University Toronto Professor of Biochemical engineering Molly SHOICHET is the only Canadian of the 16 invited speakers to the 2010 ROCHE-NATURE MEDICINE Swiss conference on TRANSLATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE.
Dr. Molly Shoichet holds the NSERC Canada Research Chair in Tissue Engineering and is Professor of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Chemistry and Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. She is an expert in the study of Polymers for Regeneration which are materials that promote healing in the body. Dr. Shoichet’s laboratory has numerous patents (published and pending) on drug delivery and scaffold design. She has founded two spin-off companies from her laboratory. Before being recruited to the University of Toronto in 1995, Dr. Shoichet worked at CytoTherapeutics Inc. on encapsulated cell therapy. Dr. Shoichet is the recipient of such prestigious distinctions as NSERC’s Steacie Fellowship, CIHR’s Young Explorer’s Award (to the top 20 scientists under 40 in Canada), CSChE’s Syncrude Innovation Award, Canada’s Top 40 under 40 and the Royal Society of Canada’s Rutherford Memorial Award. Dr. Shoichet received her S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Chemistry (1987) and her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Polymer Science and Engineering (1992). She has published over 290 papers, patents and abstracts.
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