Researchers develop first electrochemical platform for cell-free synthetic biology
'We think we can really accelerate the field and its capacity to improve lives'
Medicine by Design to accelerate regenerative medicine discovery and translation with new $20-million investment
Projects to advance stem cell and gene therapy, enhance understanding of how the body repairs itself, and generate new technologies that will propel the field for decades
Meet Medicine by Design’s 2019 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 invests $1.2 million in new ideas to advance regenerative medicine research and translation
Nine funded projects span synthetic biology, computational modelling, immunoengineering and organoids
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.
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
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
Researchers look for clues in big data to enlist stem cells to repair damaged brains
Neuroscience meets computer science in this Medicine by Design team project
Interdisciplinary research team tackles remaining hurdles to using stem cells to reverse heart failure
Medicine by Design-funded project aims to fast-track cardiac cell therapy to clinical trials
Medicine by Design researchers seek to make blood stem cell transplants available to more patients
Two multidisciplinary teams take different approaches to overcome compatibility hurdles.
Research team harnesses engineering, biology and medicine in effort to stimulate muscle to fix itself
Project explores whether a novel biomaterial scaffold can coax stem cells that are already present in the muscle to spring into action to heal traumatic injuries.
Multidisciplinary research teams target blindness and stroke damage using regenerative medicine
Read about three Medicine by Design-funded team projects that are unlocking the power of stem cells to better understand and treat neurological diseases.