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Medicine by Design-funded researchers develop cell injection technique that could help reverse vision loss

The technique could point the way toward new treatments with the potential to reverse forms of vision loss that are currently incurable.

By |2021-06-02T16:09:58-04:00August 19th, 2020|Categories: News, Research Publication|Tags: , , , , |

Critical planning for regenerative medicine therapies needs to happen now to ensure smooth adoption into health system, paper urges

Data generation, evidence of clinical effectiveness, cost and social values among the key considerations

By |2021-06-02T16:10:36-04:00August 13th, 2020|Categories: News, Research Publication|Tags: , , , , , , |

Panel of Canadian regenerative medicine leaders tackle translation and commercialization challenges in panel discussion

How do trainees get started on a path toward developing a product or starting a company? What steps do researchers need to take to move their regenerative medicine discoveries from the lab toward clinical impact? These are just some of the questions an expert panel tackled on July 30 at a virtual event titled Translating Research to Impact – Leveraging Our Ecosystem.

By |2020-12-03T10:57:25-05:00August 13th, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , |

U of T and SickKids researchers demonstrate drug stimulation of neural stem cell repair leads to promising impact on treatment of childhood brain injury in survivors of brain cancer

Cross-species study shows that Type 2 diabetes drug metformin could change the way childhood brain injury is treated

Medicine by Design-funded team uses stem cells to grow functional blood vessel cells found in the liver

Discovery to provide insights into liver development and disease progression

Researchers delay onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in laboratory models

A team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Toronto has delayed the onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in mice. They are cautiously optimistic that this research, which was funded in part by a Medicine by Design 2018 New Ideas Award, combined with other clinical advances, points to a potential treatment for ALS in humans.

By |2021-06-02T16:12:20-04:00April 22nd, 2020|Categories: News, Research Publication|Tags: , , , |

Genome editing just got more versatile thanks to a new technology developed by Medicine by Design-funded investigators at U of T

Scientists can now edit multiple sites in the genome at the same time to learn how different DNA stretches co-operate in health and disease.

By |2021-06-02T16:12:57-04:00March 16th, 2020|Categories: News, Research Publication|

Medicine by Design announces four new team projects

Medicine by Design is expanding its regenerative medicine research portfolio with the addition of four multi-disciplinary, multi-institution projects. “These team projects build on Medicine by Design’s successes over its first three years and will strengthen the University of Toronto and its affiliated hospitals as a global centre for regenerative medicine,” said Michael Sefton, executive director of Medicine by Design.

By |2020-03-04T08:52:07-05:00February 28th, 2020|Categories: Awards, News, Team Projects|Tags: , , , , |

Medicine by Design-Funded Investigators Win Inaugural Canada-UK Funding to Develop AI Microrobots for Brain Surgery and Cell Manipulation

Tiny artificial intelligence (AI)-controlled robots could in the future be tasked with finding and capturing rare stem cells from brain tissue for therapy. While this type of microsurgery can take years to develop, Cindi Morshead and Aaron Wheeler have received a funding boost to make it happen.

By |2022-04-12T18:30:59-04:00February 27th, 2020|Categories: News|

Innovation and science minister lauds Medicine by Design on regenerative medicine advances

'Your research will have a transformational impact on how we treat many common diseases, such as stroke, diabetes and liver failure, creating better health outcomes for all Canadians,' Bains tells annual symposium

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