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Professor Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez (IBBME) and PhD student Teresa Zulueta-Coarasa led a study that has shed new light on how wounds repair without scars in fruit fly embryos. Their work could advance the way we treat wounds in humans. (Credit: Luke Ng).

U of T Engineering researchers uncover mechanism of scar-free wound healing in fruit fly embryos

Study published by Professor Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez sheds light on how a network of proteins drive a wound repair process that leaves no scars

From left: Jacqueline Fleisig, Cassandra Chanen and Zhengbang Zhou (all Year 1 EngSci) show their redesigned naloxone kit at the 2018 Praxis Showcase event, April 13, 2018 in the Great Hall of Hart House. (Credit: Laura Pedersen).

First-year students bring engineering solutions to Toronto communities

Praxis course challenges Engineering Science teams to work with local businesses and organizations to address persistent challenges

Professor Craig Simmons (MIE, IBBME) has been elected into the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) College of Fellows, one of the profession’s highest distinctions. (Photo: Neil Ta).

Craig Simmons elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

U of T professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering receives one of the highest international distinctions in the profession

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Purple Day: Meet U of T Engineering students researching new ways to understand epilepsy

Several teams of IBBME graduate students are working on solutions to improve treatments and quality of life for individuals facing the neurological disease

Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE) who holds the Canada Research Chair in Functional Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering, has been named a YWCA Woman of Distinction for 2018. (Photo: NSERC)

Professor Milica Radisic named a YWCA Toronto Woman of Distinction

Award honours those who work to improve the lives of women and girls in their community

Meghan Wright, a PhD student in the U of T Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME), spent six months at Harvard Medical School on a federal government scholarship where she learned a new microscopy technique that validated her research strategy. (Photo courtesy Meghan Wright)

Federal government scholarship helps U of T Engineering PhD student gain international research experience

Meghan Wright received a Canada Graduate Scholarship and Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement to spend six months at Harvard Medical School for research exchange

Lab workers wearing Nymi Bands

How U of T Engineering startup Nymi found an unexpected business niche

Founded by U of T Engineering researchers in 2011, Nymi uses people’s heartbeats as biometric identifiers to log them into iPhones, iPads — and now industrial equipment.

Professor Paul Santerre (Dentistry, IBBME), at left, has been named the Baxter Chair of Health Technology and Commercialization by the University Health Network. (Credit: Neil Ta).

Paul Santerre named Baxter Chair of Health Technology and Commercialization

Biomedical engineering professor receives UHN support to drive commercialization and entrepreneurship opportunities for students and hospital trainees

Professors Rita Kandel and Robert Pilliar (IBBME), at right, are working on a promising new treatment that could see diseased joints replaced with new tissue-engineered joints developed at U of T Engineering. (Credit: Jennifer Robinson)

New joints for arthritis sufferers among U of T Engineering research projects receiving Connaught Innovation Award support

The five funded projects address pressing challenges in fields from machine learning to micro-surgery