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Please join me in congratulating Lia Huo on winning a first prize oral presentation award at the CIP-MD/PhD Symposium! We would also like to congratulate Nicole Blaine on winning the Professor Doug Reeve Engineering Leaders of Tomorrow Graduate Award from the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry!
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PRiME Next-Generation Precision Medicine
Molly Shoichet joins PRiME as new scientific director for Precision Medicine Initiative PRiMEUniversity of Toronto News
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An 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
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New 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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