The researchers pictured above will be working on projects supported by the CRAFT Project Awards. Clockwise, starting from top-left hand corner: Claudia dos Santos (U of T), Keith Morton (NRC), Amy Wong (U of T), Daniel Brassard (NRC), Edmond Young (U of T) and Lidija Malic (NRC).

NRC Technical Officers Victor Sit (left) and Kayla Soon (right) working in the new Tissue Foundry (Photo: Dahlia Katz).

New CRAFT Tissue Foundry provides infrastructure dedicated to bioengineering innovation.

Following the launch of the Device Foundry in November 2021, the Centre for Research and Applications in Fluidic Technologies (CRAFT) has opened a new and expanded Tissue Foundry at the University of Toronto.

CRAFT, a U of T Institutional Strategic Initiative and collaborative research centre formed in partnership with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) will operate the open research facility at U of T’s Mechanical Engineering Building.

The Tissue Foundry offers a wide range of instruments to allow microfluidics researchers to complete the preclinical assessment of their devices, culture and image tissues for their research, and print physiologically relevant 3D structures using biomaterials and cells. NRC Technical Officers at CRAFT support the Foundry and train students who would like to use the equipment for their research projects.

Read the full news story on the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering News webpage.

The Tissue Foundry includes room MC405 (pictured here), which was recently renovated into a Containment Level 2 biosafety lab equipped for tissue culture, cell imaging, PCR and automated imaging/liquid handling. (Photo: Dahlia Katz)

Recent Posts