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U of T biomedical engineer Tom Chau (left) pictured with his research students, is this year’s recipient of the March of Dimes Canada’s Jonas Salk Pioneer Award, recognizing his sustained scientific contributions to improving the lives of people with physical disabilities. (Photo: Neil Ta)

Tom Chau receives March of Dimes Canada lifetime achievement award

IBBME professor recognized for his world-leading research and education in the field of paediatric rehabilitation

Grads to watch 2016.

Grads to Watch: Meet 16 global engineering leaders

This year’s 16 “Grads to Watch” are just a few of the talented and accomplished Engineering graduates who will receive their degrees at Spring Convocation

Dawn Kilkenny.

Dawn Kilkenny receives national teaching award for excellence in undergraduate engineering education

Award recognizes extraordinary contributions to laboratory-based undergraduate courses at a Canadian engineering school

Peter Zandstra has been has been appointed to the rank of University Professor, U of T’s highest academic rank. (Photo: Roberta Baker)

Peter Zandstra named University Professor, U of T’s highest academic rank

U of T’s highest academic rank recognizes unusual scholarly achievement and pre-eminence in a particular field

Professor Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng and her team have developed a more effective way to monitor cardiac stem cell therapy for treating heart disease. (Photo: Neil Ta)

Novel MRI approach gives heart failure patients new hope

A team of U of T biomedical engineering researchers has developed a novel method that will help shed new light on the effectiveness of stem cell therapy for heart failure patients

Left to right: Jaclyn Obermeyer, Malgosia Pakulska and Irja Elliott Donaghue, supervised by University Professor Molly Shoichet, are the first to show controlled release of proteins without encapsulating them in nanoparticles. (Credit: Marit Mitchell).

Simple attraction: U of T Engineering researchers control protein release from nanoparticles without encapsulation

Discovery stands to improve reliability and fabrication process for treatments for chronic conditions and serious injuries such as spinal cord damage and stroke

Pei-Yu Kuo, a PhD candidate in Forestry, and Rana Sodhi, Senior Research Associate and adjunct professor (ChemE), work on the a new secondary ion mass spectrometer at the Characterization of Advanced Materials (OCCAM). (Photo: Neil Ta)

OCCAM: Advancing research from the depths of the ocean to outer space

The Ontario Centre for the Characterization of Advanced Materials (OCCAM) — a $20 million analytical laboratory at U of T Engineering — has officially unveiled its newest machines and is ready to take on new industrial partnerships

Shrey Sindhwani, Abdullah Syed and their supervisor, Professor Warren Chan, have modified and improved a technique to turn organs transparent, allowing them to track the locations of nanoparticles in the body. (Photo: Neil Ta)

Tracking nanoparticles with transparent organs to help fight cancer and other diseases

An improved technique for clarifying organs can help researchers learn how nanoparticles might be used to diagnose or treat diseases like cancer

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Two innovative biomedical devices from the Hammers & Nails Initiative

Collaboration with SickKids leverages engineering design to solve everyday challenges in hospitals