Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry (ChemE)

Professor Milica Radici (IBBME, ChemE, left) develops lab-grown human tissues that could be used to test new drugs or repair damaged organs. (Photo: Neil Ta)

New frontiers in health-care innovation

January 25, 2017

This article originally appeared in the 2016 issue of Skulematters magazine. Interdisciplinary research from U of T Engineering is helping us live longer, healthier lives. These projects from across our Faculty illustrate leading-edge innovations that will improve health care, from planning and prevention to diagnosis and treatment: Optimizing surgical schedules Long wait lists for elective surgeries […]

A pine forest in Finland. Professor Emma Master (ChemE) is collaborating with researchers around the world (including at Aalto University in Helsinki) to create new materials from trees that could replace fossil fuel-derived substances in everyday products, from adhesives to food packaging. (Photo: Emma Master)

Paper, not plastic: Leveraging microbial genes to make greener materials

December 16, 2016

Professor Emma Master receives grant from Genome Canada’s Large Scale Applied Research Projects program

Dr. Lewis Reis (IBBME PhD 1T6, at left) and Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE) used their unique peptide-hydrogel biomaterial to heal chronic wounds up twice as quickly as commercially available products. (Credit: Marit Mitchell).

Skin cells ‘crawl’ together to heal wounds treated with unique hydrogel layer

December 14, 2016

Research team led by Milica Radisic uses their patented peptide to close non-healing chronic wounds caused by diabetes

Stephanie Gaglione (Year 4 ChemE) has been named a 2016 Rhodes Scholar. She plans to use the all-expenses scholarship to continue postgraduate study in engineering. She hopes one day to advance biomaterial platforms for vaccines and drug delivery as an academic. (Courtesy: Stephanie Gaglione)

U of T Engineering student earns Rhodes Scholarship

November 22, 2016

Chemical Engineering student Stephanie Gaglione, who loves to rock climb and canoe, wins scholarship to Oxford

Researchers Jeffrey Brook (left) and Greg Evans (ChemE) use an aerosol mass spectrometer to analyse particulate air pollution. They are leading CANUE, a new pan-Canadian research consortium that aims to connect detailed environmental data with public health data to study the effects of exposure on Canadians’ health. (Credit: Marit Mitchell).

New research consortium aims to build critical bridge between environmental and health data

November 22, 2016

Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) will study the role of environment in determining Canadians’ health

“The convergence of a healthy biking culture and few cars in the heart of the city is truly a breath of fresh air," says Kerolyn Shairsingh (ChemE PhD candidate) about Utrecht, where she has been on research exchange since October 2016. (Courtesy: Kerolyn Shairsingh).

ChemE PhD student finds breath of fresh air in the Netherlands

November 11, 2016

Exchange is part of University of Toronto’s first-ever tripartite research collaboration with Utrecht University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong

A rendering of a classroom at University of Toronto Schools, part of the U of T Engineering team proposal to compete at the Green Energy Challenge in Boston. (Courtesy: CECA/NECA U of T).

U of T Engineering student team competes at Green Energy Challenge finals

October 7, 2016

Students design energy saving lighting retrofit for downtown Toronto high school

University Professor Molly Shoichet (IBBME, ChemE), holds the hyaluronic acid (HA)-based injectable hydrogel developed in her lab that helps transplanted stem cells survive, integrate and repair damaged tissue in the brain and eye. Shoichet has been named the recipient of the 2016 Till & McCulloch Award. (Credit: Roberta Baker).

Molly Shoichet awarded 2016 Till & McCulloch Award

October 6, 2016

Pioneering stem-cell researcher developed hydrogel platform to deliver stem cells to brain and eyes, restoring vision by 15 per cent

Olga Misic (Year 2 ChemE) holds an organic photovoltaic device she worked on this summer in in the labs of Professor Tim Bender (ChemE). Her position was supported in part by one of U of T Engineering’s new First-Year Summer Research Fellowships.

First-year students gain research experience with Summer Research Fellowships

September 2, 2016

Students tackle ambitious problems in fields from robotics to sustainable energy with support of funding from First-Year Office

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