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Five U of T Engineering professors and alumni receive Ontario Professional Engineers Awards
May 6, 2019 | Five U of T Engineering professors and alumni have been honoured by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) with Ontario Professional Engineers Awards.
RBC Fellowships Celebrates AI Research in Biomedical Engineering
April 10, 2019 | Benjamin Kingston and Dr. Nasim Montazeri are two of the IBBME recipients of the 2019 Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Post-Doctoral & Graduate Fellowships.
Not all stem cells are created equal
March 21, 2019 | Cells known as “elite clones” appear to outcompete their neighbours in the process of becoming stem cells, shown in a research paper published in Science.
Artificial lung cancer tissue could help find new drug treatments
February 25, 2019 | A 3D hydrogel created by researchers in University Professor Molly Shoichet’s lab is helping University of Ottawa researchers to quickly screen hundreds of potential drugs for their ability to fight highly invasive cancers.
Molly Shoichet named a Distinguished Woman in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
February 15, 2019 | University Professor Molly Shoichet has been named a 2019 Distinguished Woman in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
U of T Engineering researchers design ‘training gym’ for lab-grown heart cells
January 24, 2019 | Heart muscle cells need exercise — even when they grow outside the human body. A new device designed by U of T Engineering researchers uses a rigorous training regimen to grow small amounts of cardiac tissue and measure how strongly it beats.
Leo Chou joins IBBME as assistant professor
January 15, 2019 | Dr. Leo Chou joined the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) as an assistant professor.
Brain Control
December 28, 2018 | Dr. Tom Chau’s lab is bringing mobility to those who opt to use their mind to control movements
Collective Movement
December 28, 2018 | Professor Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez is trying to tease out the communication barriers between cells during wound repair
“Having a Disability is Background Noise to Me”
December 28, 2018 | After a climbing accident left him paralysed from the neck down, newly appointed University of Toronto Professor Michael Garton forged a new career in research
Catching up with an Alumnus
December 25, 2018 | In early 2015, Dr. Alborz Mahdavi started his company, Protomer Technologies after completing his studies at the University of Toronto and California Institute of Technology
U of T Engineering partners with NRC to commercialize biomedical innovations
November 26, 2018 | U of T Engineering is partnering with Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) to create a national innovation hub focused on microfluidics.