Congratulation to Dr. Milica Radisic  is presented with an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada.  Only six Steacie Fellowships are offered by NSERC each year.

For more detailed coverage, click  here!

Ride for Heart

This is a great opportunity to get outside and breathe some fresh air while supporting a great cause. Registration for the event is only $35 until March 1st and will increase after that.

Come and support Heart&Stroke, click here! Click “Join a Group” and then put “Mighty Myocytes” in as the name.

Miles Montgomery meets The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada at a private lunch to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Massey College.

New biowire technology matures human cardiomyocytes

Congratulations to Sara, Jason, Yun Boyang, Anne, and Nimalan on their new publication
in Nature Methods!

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmeth.2524.html

IBBME features contest video by Aric and Miles.

Check out our lab video made by Miles and Aric:

Please also help donate to our lab fundraiser for the 2013 ride for heart event!

Congratulation to Nimalan Thavandiran, Boyang Zhang, and  Yun Xiao for winning the Ontario on a Chip Poster and Oral Award.

Congratulation to Milica Radisic for receiving Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal! Milica Radisic is among the 37 professional engineers across Canada to receive the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal!

Check out the news coverage below:

http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1122071/37-professional-engineers-to-receive-the-queen-elizabeth-ii-diamond-jubilee-medal

Congratulation to Miles and Boyang, both from Milica Raidisic’s lab, for receiving the Irving O Shoichet scholarship. Miles and Boyang are the only two recipients of this scholarship for the year 2013!

Congratulation to Thavandiran N, Nunes SS, Xiao Y, Radisic M for their publication on Stem Cell Res Ther

Topological and electrical control of cardiac differentiation and assembly.

Congratulation to Martin C, Sofla A, Zhang B, Nunes SS, Radisic M for their publication on Int J Artif Organs

Fusible core molding for the fabrication of branched, perfusable, three-dimensional microvessels for vascular tissue engineering.

Congratulation to Mo Yu (Lara) Fu for being one of the six University of Toronto students have been selected as part of The Next 36, the annual program aimed at promoting Canadian entrepreneurship among undergraduate youth.

http://www.news.utoronto.ca/u-t-students-are-six-next-36

Congratulation to Kang K, Sun L, Xiao Y, Li SH, Wu J, Guo J, Jiang SL, Yang L, Yau TM, Weisel RD, Radisic M, Li RK for their article on J Am Coll Cardiol.

Aged human cells rejuvenated by cytokine enhancement of biomaterials for surgical ventricular restoration.

Congratulation to Chiu LL, Montgomery M, Liang Y, Liu H, Radisic M. for their article on PNAS

Perfusable branching microvessel bed for vascularization of engineered tissues.

Congratulation to Al-Haque S, Miklas JW, Feric N, Chiu LL, Chen WL, Simmons CA, Radisic M

for the cover article on Macromolecular Bioscience!

Check  out our recent publications:

Generation of tissue constructs for cardiovascular regenerative medicine: From cell procurement to scaffold design.