Wednesday, December 7, 2016 2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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SEMINAR - “Engineering Smart Hydrogels on Multiple Length Scales for Biomedical and Biosensing Applications” by Todd Hoare, Associate Professor and University Scholar, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
ABSTRACT: While multiple types of smart, environmentally-responsive materials have been explored for a variety of biomedical applications (e.g. drug delivery, tissue engineering, bioimaging, etc.), their ultimate clinical use has been hampered by their lack of biologically-relevant degradation as well as challenges regarding their non-surgical administration to the body. These factors have particularly limited the clinical use of temperature-responsive hydrogels, which are either highly labile in diluting environments like the body (e.g.
Professor Emeritus Campbell William Robinson passed away on October 18, 2016. He was a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1971–1996 and was part of the Biochemical Engineering research group. 
