CRAFT Co-Directors
Axel Guenther, PhD
Professor, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Teodor Veres, PhD
Director Research and Development, Bio-Analytical MicroNano Devices section (BioAMND), Boucherville, QC
Claudia dos Santos, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Critical Care Physician and Scientist, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael’s Hospital
CRAFT Scientific Leadership
Milica Radisic, PhD
Pillar co-lead
Organ-on-a-chip
Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at University of Toronto,
Canada Research Chair in Functional Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering, Senior Scientist, UHN
Aaron Wheeler, PhD
Pillar co-lead
Diagnostics
Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair in Microfluidic Bioanalysis
Hagar Labouta, PhD
CRAFT Scientific Committee
Keenan Professor of Medical Discovery at Unity health Toronto and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto at Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Daniel Brassard, PhD
CRAFT Scientific Committee
Senior Research Officer, National Research Council of Canada, lead for the Microfluidic Systems team at the Medical Devices Research Centre
Keith Morton, PhD
CRAFT Scientific
Commitee
Senior Research Officer and Micro-Nanofabrication Team Lead, BioAnalytical Micro-Nano Devices section at the National Research Council of Canada
CRAFT NRC Research Officers
Micheal Dryden, PhD
Assistant Professor (status-only) in the Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Afshin Abrishamkar, PhD
Assistant Professor (status-only) in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering,
University of Toronto
Yufeng Zhao, PhD
Assistant Professor (status-only) in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy,
University of Toronto
CRAFT Research Technicians
Victor Sit, BSc
NRC Technical Officer
Zhamak Abdi Dezfooli, MSc
NRC Technical Officer
Avantika Vaidya, M.Eng
UofT Laboratory Technician
CRAFT Staff
Dan Voicu, PhD
Operations Manager,
CRAFT Facilities
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
Jennifer Doucet, PhD, PMP
Program Manager,
Research and Partnerships
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
Elisabete Augusto
Director,
Administration and Finance
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
Victoria Wong
Research Financial and Program Administrator
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
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