Dentistry

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Professor Paul Santerre began his career at the University in 1993 in the Faculty of Dentistry and is a member of the Centre for Biomaterials, where he has conducted research into biomaterials - molecules and polymers designed to interact with biological systems – and their applications. He became a core faculty member at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) in 1999 when this unit was merged with the Centre for Biomaterials, and has been IBBME’s Director since 2008.

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Brain imaging. It calls to mind massive MRI machines or CT scanners; a patient immobilized while the machine takes a scan of the brain.

What if you could go about your daily life while a machine you hardly noticed took images of your brain?

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On July 19, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research announced it will be funding the work of three research teams investigating bone health. The University of Toronto’s Dr. Michael Glogauer, Associate Professor with the Faculty of Dentistry, heads one of those teams. A clinician scientist whose post-doctoral work at Harvard focussed on neutrophils – white blood cells that help fight infection and inflammation - Glogauer spoke with U of T News about seeking new ways to identify bone loss in gum disease.

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The University of Toronto, in collaboration with four other Canadian universities, will represent North America as one of only four global innovation collaboratives chosen to work with the prestigious U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) on a project to lead innovation in health education across the globe.

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What happens to an airplane engine before it gets built? You probably don’t think much about it, but Prasanth Nair, the new Canada Research Chair in Computational Modeling and Design does.