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Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE) and her team grow heart cells outside the body. The technology could help pharmaceutical companies detect negative side effects in drugs. It is being commercialized by TARA Biosystems, a New York City-based company co-founded by Radisic. (Photo: NSERC)

Lab-grown heart cells to improve drug safety

Jeffrey Siegel

The link between air quality and human health

Professor Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng (IBBME, ECE) researches ways to improve MRI scans, which could allow for earlier cancer detection or accelerate the development of personalized medicine. (Photo: Roberta Baker)

Smarter scans could detect cancer earlier

Professor Eric Diller (MIE) and his team build tiny robots that could eventually be used inside the human body to improve drug delivery, surgery and other medical procedures. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Tiny, swimming robots could improve surgery