Posts Tagged: research

U of T Researchers Invent New Tissue Engineering Tool

Imagine a machine that makes layered, substantial patches of engineered tissue – tissue that could be used as grafts for burn victims or vascular patches. If this sounds like science fiction, researchers at the University of Toronto say it’s a…

Chemical Engineering Professor Awarded Substantial NSERC Grant

The Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded  a $1.876 million Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Grant to Chemical Engineering Professor Honghi Tran and his team. The announcement was made June 19. The funds from the grant will…

IBBME PhD Student Finalist in TED Talks’ 2013 Talent Search

With just a few words, Padina Pezeshki captivated her audience: “Here’s a woman suffering from advanced breast cancer,” she said simply, “the kind that has spread to her bones. The kind that has fractured her spine.” But Pezeshki, a PhD candidate at…

A Heart Beat Above the Competition

IBBME PhD candidates Mark Blaser and Lewis Reis had a lot to celebrate after attending the CIHR Canadian Student Health Research Forum (CSHRF), a conference which only the top 5% of doctoral students in Canada are invited to attend. Blaser and Reis were awarded…

MSE PhD Student Wins Top Research Poster Prize

Kitty Kumar, a Materials Science & Engineering PhD Candidate, recently beat out more than 900 competitors to receive the Best Poster Award at the 38th annual IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC). The IEEE-PVSC, which was held on June 3–8 in Austin, Texas,…
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