How Medicine by Design researchers are tackling liver disease and shortage of transplant organs
Organ plays many vital roles, including cleaning blood, helping digest food and making essential proteins for the body.
2018 Medicine by Design Symposium highlights
Wrap-up and photo gallery from the third annual Medicine by Design symposium.
Medicine by Design researchers featured in Science story on reprogramming cells into neurons to treat brain injury
Cindi Morshead and Maryam Faiz talk about the work they presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
Regenerative Medicine Expo draws 240 high school students and teachers to U of T for day of hands-on learning
Highlights and photo gallery from the second annual event
Medicine by Design-funded researchers devise new strategy to improve the safety of cell therapies
Finding inspiration from an unlikely source, a team led by Andras Nagy at Sinai Health System has an answer for one of the most pressing questions in cell therapy: how to ensure its safety
How the first “map” of the human liver came together through a collaboration sown by Medicine by Design
Believed to be the first time a human organ has been charted at the single-cell level, the research illuminates the basic biology of the liver in ways that could eventually increase the success of transplant surgery and enable viable regenerative medicine treatments for liver disease.
“Summer camp for researchers” aims to accelerate regenerative medicine discoveries into new therapies
Medicine by Design workshop offers PhD candidates and post-doctoral fellows from around the world an opportunity to learn from experts in clinical translation and commercialization and explore Toronto's dynamic life sciences ecosystem
Medicine by Design and Creative Destruction Lab partner to accelerate the commercialization of world-class research in regenerative medicine
Organizations collaborating to launch a health-themed cohort at CDL-Toronto to help technical teams take their health innovations to market by providing access to accomplished mentors and investors in life sciences.
Medicine by Design teams advance regenerative medicine approaches to type 1 diabetes
Researchers seek to overcome lingering challenges and clear the way for improvements in management of the disease
Meet Medicine by Design’s 2018 Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award winners
Awards support high-calibre post-doctoral fellows at the University of Toronto and affiliated hospitals who have outstanding potential to become independent researchers in regenerative medicine
Medicine by Design awards $1 million to advance new ideas in regenerative medicine
Funded projects are investigating new approaches to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, skeletal muscle injuries, stroke and Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and improve the success of blood stem cell transplants
From designer microbes to stem cells, Medicine by Design researchers pioneer strategies to treat bowel disease
Diverse approaches aim to harness intestinal stem cells to boost the body’s natural healing ability and perhaps even grow replacement tissue in a dish
Medicine by Design researchers clear hurdles toward robust supply of stem cells for research and therapy
Paper identifies new combination of factors that allow scientists to grow stem cells in lab on much larger scale than previously possible
New scientific manager appointed
Céline Bauwens, PhD, joins Medicine by Design, effective April 23
Shedding light on the path from bench to bedside: Interview with Michael Laflamme
"Toronto really is a unique place to pursue regenerative medicine research."