Dr. Michael Tymianski in the News
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Tymianski, cross-appointed to U of T Physiology and neurosurgeon and senior scientist at the Toronto Western Hospital’s Krembil Research Institute. The Toronto Star featured Dr. Tymianski's recent clinical trial of a drug that could lead to significantly better outcomes for stroke patients.
"'To my knowledge, this is the first time in the history of man that a trial has shown that (a brain-protecting drug) may improve the functional outcome of people with devastating strokes,' says Dr. Michael Tymianski, who created the compound and has been its staunch and often lonely champion for more than two decades.
'That is a real scientific milestone,' says Tymianski, a neurosurgeon and senior scientist at the Toronto Western Hospital’s Krembil Research Institute....
It’s 'a difference between paralysis and walking out of the hospital' for the patients who responded to the drug, said University of Calgary neurologist Michael Hill, the lead co-ordinator of the international study."