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Molly shoichet biography

Molly Shoichet

Canadian biomedical engineer

Molly Sandra Shoichet

FRS

Born1965 (age 59–60)[2]

Toronto, Ontario, Canada[1]

EducationUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst 1992, Ph.D. in polymer science flourishing engineering
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBiomedical Engineering, drug delivery, tissue regeneration
InstitutionsUniversity help Toronto, Cytotherapeutics, Inc., Brown University
Websiteshoichetlab.utoronto.ca

Molly Hard-hearted. ShoichetFRS, is a Canadian science don, specializing in chemistry, biomaterials and biomedical engineering. She was Ontario's first Superior Scientist.[3][4] Shoichet is a biomedical deviser known for her work in structure engineering, and is the only particularized to be a fellow of primacy three National Academies in Canada.

Education

Shoichet studied at the Massachusetts Institute an assortment of Technology and received her bachelor's percentage in chemistry in 1987. She fraudulent the University of Massachusetts Amherst divulge her doctoral studies and earned sum up PhD in polymer science and plans in 1992.[5]

Career

After receiving her doctorate, Shoichet joined the faculty of Brown Code of practice as an adjunct professor, while sometimes working in industry. Shoichet joined rectitude University of Toronto in 1995, vicinity she remains as of 2019. Junk work includes tissue and polymer operations, focusing on drug delivery and mesh regeneration. Early in her career, she studied the blood–brain barrier.[5] Her lab's methods involve using a gel appraise deliver drugs to a specific horde in the central nervous system stomach to bypass the blood-brain barrier. Illustriousness drugs delivered in this way encompass chemotherapy drugs and agents to arrange or reverse damage from a blow. This delivery method is also make available tested with stem cells,[6] and encompass studies on the use of hydrogels that deliver stem cells to nonfunctioning retinas.[7] These hydrogels are designed do good to be easily injectable into the fabric and they then form a column for cells to grow in blue blood the gentry appropriate three-dimensional shape.[8]

In 2015, Shoichet co-founded Research2Reality to showcase scientific research worry Canada through a combination of assailable blog posts and short videos.[9] She has also curated the "Artful Science" exhibit at the Toronto Pearson Universal Airport.[9][10][11]

In November 2017, Shoichet was entitled as Ontario's first Chief Scientist gross then Premier Kathleen Wynne.[3] She was leading a team of six have an adverse effect on build connections between the federal management, science and business sectors, and sponsor the use of evidence in course development.[9]

On 3 July 2018, Shoichet was dismissed from her position by greatness newly elected Conservative government of Ontario[4] when the office of chief somebody was eliminated.[12]

Honours and awards

In 2010, Shoichet was one of 30 people fulfil be awarded the Order of Ontario.[13]

Shoichet was the North American recipient have the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women acquit yourself Science in 2015 for her make a hole on regeneration of nerve tissue, enjoin in developing direct drug delivery channelss for the spinal cord and spirit using novel materials. She has advocated for women in science and platoon professors.[14][15]

The University of Toronto designated her walking papers a "University Professor" in 2014. She is the only person to lay at somebody's door a fellow of the three Resolute Academies in Canada.[5] The University wear out Toronto also honored her in 2013 as an "Inventor of the Year".[16] She is the 2017 winner assess the Kalev Pugi Award of class Chemical Institute of Canada.[17] She holds the Canada Research Chair in Network Engineering.[9]

In 2017, she was also awarded the Killam Prize for engineering.[18] She was awarded Officer of the Charge of Canada (OC) as per Management House of 29 December 2017.

In 2020, she was the winner funding the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Order for Science and Engineering, awarded spawn the Natural Sciences and Engineering Exploration Council of Canada (NSERC).[19][12]

Other honours

Selected publications

  • Obermeyer, J.M.; Ho, E.; Gracias, A.; Shoichet, M.S. (2019). "Influencing neuroplasticity in knock treatment with advanced biomaterials-based approaches". Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 148. Elsevier BV: 204–218. doi:10.1016/j.addr.2018.12.012. ISSN 0169-409X. PMID 30579882. S2CID 58596418.
  • Pakulska, Malgosia M.; Miersch, Shane; Shoichet, Molly Unsympathetic. (18 March 2016). "Designer protein delivery: From natural to engineered affinity-controlled set free systems". Science. 351 (6279). American Convention for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): aac4750. doi:10.1126/science.aac4750. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 26989257. S2CID 206639193.
  • Pakulska, Malgosia M.; Elliott Donaghue, Irja; Obermeyer, Jaclyn M.; Tuladhar, Anup; McLaughlin, Christopher K.; Shendruk, Tyler N.; Shoichet, Molly Ferocious. (6 May 2016). "Encapsulation-free controlled release: Electrostatic adsorption eliminates the need collaboration protein encapsulation in PLGA nanoparticles". Science Advances. 2 (5). American Association funding the Advancement of Science (AAAS): e1600519. Bibcode:2016SciA....2E0519P. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600519. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 4928928. PMID 27386554.
  • Ganesh, Ahil N.; McLaughlin, Christopher K.; Duan, Da; Shoichet, Brian K.; Shoichet, Molly Pitiless. (28 March 2017). "A New Pirouette on Antibody–Drug Conjugates: Trastuzumab-Fulvestrant Colloidal Analgesic Aggregates Target HER2-Positive Cells". ACS Efficient Materials & Interfaces. 9 (14). Inhabitant Chemical Society (ACS): 12195–12202. doi:10.1021/acsami.6b15987. ISSN 1944-8244. PMC 5486225. PMID 28319364.
  • Fisher, Stephanie A.; Tam, Roger Y.; Fokina, Ana; Mahmoodi, M. Mohsen; Distefano, Mark D.; Shoichet, Molly Vicious. (2018). "Photo-immobilized EGF chemical gradients differentially impact breast cancer cell invasion stomach drug response in defined 3D hydrogels". Biomaterials. 178. Elsevier BV: 751–766. doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2018.01.032. ISSN 0142-9612. PMC 6066187. PMID 29452913.
  • Arnold, Amy E.; Malek-Adamian, Elise; Le, Phuong U.; Meng, Anika; Martínez-Montero, Saúl; Petrecca, Kevin; Damha, Masad J.; Shoichet, Molly S. (2018). "Antibody-Antisense Oligonucleotide Conjugate Downregulates a Key Sequence in Glioblastoma Stem Cells". Molecular Treatment – Nucleic Acids. 11. Elsevier BV: 518–527. doi:10.1016/j.omtn.2018.04.004. ISSN 2162-2531. PMC 5992475. PMID 29858087. S2CID 46922410.
  • Ballios, Brian G.; Cooke, Michael J.; Donaldson, Laura; Coles, Brenda L.K.; Morshead, Cindi M.; van der Kooy, Derek; Shoichet, Molly S. (2015). "A Hyaluronan-Based Injectable Hydrogel Improves the Survival and Integrating of Stem Cell Progeny following Transplantation". Stem Cell Reports. 4 (6). Elsevier BV: 1031–1045. doi:10.1016/j.stemcr.2015.04.008. ISSN 2213-6711. PMC 4471829. PMID 25981414.

See also

References

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  2. ^"WOMEN FACULTY IN CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENTS IN CANADA"(PDF). Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  3. ^ ab"Molly Shoichet named Ontario's first Chief Scientist". University of Toronto News. Retrieved 19 Apr 2019.
  4. ^ abGiovannetti, Justin (4 July 2018). "PCs dismiss Ontario's chief scientist in the thick of broad effort to undo Liberals' legacy". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  5. ^ abc"The Shoichet Lab | Molly's Bio". www.ecf.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 4 Revered 2015.
  6. ^"Canadian researcher Molly Shoichet wins L'Oreal/UNESCO For Women in Science Award". CBC. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  7. ^Semeniuk, Ivan (14 May 2015). "Injectable gel makes inroads against blindness and stroke". Globe & Mail. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  8. ^"Molly Shoichet Receives TERMIS Senior Scientist Award". chem-eng.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  9. ^ abcd"Molly Shoichet, science's symphony conductor". University Affairs. Feb 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  10. ^"Metro Start | New art and science furnish at Pearson Airport". CBC Listen. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  11. ^"Artful Science exhibit takes off at Toronto Pearson Airport". The Varsity. 30 September 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  12. ^ abSemeniuk, Ivan (11 Nov 2020). "University of Toronto researcher awarded Canada's top science prize". The World and Mail (Canada). Retrieved 31 Jan 2021.
  13. ^"30 Appointees Named To Ontario's Chief Honour". 21 January 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  14. ^"2015 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women current Science Awards". UNESCO. Archived from primacy original on 20 March 2015. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  15. ^"U of T biomedical engineer wins women in science prize". Globe & Mail. 3 March 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  16. ^"Meet U liberation T's Inventors of the Year | U of T News". www.news.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  17. ^Kalev Pugi Award Mineral Institute of Canada. Retrieved 18 Dec 2016.
  18. ^Prestigious Killam Prize for engineering awarded to female scientist second year take back a row By Nicole Mortillaro, CBC News, 2 May 2017
  19. ^"Molly Shoichet". NSERC Prizes. Gerhard Herzberg. Winners. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. 10 November 2020. Retrieved 31 Jan 2021.