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"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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Please join me in congratulating Dr. Nitzan Letko-Khait on winning first place in the final pitch and closing session of the Mitacs Invention to Innovation (i2I) skills training, delivered by the Beedie School of Business from Simon Fraser University! Nitzan also recently won a PRiME post-doctoral fellowship.Beedie School of BusinessUniversity of Toronto,…
Read moreFellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Professor Molly Shoichet has been elected as a 2022 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for having demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the welfare of society. University of Toronto Engineering News
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
Read moreU of T Researchers Design New Hydrogel for more Targeted Cancer Treatments
Biomimetic 3D hyaluronan hydrogel enables culture of multiple cancer cell types and unbiased in vivo results. University of Toronto News
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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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; 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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“Affinity-controlled release of rod-derived cone viability factor enhances cone photoreceptor survival” Teal, C.J.; Ho, M.T.; Huo, L.; Harada, H.; Bahlmann, L.C.; Léveillard, T.; Monnier, P.P.; Shoichet, M.S. 2023, Acta Biomaterialia, 161: 37-49; doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2023.03.003 Publication
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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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