News and Annoucements

Molly Shoichet Makes Chatelaine’s Women of the Year List

It was a big year for Canada: The federal election resulted in a new prime minister, the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games were a big success, women’s issues received major media coverage and Alanis Morissette updated the lyrics to “Ironic.” And at the centre of it all were strong, determined women including Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, IBBME). She was recently listed as one of 30 influential women in Chatelaine‘s Women of the Year list. See the full list.

NYC Startup Based on Milica Radisic’s Research

One of the most recent developments over the past year has been the presence of a number of early stage biotech investors trying to set up companies in New York. Tara Biosystems is one of those startups that hopes to take root in the city. Harris & Harris, a local biotech startup investor, seeded Tara Biosystems in 2014 based on work of two biomedical engineers one of them being Professor Milica Radisic (ChemE, IBBME). Read more.

How Scott Jolliffe Moulded Gowlings into an International Player

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP will go through a big change next year, and this will cap the remarkable career of the man responsible for the firm’s transformation, Scott Jolliffe (7T3). He recently stepped down as chief executive of Gowlings law firm, but he is neither leaving the practice of law nor stepping away from firm management. Jolliffe’s joining the board of the new international law firm he has helped create by leading Gowlings into a merger with U.K.-based Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co. Read full story.

SOCAAR Seminar on Wed, Jan 13 (3-4pm, WB407)

Scott Weichental from Health Canada's Air Health Effects Science Division will be giving a seminar on PM2.5 Oxidative Potential, Lung Cancer Mortality, and Acute Cardiorespiratory Outcomes in Ontario, Canada. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, January 13 from 3-4pm in WB407.

January 8, 2016

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Grad Office
Research Publications
Events

Grad Office

Research Publications

Fate of modular cardiac tissue constructs in a syngeneic rat model
Leung, B.M., Miyagi, Y., Li, R.-K., Sefton, M.V.
Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine 2015, 9 ( 11 ) pp. 1247 - 1258 .

Measurement and correlation of the solubility of rivaroxaban (form I) in binary mixtures of ethyl acetate with tetrahydrofuran, N,N-dimethylformamide, and N,N-dimethylacetamide from T = (278.15 to 318.15) K
Zhang, M., Fang, Z., Zhai, J., Mao, S., Zhang, L., Rohani, S., Lu, J.
Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 2016, 94 pp. 1 - 6.

Delivery strategies for treatment of age-related ocular diseases: From a biological understanding to biomaterial solutions
Delplace, V., Payne, S., Shoichet, M.
Journal of Controlled Release 2015, 219 pp. 652 - 668.

Diversity of hydrolases from hydrothermal vent sediments of the Levante Bay, Vulcano Island (Aeolian archipelago) identified by activity-based metagenomics and biochemical characterization of new esterases and an arabinopyranosidase
Placido, A., Hai, T., Ferrer, M., Chernikova, T.N., Distaso, M., Armstrong, D., Yakunin, A.F., Toshchakov, S.V., Yakimov, M.M., Kublanov, I.V., Golyshina, O.V., Pesole, G., Ceci, L.R., Golyshin, P.N.

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