| 2012-04-11 | Congratulations to Mark, who received a travel award from CIHR to attend the Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) Young Investigators Forum in Montreal from June 4-6, 2012. |
| 2012-04-05 | Congratulations to Mark, who was selected to attend the CIHR Canadian Student Health Research Forum (CSHRF) in Winnipeg, MB from June 12-14, 2012. The CSHRF provides a venue for health research trainees from across Canada to present their work, network and be recognized for the excellence of their contributions. More details are available here: http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/research_days/index.html. Mark was selected as one of the top 5% of doctoral students at the University of Toronto. |
| 2012-04-02 | Congrats to Michelle, who was recognized by the University of Toronto for her outstanding extra-curricular contributions to improving the university's community with a 2012 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award. |
| 2012-02-28 | Congratulations to Kristine, Cindy, Zahra, Xiaofan, and Jan, whose paper “The elastic properties of valve interstitial cells undergoing pathological differentiation” was published in Journal of Biomechanics. You can find the paper on the Publications page. |
| 2012-01-11 | Congratulations to Bogdan, who successfully defended his MASc thesis today! |
| 2011-12-13 | Congratulations to Aleks, Haijiao, and Richard, who were awarded Barbara and Frank Milligan Fellowships from the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering for 2011/12. |
| 2011-11-10 | Congratulations to Suthan, whose NSERC PGS was converted to a 3 year Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D)! |
| 2011-10-24 | Congratulations to Ruogang, whose paper “An improved texture correlation algorithm to measure substrate-cytoskeletal network strain transfer under large compressive strain” was published in the Journal of Biomechanics. You can find the paper on the Publications page. |
| 2011-10-18 | The review and agenda for research from the NIH National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Aortic Stenosis Working Group, of which Craig was a member, was published in Circulation. You can find the paper on the Publications page. |
| 2011-09-25 | Congratulations to Wing-Yee, whose paper “Osteocyte apoptosis regulates osteoclast precursor adhesion via osteocytic IL-6 secretion and endothelial ICAM-1 expression.” was accepted for publication in Bone. You can find the paper on the Publications page. |
| 2011-09-01 | Congratulations to Justin, who was awarded an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-M) for 2011-12. |
| 2011-09-01 | Congratulations to Noam, who was awarded an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-M) and a Mary H. Beatty Fellowship for 2011-2012! |
| 2011-09-01 | Congratulations to Agnes, who was awarded an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-M) for 2011-12. |
| 2011-08-30 | Congratulations to Aleks and Jenna who were awarded scholarships from the NSERC CREATE Program in Microfluidic Applications and Training in Cardiovascular Health (MATCH). |
| 2011-08-25 | Congratulations to Jenna, who was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II - Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology for 2011-12. |
| 2011-08-18 | Our undergraduate researchers showed exceptionally well at Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UnERD), with Meena, Michelle, Mike, Vanessa, and Xiaofan all doing outstanding presentations and earning high praise for their talks and posters. Xiaofan was awarded best oral presentation in his session, and Meena, Michelle, and Mike all were runners-up in their poster sessions. Congratulations! |
| 2011-08-12 | Congratulations to Jan, who succesfully defended his Ph.D. thesis today! |
| 2011-08-05 | Chris' review article is accepted for publication in Integrative Biology. This article explores and reviews the role microfabricated systems can play in understanding how mechanical components of the microenvironment drive biological function. You can see his publication here: Publications
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| 2011-08-05 | Krista's and Mark's review article published in the International Journal of Inflammation. This open access article is part of a special issue on cardiovascular inflammation. In the article, animal models of calcific aortic valve disease are critically reviewed. You can see their publication here: Publications |
| 2011-06-23 | Congratulations to Krista, who won a Doctoral Completion Award from the School of Graduate Studies. |
| 2011-06-10 | Congratulations to Kelly and Suthan, who won CMC Microsystems Best Poster Awards at the 2011 Ontario-on-a-Chip/MATCH Symposium. |
| 2011-06-05 | Congratulations to Team Heart Valve, who completed the 50 km Ride for Heart today. The Team, comprised this year of 16 lab members, friends, and family members, raised $4,685 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, by far the most we have raised to date. |
| 2011-05-13 | Congratulations to Aleks, who won the Young Investigator Award at the 2011 MIE Research Symposium for his talk on “The mechanical properties of diseased aortic valve tissue”. |
| 2011-05-04 | Congratulations to Suthan, who won *two* best poster awards at The 6th International Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology (MMB 2011) in Lucerne, Switzerland! Suthan's posters were on digital microfluidics for primary cell culture and a membrane microfluidic device to mimic the vascular microenvironment. |
| 2011-04-14 | Congratulations to Mark, who was awarded a CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS)-Doctoral Award! Mark's application was ranked 3rd of 941 applications in the competition. |
