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Tiny filters help detect cancerous blood cells

December 3, 2019

November 19, 2019 | A computer model is used to guide the design of tiny pillars in a microfluidic device used to detect malignant multiple myeloma cells

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Celebrating Excellence in Athletics and Academics

November 28, 2019

November 28, 2019 | 3 IBBME Students Receive Varsity Blues Award

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Milos R. Popovic wins the Engineering Medal

November 18, 2019

November 8, 2019 | Milos R. Popovic, PhD, P.Eng., wins the Engineering Medal – Entrepreneurship at the 2019 OPEA Gala

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Fall Convocation 2019: Three graduating students share their one-minute thesis

November 7, 2019

November 7, 2019 | U of T engineering have chatted with Locke Davenport Huyer (ChemE, IBBME PhD 1T9) about his research topic in graduate school.

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Engineering the brain: the promise of neural engineering in medicine

October 31, 2019

October 31, 2019 | In conversation with Dr. José Zariffa on how the field could address conditions from Alzheimer’s disease to vision loss.

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IBBME startup partner receives FDA ‘breakthrough’ status in dialysis product

October 25, 2019

October 25, 2019 | Interface Biologics’s (IBI) antithrombogenic additive have been used in a new line of FDA-approved “breakthrough” dialysis products made by IBI’s partner, Fresenius Medical Care.

Professor Milica Radisic Receives TERMIS Award for Innovation and Commercialization

Professor Milica Radisic Receives TERMIS Award for Innovation and Commercialization

October 4, 2019

October 8, 2019 | Professor Milica Radisic (Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering), Professor Boyang Zhang (IBBME Alumni), and Dr. Yimu Zhao (Chemical Engineering, IBBME) had been awarded the 2019 Innovation & Commercialization Award by Tissue Engineering International & Regenerative Medicine Society (TERMIS).

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Jan Andrysek Lab

September 17, 2019

September 17, 2019 | Dr. Jan Andrysek’s lab is dedicated to help amputees to regain movement in their lower limbs.

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Dr. Molly Shoichet – Order of Canada

September 12, 2019

September 12 2019 | Dr. Molly Shoichet received the Order of Canada at the end of 2017

Michael Sefton

Dr. Michael Sefton – Order of Canada

September 12, 2019

September 12 2019 | Dr. Michael Sefton received the Order of Canada at the end of 2017.

Tom Chau

Dr. Tom Chau – Order of Ontario

September 12, 2019

September 12 2019 | Dr. Tom Chau received the Order of Ontario in 2018.

Geoff Fernie

Dr. Geoff Fernie – Order of Canada

September 12, 2019

September 12 2019 | Dr. Geoff Fernie received the Order of Canada at the end of 2017