Bio-Interfaced Soft Materials for Point-of-Care and Personalized Medicine
Dr. Shaghayegh Shajari
Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
Date: Friday, February 20, 2026
Time: 1–2 p.m. EDT
Host: Dr. Stephen Waldman
Location: In-person and virtual
LKS Auditorium – 209 Victoria Street, and via Zoom
Lecture Takeaways
The main takeaways are as follows:
- Next-generation wearable and implantable devices can monitor health continuously and in real time. Advances in bio-interfaced materials are enabling new technologies that track vital health signals and support early diagnosis and personalized care.
- Research in soft bio-interfaced materials is accelerating the translation of lab discoveries into real-world healthcare solutions and translational medicine. By bridging engineering, materials science, and medicine, these innovations are moving closer to clinical and everyday use.he current technological gaps
Biography
Dr. Shaghayegh Shajari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and affiliated with iBEST (St. Michael’s Hospital/Unity Health). She earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Calgary, developing smart polymer-based soft materials and nanomaterials for wearable health monitoring and flexible electronics, recognized with major awards and honours including the Alberta Innovates Technology Futures Award, Eyes High, Dean’s Scholarship and the Graduate Citizenship Award. She held postdoctoral fellowships at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute (Brain CREATE) and Northwestern University’s Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics (NSERC postdoctoral fellowship, Prof. John A. Rogers), advancing wearable microfluidics, biosensors, and implantable drug delivery devices. She also conducted research at UCLA on bioadhesive skin interfaces and soft actuators for Braille displays. Her work has led to patents, numerous peer-review publications and journal cover features, and leadership roles, including Associate Editor for Frontiers in Sensors and cohort leader in the WISE Planet LEAP program and previously President of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Association (MEGSA).Dr. Shajari’s research integrates smart bio-interfacing materials with translational biomedical device technologies, promoting a shift from centralized clinical diagnostics to personalized and precision medicine.
No sign-up is required. For more information, contact the iBEST coordinator at ibest@torontomu.ca.
