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Learn more about the latest discoveries and innovations from the U of T Engineering community. Our researchers are developing new ways of capturing and storing clean energy, medical devices that can save and extend lives, smarter ways to design and build cities and much more.

U of T Engineering researchers are designing synthetic immune complexes using DNA nanotechnology

January 22, 2025

This work could advance the understanding of immune system responses and pave the way for improved vaccines and immunotherapies

Professor Minghan Xu stands in front of the U of T gates by the Lassonde Mining Building.

‘Life is what you make it’: Meet Professor Minghan Xu

January 9, 2025

Professor Xu has joined the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto as an assistant professor

Professor Javad Mostaghimi (MIE) is director of the Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies (CACT). He has been elected fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors. (photo by Daria Perevezentsev)

Professor Javad Mostaghimi elected to the U.S. National Academy of Inventors

December 20, 2024

Mostaghimi recognized for innovation in creating inventions that have made an impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society

Student-led startup Genuine Taste wins national competition with alternative meat innovation

December 16, 2024

Co-founded by CivMin PhD student Emily Farrar, Genuine Taste produces cultivated fat in bioreactors

Left to right: Professors Cindi Morshead and Hani Naguib led research to develop a flexible, biodegradable electrode capable of stimulating neural precursor cells (NPCs) in the brain. (photos courtesy of Professors Cindi Morshead and Hani Naguib)

U of T Engineering researchers develop biodegradable brain stimulation electrodes for neural repair

December 4, 2024

The work is led by Professors Cindi Morshead (Surgery, BME) and Hani Naguib (MSE, MIE)

Kazi is on the left, dressed in a black suit, shaking hands with Cowen on the right, also in a black suit. Both stand in front of a bookshelf, with a table in front of them and the agreements on the table.

U of T and Siemens Canada partner to transform energy grid

November 25, 2024

Strategic industry-academic collaboration aims to accelerate adoption of green energy technologies

From better batteries to cleaner fuels, new provincial support advances research projects across U of T Engineering

November 25, 2024

Five projects from the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have received support from the Ontario Research Fund

From left to right: Professor Philipp Maass from the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and SickKids Research Institute, Professor Samin Aref (MIE) and Milad Mokhtaridoost, a postdoctoral fellow in computational biology.

Interdisciplinary collaboration uses machine learning to uncover unknown patterns in genome organization

November 18, 2024

MIE professor Samin Aref is working with a research team led by Professor Philipp Maass

From left to right: a composite image of Professor Edmond Young and Sina Kheiri.

New microfluidic device reveals how the shape of a tumour can predict a cancer’s aggressiveness

November 14, 2024

ReSCUE platform also enables the formation, release and transfer of patient-derived tumoroids

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