Evelyn Yim, PEng

Evelyn Yim joined the Department of Chemical Engineering as an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo in 2016. Experienced with nanofabrication technologies and stem cell culture, Evelyn and her Regenerative Nanomedicine Lab group are interested to apply the knowledge biomaterial-stem cell interaction to direct stem cell differentiation and tissue regeneration for neural, vascular and corneal tissue engineering. Evelyn is one of the pioneers in studying stem cell-topography interactions and related applications in tissue engineering. She is one of the leading researchers studying the use of synthetic materials for altering stem cell behavior and differentiation.

Evelyn Yim began her education at the University of Toronto, where she earned her BASc in Engineering Science and MASc in Chemical Engineering, under the supervision of Professor Michael Sefton. She pursued her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University before conducting her post-doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and, under Professor Kam Leong, in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University.

Between 2007 and 2015 Evelyn worked in Singapore, where she held a joint appointment from the National University of Singapore, as faculty in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery, and the Mechanobiology Institute Singapore, a Research Center of Excellence supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore, as a principle investigator studying how chemical and biomechanical cues influence stem cell behavior.

• Modulation of cell behaviour with nanotopography, Topography-regulation of stem cells lineage commitment and differentiation, Differentiation of adult and plutipotent stem cells with nanotopography, Fabrication and application of nano-structure for biomedical applications in neural, vascular and cornea tissue engineering, Biomaterial approach to study ex-vivo pluripotent stem cell expansion, Nanotechnology, Biochemical engineering, Biomedical engineering

• 2006, Doctorate Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
• 2000, Master of Engineering Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
• 1999, Bachelor of Applied Science Engineering Science, University of Toronto, Canada

• BME 489 - Special Topics in Biomedical Devices
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021
• BME 589 - Special Topics in Biomedical Devices
  • Taught in 2022, 2024
• CHE 161 - Engineering Biology
  • Taught in 2020
• CHE 241 - Materials Science and Engineering
  • Taught in 2021
• CHE 500 - Special Topics in Chemical Engineering
  • Taught in 2021
• CHE 561 - Biomaterials and Biomedical Design
  • Taught in 2022, 2024
• NE 481 - Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
• NE 488 - Biomaterials and Biomedical Design
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2024
• NE 489 - Special Topics in Nanoscale Biosystems
  • Taught in 2019, 2020
• SYDE 584 - Physiological Systems and Biomedical Design
  • Taught in 2022

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Tse, John W and Rizwan, Muhammad and Rasmussen, Jonathan and Jones, Lyndon and Yim, Evelyn KF, Gelatin Methacrylate as an Enzyme-Controlled Release Vehicle of Hyaluronic Acid for the Treatment of Recurrent Corneal Erosion, ACS Applied Bio Materials, 6214, 2020
• Yao, Yuan and Zaw, Aung Moe and Anderson, Deirdre EJ and Hinds, Monica T and Yim, Evelyn KF, Fucoidan functionalization on poly (vinyl alcohol) hydrogels for improved endothelialization and hemocompatibility, Biomaterials, 120011, 2020
• Jain, Deepak and Mattiassi, Sabrina and Goh, Eyleen L and Yim, Evelyn KF and others, Extracellular matrix and biomimetic engineering microenvironment for neuronal differentiation, Neural regeneration research, 573, 2020
• Pohan, Grace and Mattiassi, Sabrina and Yao, Yuan and Zaw, Aung Moe and Anderson, Deirdre EJ and Cutiongco, Marie FA and Hinds, Monica T and Yim, Evelyn KF, Effect of Ethylene Oxide Sterilization on Polyvinyl Alcohol Hydrogel Compared with Gamma Radiation, Tissue Engineering Part A, , 2020
• Jeong, YeJin and Yao, Yuan and Yim, Evelyn KF, Current understanding of intimal hyperplasia and effect of compliance in synthetic small diameter vascular grafts, Biomaterials Science, 4383, 2020
• Rizwan, Muhammad and Chan, Sarah W and Comeau, Patricia A and Willett, Thomas L and Yim, Evelyn KF, Effect of sterilization treatment on mechanical properties, biodegradation, bioactivity and printability of GelMA hydrogels, Biomedical Materials, , 2020
• Arora, Seep and Lin, Shiming and Cheung, Christine and Yim, Evelyn KF and Toh, Yi-Chin, Topography elicits distinct phenotypes and functions in human primary and stem cell derived endothelial cells, Biomaterials, 119747, 2020
• Xia, Shumin and Yim, Evelyn KF and Kanchanawong, Pakorn, Molecular organization of integrin-based adhesion complexes in mouse Embryonic Stem Cells, ACS Biomaterials Science \\& Engineering, 3828, 2019
• Koh, Li Buay and Zuo, Keping and Kumar, Gideon Praveen and Ding, Xin and Leo, Hwa Liang and Cui, Fangsen and Charles, Christopher J and Yang, Yi-Yan and Yim, Evelyn KF and Ho, Pei, Optimization of a Novel Preferential Covered Stent through Bench Experiments and in Vitro Platelet Activation Studies, ACS Biomaterials Science \\& Engineering, 6216, 2019
• Pohan, Grace and Chevallier, Pascale and Anderson, Deirdre and Tse, John and Yao, Yuan and Hagen, Matthew W and Mantovani, Diego and Hinds, Monica and Yim, Evelyn KF, Luminal Plasma Treatment for Small Diameter Polyvinyl Alcohol Tubular Scaffolds, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 117, 2019

• Faculty researchers awarded $900K from government
• Chemical engineering professors named University Research Chairs