Welcome to the Shoichet Lab
"Our research program requires a cross disciplinary approach where aspects of engineering, chemistry, and biology are applied to the fields of Regenerative Medicine, Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery. We approach unsolved problems in medicine by creating a series of design criteria which we then use to formulate solutions."
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FEATURES
Feature of the Month
Olivia Roland joined the Shoichet Lab in the Summer of 2023. Congratulations to Olivia on winning best poster award at Queens University's Chemical Engineering Research Day, based on research done in our lab.
Read morePRiME Next-Generation Precision Medicine
Molly Shoichet joins PRiME as new scientific director for Precision Medicine Initiative PRiMEUniversity of Toronto News
Read moreAn Integrated Approach to Treating Blindness
A team of scientists led by Molly Shoichet and funded by Medicine by Design is working on a ground-breaking research project to restore vision using retinal stem cells. Medicine by Design
Read moreNew Strategy for Delivery of Therapeutic Proteins could Help Treat Degenerative Eye Diseases
Finding treasures in the trash: with directed evolution, we find affibody binding partners that are highly specific with moderate affinity allowing simultaneous release of multiple factors. University of Toronto Engineering News
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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“Engineered in vitro tumour model recapitulates molecular signatures of invasion in glioblastoma” Smith LJ; Skirzynska A; Chin AA; Arnold AE; Kushida M; Dirks P; Shoichet MS. 2023 ACS Materials AU (special issue), 3: 514-527; doi: 10.1021/acsmaterialsau.3c00029 Publication
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“Hydrogel assisted photoreceptor delivery inhibits material transfer” Ho MT; Ortin-Martinez A; Yan NE; Comanita L; Gurdita A; Pham Truong V; Cui H; Wallace VA; Shoichet MS. 2023 , Biomaterials, 298. 122140: 1-11; doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2023.122140 Publication
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“Targeting tumour-associated macrophages in hodgkin lymphoma using engineered extracellular matrix-mimicking cryogels” Bahlmann LC; Xue C; Chin AA; Lu J; Thériault B; Uehling D; Yerofeyeva Y; Peters R; Liu K; Chen J; Martel AL; Yaffe M; Al-awar R; Goswami RS; Ylanko J; Andrews DW; Kuruvilla J; Laister RC; Shoichet MS. 2023…
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“Protein Release by Controlled Desorption from Transiently Cationic Nanoparticles” Cheung TH; Xue A; Kurtz DA; Shoichet MS. 2023 , ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (special issue), in press xx1-x14; doi: doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c19877 Publication
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