Transforming Human Health: Activating brain and muscle tissue to self-repair
Research team’s ongoing work on using stem cells to encourage brain and muscle to self-repair has celebrated successes
Transforming Human Health: Better outcomes in treating blindness
An interdisciplinary team of scientists, funded by Medicine by Design, aims to use retinal stem cells to restore vision.
Medicine by Design-funded researchers develop a new tool for scooping contents of individual cells from their local environment
Scientists can now select individual cells from their local environment & study their molecular contents. The new tool will enable a deeper study of stem cells and other rare cell types for diagnostics & therapy.
Transforming Human Health: Using stem cells to prevent heart failure
Medicine by Design-funded research team says the new treatment approach is not far from clinical trials. This is one of the ways Medicine by Design is transforming human health.
Medicine by Design invests $1 million to advance bold new ideas in regenerative medicine
Seven funded projects poised to impact many diseases including cystic fibrosis, ALS and vision loss.
Meet Medicine by Design’s 2020 Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award winners
Research to impact cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, aneurysm and more.
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 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.
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