Molly Shoichet

Professor Molly Shoichet holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Tissue Engineering at the University of Toronto. She served as Ontario's first Chief Scientist in 2018 where she worked to enhance the culture of science. Dr. Shoichet has published over 675 papers, patents and abstracts and has given over 400 lectures worldwide. She currently leads a laboratory of 25 and has graduated 190 researchers. Her research is focused on drug and cell delivery strategies in the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord, retina) and 3D hydrogel culture systems to model cancer. Dr. Shoichet co-founded four spin-off companies, is actively engaged in translational research and science outreach. Dr. Shoichet is the recipient of many prestigious distinctions and the only person to be inducted into all three of Canada's National Academies of Science, Engineering and Health Sciences. Professor Shoichet is a Fellow of the Royal Society (UK) and Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and holds the Order of Ontario. Dr. Shoichet is a University Professor – the highest distinction of the University of Toronto, which is held by less than 2% of the faculty. Dr. Shoichet was the L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate for North America in 2015 and won the Killam Prize in Engineering in 2017. Dr. Shoichet received her SB from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1987) and her PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Polymer Science and Engineering (1992).