Canada Foundation for Innovation Awards 17 Grants to Engineering
A boost of over $1.7-million worth of grants from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has been directed toward Engineering and will be used for infrastructure that will advance research in everything from testing drinking water to cancer. The funding comes from the CFI’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund, a program designed to help universities […]
Six Members of U of T Engineering Community Honoured with Professional Engineers Awards
Six members of the U of T Engineering community have been recognized by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) with Ontario Professional Engineers Awards. Professor Stavros Argyropoulos (MSE) has been awarded a Research and Development Medal. Alumni Michael Branch (ElecE 0T3) received the Young Engineer Award, Carlos de Oliveira (CivE MASc 0T6) garnered the Entrepreneurship […]
First Living 3D Model of Arrhythmic Heart Made From Stem Cells
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) and the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine have developed the first-ever method for creating living, three-dimensional human heart tissue that behaves like mature heart tissue. Importantly, the method can be used to make models of both healthy and arrhythmic beating heart tissue. […]
Gold Medal for iGEM Team at U of T
What does it take to earn a gold medal at the North American iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) competition? For the gold medal-winning team from U of T’s IBBME, it can be summed up in just one word: safety. This year’s iGEM competition, hosted earlier this month at Hart House, brought 550 students from across North […]
Predicting the Fate of Stem Cells
University of Toronto researchers have developed a method that can rapidly screen human stem cells and better control what they will turn into. The technology could have potential use in regenerative medicine and drug development. Findings are published in this week’s issue of the journal Nature Methods. “The work allows for a better understanding of how […]
Till & McCulloch Award Goes to IBBME’s Peter Zandstra
A Canadian technology that has the potential to boost the number of stem cells given to patients undergoing transplants of the blood-forming system has been recognized as the most influential stem cell research paper authored by a Canadian in the past year. The University of Toronto’s Peter Zandstra (IBBME) is the recipient of the prestigious 2013 Till & McCulloch Award […]
IBBME Student Debuts Documentary at Toronto International Film Festival
Professional baseball pitcher, U of T PhD candidate and now filmmaker, Drew Taylor (IBBME 1T4) is unveiling a unique piece of Canada’s history at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Our Man in Tehran, a feature film he co-directed with Larry Weinstein, will air as part of the festival’s Mavericks series, and will introduce film audiences […]
Technology from IBBME Spin-off Receives 2nd Nod from FDA
Interface Biologics, Inc, the spin-off company begun by Professor Paul Santerre (IBBME), has received its second FDA clearance in less than a year for AngioDynamic’s BioFlo Port catheter. The catheter is made with Endexo technology, a biomaterial substance invented by the U of T spin-off company. Added to existing medical devices such as the BioFlo PICC Catheter and […]
Building Open-Source Science with the DropBot
“When it doesn’t really exist anywhere you have to build your own,” said Ryan Fobel (IBBME PhD candidate), who is the mastermind behind the DropBot, a ‘digital microfluidics’ research tool that may just spark a revolution in biomedical engineering research. According to Associate Professor Aaron Wheeler, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry at the […]
