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Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME)

Aaron Wheeler

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Lab-on-a-chip
  • Microfluidics

Office: 416-946-3864
Website
Email: aaron.wheeler@utoronto.ca
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Alison McGuigan

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Disease modelling
  • Drug screening platforms
  • Regenerative medicine
  • Tissue engineering

Office: 416-978-7552
Website
Email: alison.mcguigan@utoronto.ca
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Andreas Mandelis

Professor

Andreas Mandelis

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomedical photoacoustics and imaging
  • Biosensors and diagnostic instrumentation
  • Biothermophotonic cancer imaging instrumentation
  • Diffusion-wave physics and technologies
  • Laser thermal-wave quality control methods for steel industry and hardness case depth non-destructive testing
  • Non-destructive diagnostics for electronic devices
  • Non-destructive evaluation/testing/imaging
  • Photovoltaics

Office: 416-978-5106
Languages: Greek, French
Website
Email: mandelis@mie.utoronto.ca
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Axel Guenther

Professor

Axel Guenther

Areas of Expertise

  • 3D bioprinting
  • Biofabrication
  • Bioprinting
  • Blood vessels on chips
  • Fluid flow and transport at small length scales
  • Fluidic microprocessors
  • Micro and nanofabrication
  • Micro-reactors
  • Micro/Nanofabrication
  • Microfluidics
  • Microreactors
  • Organized soft materials
  • Soft Materials

Office: 416-978-1282
Mobile: 647-409-8363
Languages: German
Website
Email: guenther@mie.utoronto.ca
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Brendan Frey

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Brendan Frey

Areas of Expertise

  • Autoimmune diseases
  • Bayesian networks
  • Breast cancer
  • Colorectal cancer
  • Computational biology
  • Computational medicine
  • deep learning
  • Exome
  • Genetics of autism spectrum disorder
  • Genetics of cancer
  • Genome
  • Genomics
  • Machine learning
  • Neural networks
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Parkinson's
  • spinal muscular atrophy
  • Whole genome sequence

Office: N/A
Website
Email: frey@psi.toronto.edu
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Christopher Yip

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biophysics
  • Microscopy
  • Molecular self-assembly
  • Protein-protein interactions

Office: (416) 978-7853
Home: 416-544-0452
Website
Email: christopher.yip@utoronto.ca
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Cindi Morshead

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Neural stem cells
  • Regenerative medicine

Office: N/A
Mobile: (416) 946-5575
Website
Email: cindi.morshead@utoronto.ca
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Edmond Young

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • biofluid mechanics
  • biomedical engineering
  • cancer.
  • Cell biology
  • cell imaging and microscopy
  • cellular microenvironments
  • Microfabrication
  • Microfluidics
  • Microfluidics for biology
  • microscale cell-based systems

Office: 416-978-1521
Mobile: 647-823-8809
Languages: Chinese (Cantonese)
Website
Email: edmond.young@utoronto.ca
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Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cancer imaging
  • Cardiovascular imaging
  • Early cancer detection and diagnosis
  • Image-guided regenerative and stem cell therapy
  • Molecular and cellular imaging
  • Monitoring vascularization and regeneration in tissue-engineered systems
  • MR contrast agents
  • New contrast agents for vascular and cellular imaging and targeting
  • Non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for cellular, molecular, and physiological imaging
  • Physiological microvascular imaging
  • Quantitative MR imaging
  • Quantitative MRI methods to measure microvascular function
  • tissue regeneration and engineering

Office: (416) 978-4095
Languages: Chinese (Cantonese)
Website
Email: hailing.cheng@utoronto.ca
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Hani Naguib

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced manufacturing
  • Advanced manufacturing, micro and nano fabrication, self assembly, additive manufacturing
  • Biomaterials
  • Energy management materials
  • Energy management materials, triboelectrics, supercapacitors, and flexible batteries
  • Polymers and composites
  • Smart Materials
  • Smart materials, multifunctional composites, meta materials, bio-based materials
  • Smart skins
  • Smart skins, sensors and actuators, soft robotics, e-textiles and wearables
  • Stimuli Responsive Polymers

Office: 416.978.7054
Languages: French
Website
Email: naguib@mie.utoronto.ca
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Jane Aubin

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Arthritis
  • Mesenchymal stem cells
  • Musculoskeletal health
  • Osteoporosis
  • Regulation of bone formation
  • Skeletal development

Office: 613-668-4219
Languages: English
Website
Email: jane.aubin@utoronto.ca
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Michael Sefton

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomaterials
  • Tissue engineering

Office: 416-978-3088
Website
Email: michael.sefton@utoronto.ca
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Milica Radisic

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomaterials
  • Bioreactors
  • Cardiovascular tissue engineering
  • Heart-on-a-chip
  • Microphysiological systems
  • Organ-on-a-chip engineering
  • Tissue engineering
  • Vasculature-on-a-chip

Office: (416) 946-5295
Mobile: (416) 767-1442
Website
Email: m.radisic@utoronto.ca
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Molly S Shoichet

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 3D cell culture
  • Drug delivery
  • Hydrogels
  • Polymers for applications in medicine
  • Regenerative medicine
  • Spinal cord injury repair
  • Stem cell stimulation
  • Stem cell transplantation
  • Targeted delivery in cancer
  • Tissue engineering
  • Traumatic injury to the brain (including stroke)

Office: 416-978-1460
Languages: French
Website
Email: molly.shoichet@utoronto.ca
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Paul Santerre

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomaterials
  • Commercialization
  • Implantable medical devices
  • Tissue engineering

Office: (416) 946-8158
Languages: French
Website
Email: paul.santerre@dentistry.utoronto.ca
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Paul Yoo

Associate Professor

Paul Yoo

Areas of Expertise

  • Electrical neuromodulation
  • Neural prosthesis
  • Obstructive sleep apnea
  • Overactive bladder
  • Vagus nerve stimulation therapy

Office: (416) 978-7326
Website
Email: paul.yoo@utoronto.ca
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Piero Triverio

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cardiovascular simulations
  • Computer aided design
  • Computer simulations
  • Electromagnetics
  • Interference
  • Personalized medicine
  • Quantum computing, information and cryptography

Office: (416) 978-0562
Languages: Italian,Spanish; Castilian
Website
Email: piero.triverio@utoronto.ca
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Yu Sun

Professor

Yu Sun

Areas of Expertise

  • Automation
  • Instrumentation
  • Manufacturing robotics
  • Medical robotics
  • Micro-nano devices
  • Micro-nano manipulation
  • Robotic cell surgery
  • Robotics

Office: 416-946-0549
Languages: Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: sun@mie.utoronto.ca
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