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Building Open-Source Science with the DropBot
PhD Student Ryan Fobel Wires World Wide Community to New Digital Microfluidics Invention July 24, 2013 “When it doesn’t really exist anywhere you have to build your own,” explains Ryan […]
IBBME Prof Wins TERMIS Young Investigator Award
IBBME would like to congratulate core faculty, Assistant Professor Alison McGuigan, who has been selected as the 2013 Young Investigator Award recipient. The award is presented each year by the […]
University of Toronto receives a $30 million commitment from Heart and Stroke Foundation
June 25, 2013 The Heart and Stroke Foundation has announced a $300 million initiative to support cutting-edge heart and stroke research at leading health institutions across the country. The funding […]
IBBME Staff and Faculty Changes: June 2013
June 19, 2013 Professor Christopher Yip will be stepping into the role of Director of the Institute as of July 1, 2013, for a five-year term. Yip, who was Acting […]
U of T Breakthrough Allows Fast, Reliable Pathogen Identification
June 12, 2013 | Engineering A U of T team – including researchers from Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering – has created an electronic […]
Seven Toronto Research Organizations Join New Non-Profit Global Alliance for the Responsible Sharing of Genomic and Clinical Data
Jun 11, 2013 Dr. Catharine Whiteside, Dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and Vice Provost, Relations with Health Care Institutions, today announced that seven of Toronto’s leading […]
A Discovery of Talent and Drive
Ontario Centres of Excellence Discovery conference places IBBME ingenuity 4 June, 2013 IBBME’s graduate students were in the spotlight at the recent Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Discovery conference, held […]
Convocation 2013: five U of T health leaders to watch
June 4, 2013 | Lanna Crucefix As the class of 2013 graduates this June, U of T News looks at some of the students who will be changing health care and advancing […]
IBBME Cross-Appointee Eugenia Kumacheva named University Professor
Professor Eugenia Kumacheva Eugenia Kumacheva was born in Odessa, Soviet Union. She received her undergraduate degree (cum laude) from the Technical University in Saint Petersburg. She spent several years in […]
NSERC Presents Two Minutes with Warren Chan
IBBME core professor Warren Chan discusses his research in nanotechnology, through which Chan is creating platforms for fast, cost-efficient and simple disease detection.
MATCHOntario-On-A-Chip Symposium 2013
The MATCH/Ontario-on-a-Chip Symposium, an annual tradition for the past eight years, brought celebrated speakers to the University of Toronto’s Trinity College for two days of lectures on microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip […]
Connaught New Researcher Awards Go to 13 U of T Engineers
May 24, 2013 | Engineering Forty-one researchers from across U of T have won Connaught New Researcher Awards to help them launch their academic careers. Among them are 13 U […]