Human Health
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- Brain-Machine Interfacing
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- Disease Modeling & Therapeutics
- Health-care Engineering
- Heart Research
- Next-generation Medical Devices
- Regenerative Medicine
- Synthetic Biology
Medicine by Design undertakes transformative research in regenerative medicine and cell therapy.
Translational Biology and Engineering Program
TBEP drives research at the interface of engineering and medicine. With a roster of multidisciplinary investigators, researchers develop strategies that will repair or regenerate heart muscle.
Centre for Healthcare Engineering
CHE is a leader in interdisciplinary research and education in healthcare engineering. Its research directly impacts healthcare organizations and partners in practice.
Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosol Research
SOCAAR is a world-class centre for environmental research committed to innovation in producing a broad, trans-disciplinary and actionable understanding of the origins, characteristics, environmental impact, and human health consequences of atmospheric aerosols.
Study Human Health at U of T Engineering
The Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) — a multidisciplinary research community of engineering, medicine and dentistry investigators — offers research-based graduate programs at both the Master’s and Doctoral levels, as well as a Master of Health Science (MHSc) in Clinical Engineering and a Master of Engineering (MEng) that focuses on the design of biomedical devices. At the undergraduate level, engineering students can minor in Biomedical Engineering or Bioengineering, and Engineering Science students can major in Biomedical Systems Engineering.
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U of T Engineering researchers have grown a small-scale model of a human left heart ventricle in the lab. The bioartificial tissue construct is made with living heart cells and beats strongly enough to pump fluid inside a bioreactor.
In the human heart, the left ventricle is the one that pumps freshly oxygenated blood into the aorta, and from there into the rest of the body. The new lab-grown model could offer researchers a new way to study a wide range of heart diseases and conditions, as well as to test out potential therapies.
“With our model, we can measure ejection volume — how much fluid gets pushed out each time the ventricle contracts — as well as the pressure of that fluid,” says Sargol Okhovatian (BME PhD candidate)