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.
Medicine by Design and OIRM invest $1.2 million in technologies and research to advance innovation in regenerative medicine
Twelve targeted projects and two post-doctoral fellowships that are expanding the frontiers of stem cell research will share $1.2 million in funding thanks to programs supported jointly by the University of Toronto’s Medicine by Design initiative and the Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
U of T research helps pave the way for an off-the-shelf supply of cells for immunotherapy
Researchers from Peter Zandstra's lab have developed new technologies that clear key barriers to developing a renewable source of cells for therapies.