NSERC Piramal Industrial Research Chair in Hybrid Biomaterials for Innovative Regenerative Technologies

Affiliated To

• Department of Chemical Engineering
• Institute of Biomedical Engineering

Contact Information

• Telephone: 514-340-4711 ext.4931
• Fax: 514-340-2980
• Office: A-677.2
• Email: michael.buschmann@polymtl.ca
• Web Site: http://www.polymtl.ca/tissue

Professors/Researchers

• Michael D. Buschmann, Chairholder

Research Specification

The NSERC Industrial Chair will allow us to deepen our understanding of a new class of  hybrid biomaterials and link their composition and structure to their biomechanical and  biological properties, with an eye to developing tissue and organ regeneration  applications. We also intend to develop new imaging  techniques using an opticalelectronic microscope that will yield highly accurate structural analyses.

Research Personnel

• Professors/Researchers: 1
• Graduate Students: 7
• Postdoctoral Fellows: 1
• Research Assistants and Technicians: 13

Specialized Equipments

Orbital Bacterial shaker, Marival Sputter coater, Autostainer Varistain Thermo 24-4k, Analytical Balance Mettler Toledo, Bioanalyzer Agilent 2100, Bioquant Image Analysis, Centrifuge ACE E-Z PRP, Centrifuge cytospin, Centrifuge Jouan, Shimadzu Analytical Size exclusion chromatography with Wyatt detectors, Shimadzu Preparative Size exclusion chromatography, Speed vacuum Savant, Conductivity meter, Freezers -20°C, -80°C, et -150°C, Cryostat Leica CM3050S with CryoJane tape transfer system, Cryostat Microm 560 CryoJane tape transfer system, Flow Cytometer MoFlo with multi-wavelength, Hybridization oven, Tissue Chopper McIlwain, Biological Hoods, Chemical Hoods, Autoimmunostainer Labvision Thermo, CO₂ incubator, Microplate reader Tecan, 12-port, Tray type Lyophilizer/Freeze dryer Millrock LD85, Stereo Microscope Zeiss Stemi, Fluorescent Inverted Microscope Zeiss Axiovert, Upright Microscope Zeiss Axiolab, Upright Microscope Zeiss Axiostar, Confocal Microscope Multiphoton Zeiss Axioplan LSM510, Confocal Microscope Olympus (hybrid spinning disk/point scanner), Quanta FEG 200 Environmental Scanning Electronic Microscope, Microtome Leica Polycut Heavy duty sliding SM2500, Microtome Leica 2155 for paraffin, Slide scanner Hamamatsu, Oscilloscope Tektronix, Osmometer Advanced Instruments, pH meter Accumet, Tissue Processor Leica TP1020, Cryobiological storage  vessel Liquid nitrogen, PCR Real-Time Rotorgene HRM, Isomet Low Speed Saw, Spectrophotometer Beckman DU 640, Immunostation Thermo Shandon Sequenza, MilliQ water filtration system, Mach-1^TM micromechanical testing system Biomomentum, Ultracentrifuge Coulter Beckman Optima-MaxE, Vibratome 100

External Sources of Funding

Canada Research Chairs, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Fonds de recherche en santé du Québec, Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et technologies, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canadian Arthritis Network,  Ministère de l'éducation, des loisirs et des sports du Québec, NanoQuebec