
Two BME doctoral students awarded 2022 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships
The scholarships provide $150,000 in funding and recognize students for leadership, research impact and academic achievement

U of T Engineering lab partners with Moderna to develop RNA-based tools to treat and prevent disease
Professor Omar F. Khan’s lab group is designing new platforms that deliver RNA to the body, addressing a range of biomedical challenges

Seeing smaller than light: How an advanced microscopy technique can help in the fight against cancer and other diseases
Professor Chris Yip (ChemE/BME) and his team have developed a method for tagging and imaging cell surface components that are only a few nanometres apart

New CRAFT Tissue Foundry provides infrastructure dedicated to bioengineering innovation
The open research facility at U of T’s Mechanical Engineering Building is an expansion of the partnership between the University and the National Research Council of Canada

New strategy for delivery of therapeutic proteins could help treat degenerative eye diseases
Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, BME, Donnelly) and her team have created a hydrogel that slowly releases multiple therapeutic proteins at independently controlled rates

U of T Engineering team designs new hydrogel that opens pathways to more targeted cancer treatments
The bio-inspired material enables lab-grown cells to emulate the complex processes found in the human body

New academic-industry partnership aims to lower the cost of cultivated meat
Professor Michael Garton (BME) partners with Myo Palate on project focused on efficiently growing animal muscle cells outside the body