RADISIC, Millica - Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Milica Radisic is a global leader in cardiac tissue engineering, building living heart tissue in the laboratory using cells and biomaterials. Dr. Radisic successfully tackled the field’s most difficult problem - immaturity of human pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes - maturing these cells to unprecedented levels with electrostimulation. She was also the first to achieve direct surgical connection of the branching vascular bed, engineered in vitro, to the host circulation.