Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dr. Robinson joined the University of Toronto in 1973 and founded the Congenital Lactic Acidosis Diagnostic and Research Laboratory at SickKids, which is responsible for the biochemical and genetic investigation of mitochondrial disorders with many national and international referrals each year. Dr. Robinson was appointed Professor in 1985, and served as Programme Head for Metabolism (1998-2006) and Acting Programme Head for Cancer and Blood (1999-2002) at SickKids. In 2001 he was awarded the prestigious CIHR Canada Research Chair in Metabolism and Nutrition. In 1998 he was the recipient of the international Barsky Lectureship in Mitochondrial Diseases and in 2011 was honoured with the distinguished Jacob's Ladder Norman Saunders International Research Award in Neurodegenerative Diseases. His work was continuously funded by the Medical Research Council of Canada/Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Genome Canada, March of Dimes and UMDF. He published over 290 articles and reviews and spoke on Lactic Acidemia and mitochondrial diseases, giving over 80 invited national and international lectures. He is the author of the Lactic Acidemia chapter in “The Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease”. He accrued over 12 000 citations and had an exceptional h-index of 60. He also served on the editorial board for Pediatric Research (1999) and on peer review committees for the Canadian Genetic Diseases Network for Centres of Excellence (2002) and UMDF (2001). Dr. Robinson identified more than 10 novel diseases and provided the first clinical descriptions of many more. He did seminal work in the biochemical and molecular characterization of pyruvate dehydrogenase and pyruvate carboxylase deficiencies and various mitochondrial DNA defects and demonstrated underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms as well as correlated mutations with their clinical phenotypes. He showed that in certain mitochondrial respiratory chain defects presenting in childhood, it was the degree of enhancement of oxygen free radical production produced by the genetic lesion that largely correlated with the severity of the disease phenotype. He was part of the team that identified the defective LRPPRC gene affecting cytochrome oxidase as a cause of Leigh syndrome in French Canadian children from the Saguenay region of Quebec and showed how the LRPPRC functions as an mRNA stabilizing protein in mitochondria. His legacy of innovative work earned him profound respect from both his international scientific peers and appreciative families. He mentored numerous PhD and MSc students and postdoctoral fellows for whom he was an exceptional teacher. Known for his infectious laughter, unwavering support, and kindness, he became a lifelong friend to all his staff. His motto was “Once you join the Robinson lab, you are part of it for life!” He retired in March 2012 and spent the last years of his life with his wife Joyce, sons Glynn, Owain, and Alex, grandchildren, nieces, brother Roy, and sister Beryl. He will be deeply missed by all who were fortunate enough to have known him.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.200 | 0.179 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".