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Skule Lunch & Learn – “Artificial Tissues for Personalized Medicine: A Powerful Tool for Healthcare and Drug Development”

Virtual – ONLINE

On November 8th, 2023, join us for an exclusive Skule™ Lunch & Learn featuring 2023 EAN Award Winner, Professor Alison McGuigan. Aging populations and chronic diseases are posing unprecedented challenges to healthcare systems. McGuigan’s groundbreaking work on artificial tissues offers transformative opportunities to revolutionize drug development, personalized therapies, and predictive disease detection.   Secure your spot […]

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Symmetry breaking and self-organization in living cells – Alexander Dunn

Wallberg Memorial Building, Room 116 184 College St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Speaker Alexander Dunn Associate Professor Department of Chemical Engineering Stanford University Abstract Living cells are the quintessential smart materials, whose ability to move, change shape, and assemble into complex, multicellular organisms ultimately stems from the molecular-scale interactions of their constituent protein components. How exactly nanoscale protein-protein interactions dictate the complex material and functional properties of […]

TBEP Research Seminar (Dr. Sheng Xu): Wearable ultrasound technology for monitoring deep tissues

Dr. Sheng Xu (University of California San Diego, Associate Professor and Jacobs Faculty Scholar) will demonstrate a soft ultrasonic technology that can noninvasively and continuously acquire dynamic information about deep tissues and central organs. He will also showcase examples of this technology's use in recording blood pressure and flow waveforms in central vessels, monitoring cardiac […]

Graduate Student Seminar Series – Hannah Van Lankveld

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Graduate Student Seminar Series Please ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the 'Add Guest' button and they will also be notified of your presentation. Location: WB116 Presentation Title: Physiological Effect of Non-invasive Photobiomodulation in the Healthy Human Brain Abstract: Transcranial Photobiomodulation (tPBM) is the application of low levels of red […]

BME Faculty, Student & Staff Townhall

RS211 164 College St, Room 211, Rosebrugh Building, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Come join us for our Town Hall meeting. Faculty, students and staff are all invited.

10th National SCI Conference

The 10th National Spinal Cord Injury Conference is taking place on November 21-23 in Toronto. This interdisciplinary event brings together researcher, clinicians, and persons with lived experience to discuss novel contributions to knowledge generation, clinical/best practice implementation, policy change, and technology innovation. The event is an excellent opportunity for BME students interested in exploring applications of […]

Graduate Student Seminar Series – Sara Alatrash

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Graduate Student Seminar Series Please ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the 'Add Guest' button and they will also be notified of your presentation. Location: WB116 Presentation Title: Irritability in Autism Supervisor Name: Azadeh Kushki Year of Study: 2 Program of Study: MASc Powered by Calendly.com

Graduate Student Seminar Series – Simeon Wong

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Graduate Student Seminar Series Please ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the 'Add Guest' button and they will also be notified of your presentation. Location: WB116 Presentation Title: Closed-loop acoustic neuromodulation for the treatment of pediatric epilepsy Supervisor Name: George Ibrahim Year of Study: 4 Program of Study: PhD Powered […]

Graduate Student Seminar Series – Samuel Lasinski

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Graduate Student Seminar Series Please ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the 'Add Guest' button and they will also be notified of your presentation. Location: WB116 Presentation Title: A Roll-to-Roll Approach for the Fabrication of Meter-Long Aligned Collagen Sheet Scaffolds Supervisor Name: Prof. Axel Guenther Year of Study: 2 Program […]

Targeting myeloid cells for cancer and other human diseases

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, 610 University Ave, 6th floor, Bob Bell Auditorium

Betty Y.S. Kim, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FAANS Professor, Physician Scientist Department of Neurosurgery UT - MD Anderson Cancer Center Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, 610 University Ave, 6th floor, Bob Bell Auditorium Monday, November 27, 2023 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. Host: Dr. Gang Zheng

Peptide-based materials for soft tissue and organ repair

Emilio I. Alarcóna,b* aUniversity of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology,. bUniversity of Ottawa Heart Institute, Cardiac Surgery, Ottawa, Canada. Abstract Bioinspired synthetic materials offer reliable and cost-effective access to biomaterials. However, the use of potentially toxic chemical crosslinkers for matrix assembly added to the limitations in finely tuning their mechanical properties […]

Graduate Student Seminar Series – Allison Tolgyesi

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Graduate Student Seminar Series Please ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the 'Add Guest' button and they will also be notified of your presentation. Location: WB116 Presentation Title: Generation of Synthetic µCT Images of Rat Lumbar Vertebral Fracture via Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks Supervisor Name: Cari Whyne Year of […]

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