Milica Radisic receives International Humboldt Research Award

siddiq22 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:05:51 +0000

Research & Innovation

siddiq22 Thu, 08/10/2023 - 10:05

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St. George

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering

Humboldt Research Prize

Institute of Biomedical Engineering

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Milica Radisic (supplied photo)

Milica Radisic, a professor in the department of chemical engineering and applied chemistry and in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, has received a 2023 Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Named for the famed naturalist, explorer and patron, the award honours the academic achievements of internationally recognized scientists and scholars from outside of Germany. Award winners are also invited to carry out their own research project in Germany for six months to a year, and they receive 60,000 euros, which can be used to fund the project and travel.

“This is a huge honour. The award is one of the most prestigious international recognitions a scientist can get,” says Radisic, who holds the Canada Research Chair in organ-on-a-chip engineering.

A leading expert in bioengineering human tissues and the design of microfluidic chips, Radisic will begin working with Professor Ulrike Nuber of the Technical University of Darmstadt next year at her lab, which focuses on creating disease models from human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Together, they will partner with researchers at Charité, the Berlin University of Medicine – one of Europe's largest university hospitals – to develop a vascularized organ-on-a-chip model.

“This opportunity will allow me and my colleagues from the Centre for Research and Applications in Fluidic Technologies to build a bridge across the Atlantic and connect with our colleagues from Germany, who have really interesting ideas about the role of endothelial cells and endothelial dysfunction in creating multi-organ failure,” Radisic says.

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Martin Revermann awarded Humboldt Research Prize

lanthierj — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 19:08:22 +0000

Martin Revermann awarded Humboldt Research Prize

Research & Innovation

lanthierj Thu, 12/15/2022 - 14:08

Faculty

Mississauga

Humboldt Research Prize

Department of Historical Studies

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University of Toronto Mississauga historical studies professor Martin Revermann has received the 2022 Humboldt Research Prize, which recognizes outstanding senior researchers whose work has a significant impact in their field.

Revermann, a former University of Oxford Rhodes Scholar who also received the 2021 Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award, specializes in performance criticism and the cultural history of Greek drama, as well as the work of German playwright Bertolt Brecht.

Revermann says he plans to use funding from the Humboldt award for an international research group examining how Latin and Greek texts are being translated into modern languages. The team includes classicists from University of Giessen in Germany (where the colleague who nominated Revermann for the Humboldt prize is located), and Suola Normale Superiore in Italy.

The project includes workshops in Germany, Italy and on the �鶹��Ƶ Mississauga campus. Revermann will also be sponsoring �鶹��Ƶ graduate students to participate in the workshops.

“I am particularly excited that this prize enables me to create an international forum for many early-career academics who, I hope, will be positively influenced by the experience for their own future work as researchers and pedagogues,” Revermann says.

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