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Edmond Young

Associate Professor

Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
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BIO

Edmond W.K. Young joined the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in January 2013. He received his BASc (2001) and MASc (2003) in Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia, and his PhD in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto (2008). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2009 to 2012, working at the Wisconsin Institute for Medical Research (WIMR).

Professor Young’s research interests focus on the development of microscale technologies for cell biology applications, with emphasis on creating engineered models that mimic the cell and tissue microenvironments in both healthy and diseased animals. This interdisciplinary research area requires combining the principles and techniques of microfabrication, fluid mechanics, material science, cell biology, and cell imaging and microscopy. He received the Governor General’s Gold Medal and the Norman F. Moody Award for academic excellence in 2009, the MIE Early Career Teaching Award in 2015, and the Ontario Early Researcher Award and Connaught New Investigator Award in 2016.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor and Dean's Catalyst Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2019 - present
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJan 2013 - Jun 2019
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, United StatesJan 2009 - Dec 2012

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Editorial Board Member
    SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening)Jan 2020 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD - Mechanical Engineering
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • BASc - Mechanical Engineering
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

LANGUAGES

  • Chinese (Cantonese)

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Media enquiries

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • CRAFT (Centre for Research and Applications in Fluidic Technologies)
  • MITO2i (Mitochondrial Innovation Initiative)
  • EPIC (Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium)
  • PRiME (Precision Medicine Initiative)

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