2026

Lab trainees earn major awards: Canada Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative (Abhishek Kumar), NSERC USRA (Saad Butt), CADR/NCOHR Hatton Travel Award (Daniela Alvim Chrisostomo), and Mitacs Globalink (Caroline Forrest).

Nov 2025

Nadeen Meshry defends her PhD on DNA-based hydrogels for developmental and acquired bone defects, and continues in the lab as a postdoctoral fellow.

2025

Isabel Li receives the Bone and Mineral Group Scholarship, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and Jaro Sodek Award. Nadeen Meshry places 1st in the CADR NSRG Second Student Research Competition.

Sept 2024

Karina Carneiro rebuilds tissue using synthetic DNA — C&EN Trailblazers interview (Vol. 102, Issue 29).

June 2024

Invited keynote: “DNA: From self-assembly to mineralized tissue regeneration,” Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Edmonton.

Mar 2025

Review published in Acta Biomaterialia: DNA as a promising biomaterial for bone regeneration.

2024

Mercedes Ing wins 1st place, 3MT Award, Research Day (U of T). Ontario Early Researcher Award Round 17 awarded to Dr. Carneiro.

2023

Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in DNA-based materials. PNAS paper on DNA hydrogels for bone regeneration; highlighted in Extracellular Matrix News and Kudos.

2025–2030

New major funding: NSERC Discovery Grant and CIHR Operational Grant supporting nucleic acid-based materials and DNA gel / 3D-printed scaffold implant systems.