In the early aughts, Dr. Justyna Bartoszko took a summer job recruiting participants for a study at the Hospital for Sick Children’s Research Institute. ‘It was a silly summer job,’ she says, ‘But it was an experience gaining project.’
Jumping over a three-foot-tall fence on horseback at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair last month was child’s play compared to the health hurdles Haldimand teen Kylie Searles had to clear in recent years.
The work by Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi uncovered a key pathway the body uses to keep the immune system in check, called peripheral immune tolerance.
