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SensOR Medical Laboratories CEO Robert Brooks (MIE PhD 1T5) addresses a Health Innovation Hub, or H2i, event this week. (Photo: Chris Sorensen)

Move fast and break things? Not when you’re building a health-care startup

November 24, 2017

SensOR co-founder Robert Brooks offers advice at the launch of HealthEDGE Initiative from U of T’s Health Innovation Hub

Manmeet Maggu and Rahul Udasi, pictured here shortly after completing U of T's Creative Destruction Lab accelerator program, took home first prize in a Sunnybrook Hospital pitch competition. (Photo: Chris Sorensen)

U of T startup Trexo Robotics takes another step forward with children’s ‘Iron Man’ exoskeleton

November 24, 2017

Entrepreneurs win pitch competition at U of T’s Health Innovation Hub

Patients at an Ontario Long Term care facility use Abby, an interactive activity centre designed by industry partner Ambient Activity Technologies working with Professor Mark Chignell, Dr. Andrea Wilkinson, and other researchers at the Interactive Media Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. (Credit: Ambient Activity Technologies)

U of T Engineering researchers develop technologies to reduce problem behaviours in people with dementia

November 21, 2017

Research-industry partnership to premiere first products on December 7 at Baycrest Hospital in Toronto

Phil De Luna (MSE PhD candidate) is one of the lead authors of a new paper published in Nature Chemistry that reports a low-cost, highly efficient catalyst for chemical conversion of water into oxygen. The catalyst is part of an artificial photosynthesis system being developed at U of T Engineering. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Artificial photosynthesis gets big boost from new catalyst

November 20, 2017

U of T Engineering system takes inspiration from plants to convert electrical energy to chemical energy at 64 per cent efficiency, the highest yet reported for renewable carbon fuels

Professor David Sinton has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). (Photo: NSERC)

David Sinton elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

November 20, 2017

Award recognizes Sinton’s application of microfluidics to challenges in sustainable energy

University Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, IBBME), a world-leading researcher in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, has been appointed the first Chief Scientific Officer of Ontario. (Credit: Roberta Baker)

Molly Shoichet named Ontario’s first Chief Scientist

November 17, 2017

New position will advise government on science-based policy and champion high quality science in government and education

From left: UTEV’s Professor Peter Lehn, Dr. Theo Soong, and Professor Olivier Trescases (all ECE) at the Electric Mobility Canada Show with Havelaar’s electric pick-up truck, the Bison. (Credit: Sonja Persram).

Electric vehicle partnership earns $9-million investment

November 10, 2017

University of Toronto Electric Vehicle Research Centre (UTEV) receives major grants to advance R&D of sustainable transportation

Bailey Bernknopf was born with heart defects. She’s now researching a cure as a graduate student at U of T’s Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME). (Photo: Tyler Irving)

She was born with heart defects. Now she’s researching a cure

October 30, 2017

Bailey Bernknopf is one of 88 students joining U of T’s Insititute for Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering this fall

Members of U of T Engineering's AutoDrive team adjust the mounts for autonomous sensors on a donated Chevrolet Bolt. The team has until April to turn the electric vehicle into a self-driving vehicle. (Photo: Alex Lee)

AutoDrive: Student team gears up on self-driving electric vehicle challenge

October 30, 2017

Chevrolet Bolt to be made autonomous by U of T Engineering team

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