Professor Milica Radisic Discovers Cure for Broken Heart
The best medicine for a broken heart, it turns out, might not be time or chocolate or revenge, but a peptide with the unlikely name QHREDGS Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME/ChemE) is a leader in cardiovascular tissue engineering, the science of building living tissues using cells and biomaterials. She grows heart cells in her lab and […]
IBBME Faculty Honoured for Excellence in Education
Professors Tom Chau and Dr. Albert Yee of the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) were honoured at a gala ceremony at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine’s Annual Education Achievement Celebration on April 26. Professor Chau, core faculty at IBBME, has been awarded the Graduate Faculty Teaching Award and the Graduate Student […]
IBBME to Offer Clinical Engineering PhD Concentration for Fall 2011
April 6, 2011 A new Clinical Engineering concentration within the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering‘s PhD program has been approved for launch in September 2011. The new concentration, for doctoral candidates with an undergraduate engineering degree, will emphasize enhancing patient safety, quality of care and quality of life, and to be prepared to meet […]
Professor Michael Sefton Awarded the 2011 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal
The 2011 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal has been awarded to Professor Michael Sefton (IBBME, ChemE). The award recognizes excellence and leadership in biomaterials research and practical applications. Professor Sefton is regarded as a pioneer in tissue engineering and a leader in biomaterials, biomedical engineering and regenerative medicine. He is the first to recognize the importance […]
Study Shows Benefits of Electrical Stimulation Therapy for People Paralyzed by Spinal-Cord Injury
In a study published online in the journal Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Toronto researchers report that functional electrical stimulation (FES) therapy worked better than conventional occupational therapy alone to increase patients’ ability to pick up and hold objects. FES therapy uses low-intensity electrical pulses generated by a pocket-sized electric stimulator. “This study proves that by […]
Molly Shoichet is Named to Ontario’s Highest Honour
Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, IBBME), a world-renowned researcher of regenerative medicine, is among 30 new appointees to the Order of Ontario, the provincial government announced on Friday. The appointees to Ontario’s highest honour were chosen for their contributions to the arts, justice, science, medicine, history, politics, philanthropy and the environment. The Honourable David C. Onley, […]
IBBME Professors Receive Nearly $6.5 Million in Funding from CIHR
Professors Shana Kelley, Michael Sefton and Gang Zheng of the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) have received nearly $6.5 million in research funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), it was announced on Monday. These grants come from the Emerging Team Grant: Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine program which will back IBBME research […]
U of T-hosted Regenerative Medicine Project Awarded $15 Million from Federal Government
Developing products that will enable treatments for devastating health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer and spinal cord injuries is the focus of a major University of Toronto-hosted research and commercialization initiative that has been awarded $15 million by the Government of Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE). The Centre for Commercialization of […]
Calgary Scientists to Create Human ‘Neurochip’
The science fiction of melding man and machine has played out for decades onscreen, from The Six Million Dollar Man to The Terminator. But the bionic hybrid age may well be flickering to life – real life – in the Calgary lab where scientists who made history fusing snail brain cells to a computer microchip six years ago […]
