishments, current partnerships, and future projects.

• July 26, 2004
  Mount Sinai Hospital researchers and patients key to new research in flesh-eating disease
• June 25, 2004
  Mount Sinai Hospital Announces Partnership with Oxegen Inc. to develop and market a full suite of electronic Infection Control training and testing modules
• April 18, 2002
  Dr. Allison McGeer receives one of The 2002 Karen McGibbon Awards of Excellence
• December 4, 2001
  Dr. Kelly MacDonald appointed as the inaugural chair in HIV/AIDS Research at the University of Toronto
• November 14, 2001
  Dr. Donald Low to chair national committee on bioterrorism
• January 2001
  Dr. Donald Low receives prestigious award for research in Clinical Microbiology
• May 4, 2000
  Superbugs and flesh eating disease have a new foe - Microbiology launches new website
• Sept 28, 1999
  Group A Strep Collaborator wins ICAAC Young Investigators Award.
• August 19, 1999
  Group A Strep research group receives award for best clinical article published in Clinical Infectious Diseases for their paper "Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in streptococcal toxic shock syndrome"
• August 10 ,1999
  Still room to be optimistic in the battle against antimicrobial resistance states the most recent LPTP survey report
• July 16, 1999
  Infection Control Program commended by Accreditation Team
• July 1, 1999
  Dr. Allison McGeer receives two new Medical Research Council (MRC) grants
• July , 1999
  Dr. Kelly MacDonald appointed to Federal Ministerial Council on HIV/AIDS