Killam Research Fellowship

Joseph Heath and Milica Radisic awarded Killam Research Fellowships

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Joseph Heath and Milica Radisic awarded Killam Research Fellowships

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Killam Research Fellowship

Faculty of Arts & Science

Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering

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For their exceptional scholarship, Joseph Heath of the Faculty of Arts & Science and Milica Radisic of the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have each received a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts.

“Congratulations to Professor Radisic and Professor Heath," said Professor Vivek Goel, the University of Toronto's vice-president, research and innovation and strategic initiatives. “These fellowships are an important recognition of their work – and I would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts and the Killam Trusts for their continuing support of our scholars.”

Professor Radisic, of the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering and the department of chemical engineering, holds the Canada Research Chair in Functional Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering. She has made transformational advances in tissue engineering that have resulted in new methods for growing human tissue in the lab.

Milica Radisic receives Killam Research Fellowship

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Milica Radisic receives Killam Research Fellowship

Research & Innovation

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Faculty

St. George

Killam Research Fellowship

Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering

IBBME

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

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Professor Milica Radisic of the department of chemical engineering and applied chemistry in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering has received a Killam Research Fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts.

“It is a great honour to receive this fellowship, and to be in the company of so many wonderful researchers from across Canada,” says Radisic. “My team will use this support to continue our innovative approaches to drug development and tissue repair, and to address medical challenges that currently have no solution.”

Radisic holds the Canada Research Chair in Functional Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering. Her transformational advances in tissue engineering have resulted in new methods for growing human tissue in the lab. Her team was among the first in the world to use electrical impulses and specially designed bioreactors to guide heart cells to assemble into a structure in which they beat independently of a body. The team also designed an injectable tissue patch that could be used to repair hearts, livers or other organs damaged by disease or injury. These technologies are the basis of the spinoff companies TARA Biosystems and Quthero.

Among Radisic’s many honours are the Steacie Prize and Steacie Fellowship, the 2019 Research and Development Medal from the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers and Professional Engineers Ontario and the 2018 YWCA Toronto Woman of Distinction award.

Joseph Heath receives Killam Research Fellowship

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Joseph Heath receives Killam Research Fellowship

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Faculty

Killam Research Fellowship

Department of Philosophy

Faculty of Arts & Science

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Joseph Heath, a professor in the Faculty of Arts & Science’s department of philosophy has been awarded a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts.

“I am pleased and honored to have been awarded a Killam Research Fellowship,” says Heath. “The project that I will be working on is entirely new, yet also represents a return to my roots as a student of critical theory.”

The two-year fellowship, valued at $70,000 per year, is intended to support research projects of broad significance and widespread interest. Heath's project will address a foundational issue in modern scholarship – how to criticize society. He will create a handbook of best critical practices for social scientists, emphasizing a need for social critics to be transparent concerning their own evaluative standards.

“Throughout my career, I have been active not only in philosophical research, but also in public debates on a wide range of issues. This project is my opportunity to reflect upon those experiences and attempt to sort out what works and what doesn't, and what academics have to offer when they weigh in on political questions.”

A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Heath received a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship in 2012 and the 2014 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book of popular philosophy, Enlightenment 2.0.

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