Medicine by Design researchers enlist tiny biomagnets for faster drug discovery
A new platform brings together genome editing with magnetic cell sorting to reveal new drug targets for cancer and regenerative medicine
A diabetes drug promotes brain repair — but only in females, U of T study shows
Accounting for sex differences could be key for the development of better treatments as drug shows promise for brain repair in females only
Toronto investigators part of international team receiving $4-million (U.S.) award from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The project, part of the Human Cell Atlas, seeks to build a more complete map of the human liver and is a “direct extension” of the work the Toronto team has already done with support from Medicine by Design
Technion professor to become first Medicine by Design Scholar in Residence
Professor Shulamit Levenberg will serve as Medicine by Design’s first Scholar in Residence from July 15 to August 15, 2019.
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
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.
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 video highlights importance of collaboration and working across disciplines in regenerative medicine
Hear from some of the investigators who make up the Medicine by Design community
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.
Engineered stem cell platform gives new insights into beginnings of human development
Medicine by Design-funded research could help answer fundamental biological questions and advance efforts to make organ-like structures
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.