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JLABS gives IBBME startup a place to call home
May 11, 2016 | Professor Jinzi Zheng’s startup, Nanovista, opens in JLABS @ Toronto
Tracking nanoparticles with transparent organs to help fight cancer and other diseases
May 11, 2016 | Two PhD candidates from Professor Warren Chan’s Integrated Nanotechnology and Biomedical Sciences Laboratory have improved a technique to turn organs transparent, allowing them to track the locations of nanoparticles in the body
Professor Paul Yoo receives U of T Connaught Innovation Award
May 10, 2016 | IBBME faculty member awarded internal university funding for overactive bladder treatment research
Two innovative biomedical devices from the Hammers & Nails Initiative
April 29, 2016 | Devices created by students in undergraduate biomedical design courses could help ophthalmology students learn to diagnose eye disease and prevent falls among the elderly
How many nanoparticle-based drugs reach tumours? Less than one per cent, U of T study shows
April 26, 2016 | “Reality check” meta-analysis published in Nature Reviews Materials reveals that only 0.7 per cent of designer nanoparticles reach their intended target
Camila Londono receives 2016 U of T Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award
April 21, 2016 | PhD candidate recognized for outstanding volunteer service to the University community
$1.65 million NSERC CREATE grant boosts lab-grown human tissue research
April 14, 2016 | Professor Milica Radisic is the lead recipient of a major federal government grant designed to help train a new generation of biomedical engineering researchers
An engineering road map for scaling up production of stem cell-derived treatments
April 7, 2016 | PhD candidate Yonatan Lipsitz and Professor Peter Zandstra outline a framework for manufacturing stem cell therapeutics
Professor Michael Sefton receives European Society for Biomaterials International Award
April 1, 2016 | IBBME professor recognized for global scientific contributions in the field of biomaterials
Engineering Innovations Forum—Tissue Engineering: Radisic [VIDEO]
April 1, 2016 | Professor Milica Radisic shared her latest lab discoveries with the public in March as part of National Engineering Month
#Biophys16—A different kind of conference experience
March 30, 2016 | PhD candidate Teresa Zulueta-Coarasa shares her thoughts on why you should attend a conference like this one in the future
Tailored protein binding opens possibilities for nerve, tissue treatments
March 17, 2016 | U of T biomedical engineers outline best techniques for discovering protein-binding molecules with the potential to treat conditions from stroke to heart disease