Posts Tagged: bioengineering
Professor Tom Chau (EngSci 9T2) of the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering has been chosen as one of 25 Transformational Canadians. The Globe and Mail’s Transformational Canadians program celebrates 25 living citizens who have made a difference by immeasurably…
Developing products that will enable treatments for devastating health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer and spinal cord injuries is the focus of a major University of Toronto-hosted research and commercialization initiative that has been awarded $15 million by…
The science fiction of melding man and machine has played out for decades onscreen, from The Six Million Dollar Man to The Terminator. But the bionic hybrid age may well be flickering to life – real life – in the Calgary lab where…
In the midst of a blistering heat wave, most Torontonians aren’t thinking much about frigid temperatures, ice and winter spills. But in a special laboratory at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, walking is a perilous — and chilly — experience for…
University of Toronto spinoff company Interface Biologics Inc. has announced the signing of an evaluation and exclusive license option agreement with Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s largest integrated provider of dialysis products and services. Under the agreement, Fresenius Medical Care…
Professor Axel Guenther (MIE, IBBME) and colleagues have developed a microfluidic platform on which fragile blood vessels can be fixed, allowing the factors that promote and sustain cardiovascular diseases to be studied. Microvascular structure and function are currently studied using either an…
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