While most people are sheltering at home, for a team led by Professor Warren Chan it’s business as usual as they continue...
A U of T Engineering spinoff company has donated its entire stock of skin-care product to health-care workers fighting the...
U of T Engineering graduate students Kramay Patel (IBBME MD/PhD candidate) and Chaim Katz (IBBME PhD candidate) are temporarily trading in their electrodes and amplifiers for sewing machines and cotton threads. They’ve launched Stitch4Corona,...
Two weeks ago they were making light panels. Today they’re sourcing medical equipment. The COVID-19 outbreak has led to reports of shortages of life-saving personal protective equipment (PPE) for front-line health workers, including in...
Testing for viruses is not a new science, but the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the bottlenecks in established methods. Now,...
U of T Engineering’s first-ever Faculty-wide research conference is organized by members of the Graduate Engineering Council of Students as well as faculty. (Photo courtesy of Samantha Cheung)
Improving hand hygiene (HH) is one of the most effective solution to reduce COVID-19 from spreading in hospitals and nursing...
Dr. Cindy Yip is currently a Global Project Leader in Immunology and Heamatology at the Global Rare Disease division of...
A U of T Engineering team has created a simple, scalable solution to remotely monitor the vital signs of COVID-19...
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines are being deployed and administered around the world — with vaccine development, manufacturing...
In March of 2020, I started the Stitch4Corona initiative: a community-based initiative which provided face masks to the Greater Toronto Area’s (GTA)...
In order for a COVID-19 vaccine and antiviral drugs to be developed, scientists first need to understand why this virus...