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SUMMARY:Invited Academic Seminar Series- Samir Mitragotri
DESCRIPTION:A Hitchhiker’s and Backpacker’s Guide to Drug Delivery\n\n\n\nTargeted delivery of drugs offers a potential to maximize their efficacy and minimize toxicity. Towards this goal\, several novel synthetic drug carriers have been designed and developed. However\, upon injection in the body\, these carriers face the challenge of poor blood circulation\, limited targeting and the inability to negotiate many biological barriers. Biology has provided many examples of successful “carriers” in the form of circulatory cells including red blood cells\, macrophages\, neutrophils and T cells\, among others\, which routinely overcome the hurdles faced by synthetic carriers. We have developed “cellular hitchhiking and backpacking” approaches which involve combining synthetic carriers with circulatory cells to drastically alter the in vivo fate of the carriers as well as the cells. I will provide an overview of the principles and applications of hitchhiking and backpacking approaches for therapeutic delivery and cell therapy. \n\n\n\nBiosketch\n\n\n\nSamir Mitragotri is the Hiller Professor of Bioengineering and Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. His research is focused on drug delivery and it has led to new technologies for delivering small molecules\, proteins\, nucleic acids and cells. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering\, National Academy of Medicine\, National Academy of Inventors and American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is an author on over 400 publications and an inventor on over 300 patents/patent applications. He is also an elected fellow of AAAS\, CRS\, BMES\, AIMBE\, and AAPS. He received BS in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology\, India and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/invited-academic-seminar-series-samir-mitragotri/
LOCATION:Victoria College\, Chapel (Room 213)\, 91 Charles St W\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 2C7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Aazad Abbas
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: SMART Scheduling: Integrated Machine Learning & Optimization for Comprehensive Operating Room Management\nSupervisor Name: Cari Whyne\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-aazad-abbas/
LOCATION:MS2158
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Vishal Pendse
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: PACT: A Predictive Algorithm for Automated Upper-Limb Prosthetic Socket Design\nAbstract: Well-fitting sockets are crucial for successful upper-limb prosthesis use\, yet current digital socket design workflows are not standardized and demand considerable clinician effort. In this study\, we introduce the Predictive Algorithm for Customized Transradial Socket Design (PACT)\, which generates socket models from a 3D limb scan. It works by retrieving the most similar limb–socket pair from a reference library of prosthetist-designed prosthetic sockets and applying isotropic and anisotropic scaling adjustments to match the input limb. To validate the algorithm\, the PACT-predicted sockets for 19 participants were compared to their prosthetist-designed ones (the clinical “gold standard”) using the surface Euclidean (L2) distances\, volume differences\, and a 100-slice cross-sectional-area analysis. Localized discrepancies were mapped via signed-distance colorization and clustered with DBSCAN. PACT’s outputs differed from prosthetist designs by 2.11 ± 0.51 mm on the surface and 2.74 ± 2.56% in volume on average; slice-wise area differences were within ±10% for most of the socket length\, with larger errors near the proximal trimline and distal tip. Recurrent localized discrepancies were found to be concentrated at the anterior-distal trimline (15/19 cases) and anterior–posterior compression (11/19 cases)\, indicating clear targets for rule-based or measurement-informed refinements. Subgroup patterns suggested an age-related bias (undersizing in pediatric\, oversizing in adults). Overall\, PACT quickly delivers (13.2 ± 0.7 s) a first-draft transradial socket within commonly cited clinical fit tolerances. Focus on specific regions\, along with metadata such as tissue stiffness\, age\, and clinician-led measurements\, can improve personalization and generalizability in future iterations of the PACT.\nSupervisor Name: Jan Andrysek\nYear of Study: 5\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-vishal-pendse-2/
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Pedram Karimi
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: Investigating Gait Adaptations from Repeated Exposure to Walking on Ice\nAbstract: Slips on ice are a major cause of falls\, yet practice-related gait adaptation on ice remains poorly understood. This study examined changes in slope-negotiation capacity and gait mechanics over seven consecutive sessions in 10 healthy adults. Maximum Reachable Slope Angle increased from 5.6 ± 2.0° to 8.4 ± 1.3° (p<0.001). Peak required coefficient of friction did not change significantly across level\, uphill\, or downhill walking. During level walking\, normalized peak anteroposterior shear force decreased from 0.060 ± 0.025 to 0.023 ± 0.011 (p<0.001)\, while mediolateral shear force increased from 0.015 ± 0.006 to 0.035 ± 0.026 (p<0.001)\, with similar directional changes on slopes. Estimated walking speed decreased across sessions during level (p<0.02) and uphill (p<0.002) walking. These findings suggest that repeated exposure improved performance through gait reorganization rather than a simple reduction in overall friction demand.\nSupervisor Name: Tilak Dutta\nYear of Study: 3\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-pedram-karimi/
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Niroja Balakumar
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: Investigating In-Bed Repositioning for Pressure Injury Prevention\nAbstract:\nRegular repositioning is important for preventing pressure injuries (PIs). However\, there\nare indications that i) the current best practice for repositioning may not sufficiently\noffload high-risk areas of the body and ii) there is a need for better tools for measuring\nadherence to the 2-hour repositioning standard. The primary aims of this thesis were to 1)\nevaluate the quality of offloading when current repositioning best practices were used 2)\nevaluate the use of ankle-mounted IMUs to measure 2-hour repositioning schedules.\nTwenty-three participants adopted 39 in-bed positions while wearing ankle IMUs and\nforce sensing resistors on key body locations. Repositioning at ±45° side-lying positions\nwas found to offload high risk areas of the body better than the ±30° side-lying best\npractice. An XGBoost classifier trained using ankle IMU data achieved an F1 score of 95.2%\nfor posture-classification\, demonstrating good potential for the IMU-based system.\nSupervisor Name: Tilak Dutta\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-niroja-balakumar/
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