Craig A. Simmons, Ph.D.

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto, led by Professor Craig Simmons (BME, MIE), have described a novel method for engineering soft connective tissues with mechanical properties resembling those of native tissues. This finding, published in Advanced Functional Materials, has promising implications in the generation of more realistic tissues and organs for regenerative medicine.

“Soft connective tissues, including heart valves, possess highly nonlinear and anisotropic mechanical properties that haven’t been accurately replicated in tissue-engineered structures before,” says Bahram Mirani, an MIE PhD candidate and the lead author of the paper… Continue reading.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Craig A. Simmons, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Simmons was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for pioneering contributions to understand the mechanobiology of heart valve disease and methodologies to create mechanically dynamic microtissue models.