Professor at University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair, Senior Scientist-Toronto General Research Institute, Executive Editor-ACS Biomaterials Sci & Eng
Honored to become Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Organ-on-a-Chip Engineering and thankful to
@CRC_CRC
for continued support after 10 yrs of Tier 2 support for Functional Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering
Congratulations to CRAFT co-lead Milica Radisic
@milicaruoft
@UHN
@bme_uoft
for being awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Organ-on-a-Chip Engineering. 😃👏👏👏🎉Check out her CRC research profile:
My grants still get rejected with this: Why do you need heart-on-a-chip when you have animal models? B/c their proteome is more similar to the human diseased heart tissue, as we just published in Nature Biomedical Engineering
@erika_ywang
Full paper here
Honored to be recognized with a Fellowship in National Academy of Inventors! Joining the ranks of the most prolific inventors, some Nobel Prize winners. I would like to thank the students and post-docs who made this possible. *All* of my inventions are joint/equally split
Dr. Milica Radisic has been elected as a 2023 Fellow of US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), this achievement underscores her exceptional contributions to advancing research and positively impacting real-world applications:
Want to "marry" organoids and organ-on-a-chip? We just published in Nature Protocols details on how to build inVADE and AngioTube systems in house using very simple equipment
@lockedavhuy
@bzhang7
@NatureProtocols
@bme_uoft
Happy to announce that few months ago I became an Executive Editor of
@ACSBiomaterials
, with the journal from the very start and happy to see our IF going up. Consider submitting a paper
@ACSPublications
The one and only Bob Langer. Incredibly fortunate to be Bob's student ~25 yrs ago
@MITChemE
Thank you Bob for the vision, mentorship and the best advice to think BIG! Great to be back for a talk.
So proud of this work in Cell! TARA's foundational technology. Yimu pulled this off with 3 kids at home and 2 mat leaves! Amazing...I am blessed with fantastic students.
Congratulations to
#UofTEngineering
professor Milica Radisic on receiving a Humboldt Research Award that will help advance organ-on-a-chip technology
@TUDarmstadt
in Germany:
I would like to thank Canadian biomaterials community
@CanBiomatSoc
for putting me forward for the Fellow of the International Union of Biomat Socies (FBSE). Once in 4 yrs best biomat folks in the world are recognized with the Fellowship -next Korea
@2024wbcs
Dr. Milica Radisic
@milicaruoft
has been elected as a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE), a high honour bestowed by the global biomaterials community on exceptional scientists:
@UofTEngineering
I am traveling to Baltimore tomorrow morning to attend
@SFBiomaterials
annual meeting. Super excited about live conference and very honored and humbled to be recognized with an Award from Acta Biomaterialia
@ElsevierConnect
Award lecture Sat April 30th
@ChemEng_UofT
@bme_uoft
We are trying to move away from PDMS in our organ-on-a-chip devices. But what is a good alternative? Here are some ideas in our latest review paper
@ACSBiomaterials
Our August issue is live! The cover features a Technology article from
@milicaruoft
lab. The authors create patent, stable and perfusable microvasculature in cardiac tissue for organ-on-chip by integrating hiPSC-macrophages into their system.
Our vasculature-on-a-chip platform helped us find a peptide that solves the cytokine storm problem upon
#SARSCoV2
infection
#covid19
causing virus. Super excited about this. See below. Log scale 1000-fold reduction
I am excited to share our recent paper Cardiac tissue model of immune-induced dysfunction reveals the role of free mitochondrial DNA and the therapeutic effects of exosomes | Science Advances
@CRAFT_mfluidics
@bme_uoft
@ChemEng_UofT
@UofTEPIC
I am really excited to share our paper in Nature Reviews Bioengineering
@natrevbioeng
on the integration of
#organoids
into
#organ
-on-a-chip systems. This is the future of drug discovery and human disease modelling
Organoids and OoCs aim to improve drug testing and disease modelling, but each suffer from limitations.
@milicaruoft
discusses their integration to improve cellular hierarchy, structural fidelity, reproducibility, throughput, scale up and efficiency.
I really think that organs-on-a-chip can help us understand the effects of pollution from various sources on human tissues. That is the next big frontier for the field. Microplastics, nanoparticles ...
Pleased to share our latest advance in heart-on-a-chip, a device with 3D printed nanocomposite force sensors and embedded electrodes that are as soft and thin as hair, but durable
great collaboration with
@TravasSejdic
Cool approach to use gold NP loaded hydrogel to augment muscle rehab with electrical stimulation. I had the pleasure of writing expert opinion about it. Impressive work.
Hydrogel implant rehabilitates muscles through electrical stimulation
Dear
@JustinTrudeau
, Please help us lift our best and brightest students out of poverty. We will lose an entire generation of MASc and PhDs. With deepest gratitude, Milica Radisic FRSC FCEA
@UofT
A mosaic biomaterial patch from our lab for the heart with adhesive and non-adhesive domains enabled through new polymer synthesis. Sticks on the heart tissue like a band-aid. Congrats
@dawnbnnrmn
for getting your paper on the cover
@lockedavhuy
Presenting at Advanced 3D bioprinting workshop organized by amazing Shulamit Levenberg
@TechnionLive
with my dear friends
@shrikezhang
@BurdickLab
Josue Sznitman and a super cool public transport cable car from
@IsraelRail
stop to campus - unique way to travel for sure
*Hot off the press* Advances in cardiac tissue engineering and heart‐on‐a‐chip - Kieda - 2024 - Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A - Wiley Online Library
Organs-on-a-chip are really a perfect marriage of tissue engineering and microfluidics. See how these two fields gave rise to the newest OOAC devices. We discuss in the 40th Anniversary Issue of TIBTEC
@CellPressNews
Amazing day for the Radisic lab, 5 awards
@CRAFT_mfluidics
: Karl-1st Prize in TOeP student presentations, Mary 2nd & Ben 3rd Prize in Poster competition; Scott 1st & Katrina 2nd Prize in TOeP Business Competition.
@ChemEng_UofT
@bme_uoft
trainees. Congrats!
Big thanks to all my former and current trainees for enabling the work I presented yesterday
@TERMISAM
on bioengineering cardiac function
#TermisAM2022
Just to add- most impressive talk that
@shrikezhang
gave to our students in the organ-on-a-chip training program
@CRAFT_mfluidics
Thanks Shrike for taking time out of your busy schedule!
Honored to make an address on behalf of
#CRAFT
scientists at the announcement of the very first
#NRC
Collaboration Center. We worked for 1.5yrs to bring NRC to UofT. Big day for microfluidics. Feeling very thankful
@UofT
@uoftengineering
@uoftmedicine
@NRC_CNRC
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition is so important for the heart development and regeneration. Not just a bad thing in cancer. How can we control it? See our recent paper
Amazing news for my PhD student Anastasia Korolj! She just won Schmidt Fellowship, a major international honor and a major grant for further Post-doc. Congratulations! The only Canadian [institution] on the list. Amazing!!!
@ChemEng_UofT
@uoftengineering
@UofTEngDean
@UofT
Eric and Wendy Schmidt announce the 2021 Schmidt Science Fellows. 28 new Fellows will pursue interdisciplinary research in areas including climate, future pandemics, water and food security, and healthcare.
Read the full announcement here:
Santa came early to the Radisic lab! I guess we were really good this year. Wishing everyone a very joyous Holiday Season! Rest & relax with the closest ones. The entire world needs a break after a tough year. Off to a better 2021 (hopefully).
@dawnbnnrmn
@uoftengineering
Feels like I am at a wedding with family! Except that everyone here is a famous scientist. Celebrating the Science of Bob Langer in Boston
@khademh
@GVNlab
Wonderful collaboration with
@GVNlab
and a great team of students who wrote this review on consideration of sex differences in cardiac function and how to harness it for cardiac tissue engineering
@NatRevMater
Sex-related differences in health and disease are often overlooked in tissue engineering. In their new Review, Milica Radisic, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic and colleagues provide a design framework for sex-specific cardiac tissue models
@milicaruoft
@GVNlab
My grandmother died of COVID-19 induced heart failure- in this paper coming out in Science Advances today, we identified both the biomarker and a potential therapeutic for the condition using heart-on-a-chip. Thankful for the guidance, love and optimism
A team of researchers led by
@milicaruoft
has developed a heart-on-a-chip model to more accurately capture the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection and its associated immune response on heart inflammation and cardiac dysfunction.
Read more about their work:
We showed that standard cancer drugs don't work well in high fidelity models that combine pancreatic cancer organoids and organ-on-a-chip vasculature. Cancer hijacks fibroblasts to protect itself. Time for better drug discovery platforms?
@AdvSciNews
The
@DonnellyCentre
is home to a new self-driving lab (SDL) for human organ mimicry, led by Milica Radisic and Vuk Stambolic!
This is one of six SDLs launched by
@acceleration_c
at
@UofT
to speed up the discovery of materials and molecules.
Learn more 👉
Congrats to
#UofTEngineering
's
@milicaruoft
, who is among this year’s recipients of the
#Killam2020
Research Fellowship, which support outstanding scholars as they carry out their groundbreaking projects 👏:
Congrats Dr. Lu! A big day for Rick today. Awesome defense of his PhD thesis. Always so happy to see my PhD students grow and move to the next step - for Rick a PDF on AI to optimize LNPs for cancer supported by
@acceleration_c
fellowship. Congrats!
Honored to attend a reception with 🇩🇪President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, at a meeting with
@AvHStiftung
research fellows and families at Schloss Bellevue
Great collaboration with
@DavidJuncker
on the cover
@AdvSciNews
super neat way to easily and cheaply print pomac into very complex structures thanks
@NSERC_CRSNG
for funding our Strategic Grant
Our August issue is a special issue on microphysiological systems! Read about on-chip models of the blood-brain barrier (
@songihahn
), cardiac regeneration (
@GVNlab
@milicaruoft
), gut-kidney axis, intestine and liver (
@Jalili_Sasan
), and more
A glomerulus-on-a-chip constructed in a plastic platform & microfluidic spinning of topographical alginate fibers. Very rewarding collaboration with
@Tsinghua_Uni
@ACSCentSci
3D printing really speeds up fabrication of organ-on-a-chip devices Automated fabrication of a scalable heart-on-a-chip device by 3D print...
@CRAFT_mfluidics
@KeAiPublishing
@ZhaoYimu
Rick just published a neat review paper in Bioengineering & Translational Medicine
@WileyGlobal
on myocarditis and cardiac inflammation modelling using hearts-on-a-chip
@BioTM_Buzz
Is there a doctor in the house? Congratulations to our newest PhD - Dr. Dawn Bannerman passed her defense with flying colors. Yeah way to go Dawn!!!
@ChemEng_UofT