Faculty Profile - Dr. Craig A. Simmons

Dr. Craig A. Simmons

Craig A. Simmons Assistant Professor Biomaterials Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering 5 King's College Road, Room 221 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G8 Phone: 416-946-0548 Fax: 416-978-7753 c.simmons@utoronto.ca www.mechanobiology.ca

Current academic / hospital appointments

• Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto
• Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
• Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto

Education

• 1991 – B.Sc.(Eng.), University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
• 1994 – S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
• 2000 – Ph.D., University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
• 2002 – Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• 2004 – Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Courses

Undergraduate: MIE100 Dynamics; MIE439 Biomechanics; DEN150 Biomaterials

Research interests

• Cellular mechanobiology
• Cell and tissue biomechanics (experimental and computational)
• Heart valve mechanics, mechanobiology, and disease
• Stem cell mechanobiology and tissue engineering
  

Recent publications

Refer to my lab website

Awards and Honours

• Canada Research Chair in Mechanobiology (Tier II)
• Ontario Early Researcher Award
  

Students

Refer to my lab website

Current research grants

• Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario
• NSERC
• CIHR