February 2014

February 21st, 2014 by laschinger

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.

December 2013

February 20th, 2014 by laschinger

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

June 2013

June 6th, 2013 by radisic

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.

May 2013

May 29th, 2013 by radisic

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.

Feb 2013

March 2nd, 2013 by radisic

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!

Jan 2013

March 2nd, 2013 by radisic

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.

December 2012

December 4th, 2012 by radisic

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.

Kang K, Sun L, Xiao Y, Li SH, Wu J, Guo J, Jiang SL, Yang L, Yau TM, Weisel RD, Radisic M, Li RK.

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Nov 20;60(21):2237-49. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.08.985.

PMID: 23153846

 

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.

Chiu LL, Montgomery M, Liang Y, Liu H, Radisic M.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Nov 26.

 

October 2012

September 14th, 2012 by radisic

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.

Tandon V, Zhang B, Radisic M, Murthy SK.

Biotechnol Adv. 2012 Aug 24.

Hydrogel Substrate Stiffness and Topography Interact to Induce Contact Guidance in Cardiac Fibroblasts.

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

Macromol Biosci. 2012 Aug 27. doi: 10.1002/mabi.201200042.

Biofabrication enables efficient interrogation and optimization of sequential culture of endothelial cells, fibroblasts and cardiomyocytes for formation of vascular cords in cardiac tissue engineering.

Iyer RK, Chiu LL, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Radisic M.

Biofabrication. 2012 Sep;4(3):035002.

Controlled release of thymosin β4 from injected collagen-chitosan hydrogels promotes angiogenesis and prevents tissue loss after myocardial infarction.

Chiu LL, Reis LA, Momen A, Radisic M.

Regen Med. 2012 Jul;7(4):523-33.

Mosaic hydrogels: one-step formation of multiscale soft materials.

Leng L, McAllister A, Zhang B, Radisic M, Günther A.

Adv Mater. 2012 Jul 17;24(27):3650-8. doi: 10.1002/adma.201201442. Epub 2012 Jun 20.

September 2012

September 12th, 2012 by radisic

Congratulations to our students for starting the school year with new awards:

Eric Pahnke Match Scholarship
Jason Miklas  CIHR Masters Award
Miles Montgomery OGS
Lewis Reis NSERC PGS-D
Yun Xiao Chinese Government Scholarship
Boyang Zhang Heart and Stroke Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence Studentship
Yumi Zhao QEII/OGSST

Congratulation to Prof. Radisic for winning McLean Award !

http://www.engineering.utoronto.ca/About/Engineering_in_the_News/Two_U_of_T_Engineering_Professors_Win_the_2012_McLean_Award.htm

August 2012

August 1st, 2012 by radisic

Post-doc/Research Associate

Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering

University of Toronto

 

We are looking for a motivated and entrepreneurial Post-doctoral/Research Associate with to work on an NSERC I2I funded project focused on the development of a device for microfluidic separation of cardiomyocytes.  The successful candidate should have experience with microfluidics and mammalian cell culture. There will be an opportunity to get involved in technology transfer activates, thus entrepreneurial spirit is desired. The successful candidate will join a team of 11 graduate students, 2 post-docs and 1 research associate all working on biomaterials and devices for cardiovascular regenerations.  Please send CV to:

 

Milica Radisic, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in Functional Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering (Tier 2)
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Heart & Stroke/Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence
University of Toronto
Affiliated Scientist
Toronto General Research Institute

 

164 College St,  Rm.407
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 3G9
m.radisic@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416-946-5295
Fax: 416-978-4317
http://www.labs.chem-eng.utoronto.ca/radisic/