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See Dr. Sowmya Viswanathan's news below:

2024
January	Investigating the link between gut health and osteoarthritis. Text Interview. Research at UHN
April	Congratulations to Dr. Sowmya Viswanathan, for being elected as 2024-2026's North America's Regional VP-Elect of the International Stem Cell Society (ISCT)!
June	Incorporating EDI principles in teams and research approaches. Podcast. Tesselle Development Congratulations to Dr. Sowmya Viswanathan and 10 other BME members for receiving a combined $500,000+ funding from NSERC!

2023
January	Job Matching for Cells. Text Interview. Research at UHN
April	Appointed Co-Chair of the ISCT 2024 Vancouver Annual Meeting (May 29 - June 1, 2024)
July	Researchers are creating algorithms to accelerate the development of new cellular therapies to repair damaged tissues. Text Interview. University of Toronto Engineering News.

2022
January	January 12: Dr. Viswanathan’s publication is featured in The Arthritis Society’s Top 10 Research Advances of 2021 January 25: Dr. Viswanathan has won the Arthritis Society’s 2021-2022 Strategic Operating Grants
April	April 20: Panelist at 2022 Canadian Bone & Joint Conference Young Investigator Forum at Western University
June	Nominated to be the Co-chair of International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT) Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Committee.
August	Nominated Co-Chair of ISCT's Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Committee (July 2022 – July 2024) Appointed ISCT Strategic Advisory Council Member for two years (August 2022 – June 2024) Invited Speaker. Clinical efficacy in knee osteoarthritis trial correlates with critical quality attributes of mesenchymal stromal cells. Regenerative Medicine and Osteoarthritis: Challenges and Opportunities Symposium, Toronto, ON, Canada.
October	New Model for Osteoarthritis. News story on the 2022 Krembil Annual Report

2021
November	November 13: Speaker at the Biotechnology and Bioengineering Conference (BioTEC), leading a breakout session. November 15-17: Speaker at the Till and McCulloch Meetings 2021 on Multiple Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Critical Quality Attributes Correlate with Clinical Efficacy in Osteoarthritis November 15: Publication featured on UHN News A New Model for Osteoarthritis November 17: Speaker at the ISCT Orthopedic & Musculoskeletal Committee “Hot Topics” Webinar Series on Measuring and Managing Batch Variation in MSC Fabrication Session
October	October 7: Publication featured on the OARSI newsletter OARSI eNew
September	September 28:Speaker at the 2021 Macrophage-directed Therapies Summit on Macrophage polarization, resident-infiltrating interactions, and therapeutic avenues within the osteoarthritic knee joint
July	July 23: Chairing the Regulatory Workshop for the 2021 Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) Australia
June	June 8: Received a CRAFT grant for the project, Novel osteoarthritic joint-on-a-chip (JOC) systems for disease modelling June 9: Moving closer to a cure for arthritis. Text Interview with UHN Foundation June 15: Panelist on the Krembil Discovery Series virtual presentation series for University Health Network
May	May 26: Chair of the MSC plenary satellite session on "Understanding Regulatory Requirements for Potency Assays" with Drs Steven Bauer, Mauro Krampera and Eleuterio Lombardo for ISCT 2021 May 28: Received a $6M Foundation gift with Dr. Christian Veillette and Dr. Chris Kim for the development and implementation of orthobiologics and cell therapies on a major scale
February	February 11: Inspiring the Future of STEM with Drs Gelareh Zadeh, Mojgan Hodaie, Valerie Wallace and Sowmya Viswanathan for International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2021