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Begum Yilmaz, Katarina Poffley and Emre Yilmaz hold their payload at the Canadian Space Agency’s Timmins stratospheric balloon base.

START1 takes flight: U of T Engineering student team explores radiation risks in space

Aniss Zaoui

How a recent grad’s second PhD prepared him to develop next-generation sustainable materials

Yu Zou and team

New metal matrix composites — made with 3D printing — could lead to light, yet strong components for aerospace and other industries

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Nick Mitrousis is a recent PhD graduate from the lab of University Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, BME). Mitrousis and Shoichet have just published a paper that describes a new strategy for repairing eye damage caused by conditions such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or retinitis pigmentosa. (Photo: Mindy Ngyuen)

U of T Engineering researchers develop cell injection technique that could help reverse vision loss

Elias Khalil joins MIE as an assistant professor. His research interests are in artificial intelligence, with a focus on machine learning and discrete optimization.

MIE welcomes new faculty member Elias Khalil

Bipasha Goyal (Year 3 EngSci, Biomedical Option) conducts research on a protein that could fight vision loss by encouraging the growth of photoreceptor cells in the eye. She is one of the dozens of students presenting at this year’s Undergraduate Engineering Research Day, held online August 14, 2020. (Photo: Carter Teal)

‘A world of possibilities’: U of T Engineering undergraduate students host virtual summer research conference

Researchers in Professor Warren Chan’s (BME) lab. Ben Ouyang (second from top left) and team, under the supervision of Chan (top left), discovered the dose threshold that improves drug delivery to tumours. (Photo courtesy of Ben Ouyang)

How to get more cancer-fighting nanoparticles to where they are needed