EMHSeed

Medicine by Design funds projects that align with its research priorities through the EMHSeed program. EMHSeed supports pairs of co-principal investigators — one from the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering and and one from the Faculty of Medicine/a hospital research institute — to build collaborative projects that advance the health sciences.

2020 EMHSeed Fund

  • A strategy to suppress graft-induced arrhythmias arising from stem cell derived cardiomyocytes by redesigning Cx43 gap junction proteins
    Co-Investigators: Dr. Michael Laflamme (University Health Network) and Michael Garton (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto)

2019 EMHSeed Fund

  • Personalized surgery for aortic aneurysms
    Co-Investigators: Dr. Jennifer Chung (University Health Network) and Craig Simmons (Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto)

2017 EMHSeed Fund

  • Challenging the dogma: Cell size regulation in embryonic wound repair
    Co-Investigators: Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez (Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto) and Ran Kafri (Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, and SickKids)

2016 EMHSeed Fund

  • Sensing oxygen radical generation on a chip
    Co-Investigators: Jonathan Rocheleau (Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto) and Michael Wheeler (Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, and University Health Network)
  • Cell delivery using microfluidic, non-adhesive wound dressings for burn patients
    Co-Investigators: Benjamin Hatton (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto), Marc Jeschke (Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre) and Saeid Amini Nik (Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Catalyst Awards

Medicine by Design funds projects that align with its research priorities through the Data Sciences Institute (DSI) Catalyst Grant program. DSI Catalyst Grant funds multidisciplinary research teams focused on the development of new data science methodology or the innovative use of data science to address questions of major societal importance.

2022 Catalyst  Grants

  • Bioimage informatics for exploring heterogeneous cell communities and accelerating the development of effective cancer treatments
    Joshua Milstein (Chemical and Physical Sciences, UTM); Alison McGuigan (Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry & Biomedical Engineering, UofT); Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez (Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry &Biomedical Engineering, UofT)
  • Developing rigorous statistical methods for multimodal single-cell sequencing data analysis
    Zhaolei Zhang (Donnelly Centre/ Molecular Genetics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine); Dehan Kong (Statistical Sciences, Faculty of Arts & Science, UofT); Dennis Kim (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, UHN)