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Professors and alumnus elected Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada
Professors and alumnus elected Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada
By raising lab coats to the rafters, U of T biomedical engineering lab celebrates its student MVPs
By raising lab coats to the rafters, U of T biomedical engineering lab celebrates its student MVPs
Exit Strategy
Sarah Sarabadani, Michael Li, and Marija Cotic worked in different Biomedical Engineering labs at the University of Toronto. Now they have all converged at Klick Health, a rapidly growing healthcare marketing and commercialization agency, headquartered in Toronto. We sat down to talk about their day-to-day activities and how they were able to leverage their skills to transition into non-traditional healthcare roles.
Making the (right) Cut
Co-founded in 2013 by Liz Munro (IBBME0T9), Perimeter Medical Imaging’s mission is to provide better tools for cancer surgeons. They specialize in building real-time, high resolution imaging devices which provide sub-surface images of tissue that can be used by surgeons for intra-operative tissue assessment.
Cancer Cartographers
Imagine being dropped off at the edge of an urban city with crisscrossing streets and no navigational instructions. The roads often run into dead-ends and are full of pot-holes, the network reception is non-existent, and the buildings aren’t numbered. If you want to get from the edge of the city into the downtown core, the only logical way is to map out your own route.
Non-invasive Biosurveillance
Dr. Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng is an IBBME/ECE faculty member at the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research.
Walking Manual
When Dr. Jan Andrysek was a master’s student at Holland Bloorview Hospital in 1998, he was already working alongside rehabilitation engineers and clinicians to develop solutions to help kids walk.
Tiny filters help detect cancerous blood cells
A computer model is used to guide the design of tiny pillars in a microfluidic device used to detect malignant multiple myeloma cells
Celebrating Excellence in Athletics and Academics
3 IBBME Students Receive Varsity Blues Award
Milos R. Popovic wins the Engineering Medal
Milos R. Popovic, PhD, P.Eng., wins the Engineering Medal – Entrepreneurship at the 2019 OPEA Gala
Fall Convocation 2019: Three graduating students share their one-minute thesis
U of T engineering have chatted with Locke Davenport Huyer (ChemE, IBBME PhD 1T9) about his research topic in graduate school.
Engineering the brain: the promise of neural engineering in medicine
In conversation with Dr. José Zariffa on how the field could address conditions from Alzheimer’s disease to vision loss.
IBBME startup partner receives FDA ‘breakthrough’ status in dialysis product
Interface Biologics’s (IBI) antithrombogenic additive have been used in a new line of FDA-approved “breakthrough” dialysis products made by IBI’s partner, Fresenius Medical Care.
Professor Milica Radisic Receives TERMIS Award for Innovation and Commercialization
Professor Milica Radisic (Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering), Professor Boyang Zhang (IBBME Alumni), and Dr. Yimu Zhao (Chemical Engineering, IBBME) had been awarded the 2019 Innovation & Commercialization Award by Tissue Engineering International & Regenerative Medicine Society (TERMIS).
Jan Andrysek Lab
Dr. Jan Andrysek’s lab is dedicated to help amputees to regain movement in their lower limbs.
Dr. Molly Shoichet – Order of Canada
Dr. Molly Shoichet received the Order of Canada at the end of 2017
Dr. Michael Sefton – Order of Canada
Dr. Michael Sefton received the Order of Canada at the end of 2017.
Dr. Tom Chau – Order of Ontario
Dr. Tom Chau received the Order of Ontario in 2018.
Dr. Geoff Fernie – Order of Canada
Dr. Geoff Fernie received the Order of Canada at the end of 2017
A diabetes drug promotes brain repair — but it only works in females, U of T study shows
Accounting for sex differences could be key for the development of better treatments as drug shows promise for brain repair in females only.
Building the perfect restoration
Multidisciplinary team awarded five year, $1M project grant to develop a new filling material
This U of T Engineering innovation makes implants safer, and is attracting new investment to Toronto
Global chemical company Evonik will maintain presence in Toronto after acquiring part of U of T spinoff Interface Biologics, Inc.
Four IBBME faculty members received promotion
Dr. Margaret Hai-Ling Cheng, Naomi Matsuura, and José Zariffa were promoted to the Associate Professor rank, and Dr. Julie Audet was promoted to the Professor rank.
Microrobots to change the way we work with cellular material
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers in the lab of Professor Aaron Wheeler have demonstrated a novel and non-invasive way to manipulate cells through microrobotics.