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Dr. Molly Shoichet

Dr. Molly Shoichet holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Tissue Engineering and is Professor of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Chemistry and Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. She is an expert in the study of Polymers for Drug Delivery & Regeneration which are materials that promote healing in the body. 

Dr. Shoichet has published close to 400 papers, patents and abstracts and has given over 250 lectures worldwide.  She currently leads a laboratory of 25 researchers and has graduated 75 researchers over the past 15 years.  She founded two spin-off companies from research in her laboratory.

Dr. Shoichet is the recipient of such prestigious distinctions as the Canada Council for the Arts’ Killam Research Fellowship, NSERC’s Steacie Fellowship, CIfAR’s Young Explorer’s Award (to the top 20 scientists under 40 in Canada), CSChE’s Syncrude Innovation Award, Canada’s Top 40 under 40th and the Royal Society of Canada’s Rutherford Memorial Award. Dr. Shoichet was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Sciences in 2008, the highest distinction awarded to a Canadian scientist.

Before being recruited to the University of Toronto in 1995, Dr. Shoichet worked at CytoTherapeutics Inc. on encapsulated cell therapy. Dr. Shoichet received her S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Chemistry (1987) and her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Polymer Science and Engineering (1992).

Education

University of Massachusetts, Amhert, MA, 1989-1992
Doctor of Philosophy, Polymer Science and Engineering
Thesis title: Synthesis and Adsorption of Polymers - Control of Polymer &
Surface Structure

Focussing on 3 themes:

• Surface Chemical Modification of Polymers
• Controlled Adsorption of Modified Polymers from Solution to
Solution/Solid Surfaces
• Polymer Synthesis and Modification

University of Massachusetts, Amhert, MA, 1987-1992
Master of Science, Polymer Science and Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1983-1987
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry
Humanities, with a concentration in French

Professional Experience

University of Toronto (1995-present)
Toronto, Ontario

Director
Bioengineering Minor (Aug 2005-July 2008)

Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Faculty of Medicine (7/2000-present)
Program in Neuroscience (1/2003-present)

Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Faculty of Medicine (7/2000-present)
Program in Neuroscience (1/2003-present)

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Department of Chemistry (7/1995-6/2000)

Associate Director
Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (3/2000-6/2001)

Visiting Scientist
Pharmacology Department (4/1995-6/1995)

Brown University (1992-1995)
Providence, RI

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Biotechnology (1993-1995)
Lecturer (1992-1993)

Industrial Experience

Bonetec Corporation, Toronto, Ontario (1998-2003)

Vice President, Founding Scientist and Director

President, Founding Scientist

Director and consultant

Scientist, Device Design and Stability Group, Development Laboratory
(10/1994-5/1995)
Associate Scientist, Bioengineering Group, ResearchLaboratory (9/1992-9/1994