Highly looking forward to sharing our work at the 13th Canadian Developmental Biology Conference — March 7–10, 2027 - St. Sauveur, QC.

Huge congrats to our two rising stars Noah Verreault and Théa Milland in receiving the prestigious FRQ scholarships! With Théa ALSO recieving a CIHR scholarship! wow! well done!

We have an engineer in the team! Giselle just graduated her B.Eng in Biomedical Engineering from McGill, and got admitted for M.Sc. to Experimental Medicine! The good news is, she will continue her multi-diciplinary work in our lab engineering tissues on a chip!

Congratulations to Noah for successful transfer to PhD! We are very impressed by your progress!

We are looking forward to ISSCR 2026 in Montreal and to sharing our science through posters presented by Théa Milland and Ying Deng, who both received abstract awards, as well as by other members of the lab.

Biofabrication robuste et avancée pour la valorisation d’organoïdes (BRAVO), co-lead by Dr. Darcy Wagner and Dr. Corinne Hoesli project brings together a strong network of collaborators from the McGill University, Polytechnique Montréal, Université de Sherbrooke, and the University of Ottawa. Exciting things ahead for this cross-disciplinary team! Read more: https://healthenews.mcgill.ca/

Congratulations Théa for your best poster award at McGill Regenerative Medicine Research Day!

Great initiative by Stem Cell Network Let's Talk Science | Parlons sciences ! Théa Milland and Giselle De Leon had a great time interacting with highschool students accross Montreal and promoting future careers in regenerative medicine!

We are excited to welcoming Christian Poitras, a senior bioinformatitian to our team!

“ In 2025, Austin Bautista led our continued effort to expand our offerings with the creation and distribution of live pancreas slices. Many thanks to the groups of Drs. Bruce Verchere, Yassi Aghazadeh, and Vira Kravets, as well as Fractyl Health, for their collaboration on this pilot project. If this is a service that is of interest to you, please do not hesitate to reach out! (Image credit: Verreault, De Leon, and Aghazadeh)”. Read more: https://www.bcell.org/adi-isletcore.html

Wishing everyone a happy and restful holiday season!

Was great to catch up with islet researchers across Canada. Well done Ying on a very nice presentation of your thesis project!

Another great and inspiring Till & McCulloch meeting!
- Ying Deng and Théa Milland both received their first travel awards and did a great job in their poster presentations!
- Great ECR events, networking and career advise
- Fantastic talks on the potential of stem cell islets in modelling early development and treatment of type 1 diabetes
- An emotional and impactful patient talk on how early cell therapies saved the life of baby Amy.
- Amazing talk by Dr. Timothy Caulfieldon misinformation and pseudoscience.
- A beautiful tribute to Dr. James Till

Huge thanks to the SCN and looking forward to the next meeting!

Grateful for the invitation to present our work at the Vascular 2025 Conference, Cape Cod, MA.

Very proud of our students for being among poster winnes at Reseau TheCell research day in all categories:

Ying Deng, best poster PhD

Thea Milland: best poster MSc

Giselle de Leon: Best poster BSc

Well deserved! #ProudPI

We are very proud of our two new grad students, Thea and Noah for winning IRCM scholarships.

Please read a recent review by Usama et al on the success and challenges of stem cell islet therapy for the treatment of Type 1 Diabetes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40831568/

This summer (2025) we welcomed Gloria (research assistant), Giselle (Undergrad intern), and Noah (M.Sc. student) to our team! We are happy to have you onboard!

Congradulations to Ying for winning the award for best oral presentation at the IRCM scientific forum, June 2025.

We are very proud of our summer undergrad, Giselle (on the left) for winning the prestigious student award from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and fulfilling a very successful internship in summer 2025. We are glad you are staying in the lab for 2 more semesters.

Celebrating the end of a fun and productive year! Wishing you a relaxing break! #2025

Huge congratulations to Ying (in the middle), for transferring to PhD degree in November 2024. We are proud of your progress.

Ying has obtained a scholarship from the Canadian Islet Research and Trainee Network. Congratulations for being recognized by the islet biology community in Canada.

Usama's presentation aiming at bringing awareness to type 1 diabetes won first prize in IRCM science POP and advanced to provincial level! We are proud of you!

A well deserved social hour for a hard working team! #Fall2024

Congratulations are in order for Ying & Usama for being among the winners of IRCM scholarships at M.Sc. level! We are proud of you both! Also in this photo are Dr. Malleshaiah, Usama’s co-supervisor, and Sanidhya in his lab, who also obtained the award.

We had a great time at the IRCM forum in the beautiful Mont Trembland. Ying and Usama got a chance to present their project concepts and receive valuable feedback from our scientific community.

Very proud of Thea for obtaining Summer Undergrad Research in Engineering from McGill University and fullfilling a productive internship.

Who says lab meetings can't be fun? We had a great time eating and doing exercises to know each other better.

Welcoming Thea and Shaheena (B.Sc. interns) and Usama (M.Sc. student) to the team!

Congratulations to all the awardees of IRCM scholarships, including our own Ying! Well done.

We proudly advocate for stem cell research at the parliament. #researchCanada #stemcellnetwork

Bringing awareness to challenges people with T1D face during daily lives. More reason to continue our research on novel therapies and potential cures.

A new Montreal lab wants to pave the way to a cure for Type 1 diabetes (2023).

https://www.montrealgazette.com/business/article45973.html#storylink=cpy

We are very proud of our two new grad students, Thea and Noah for winning IRCM scholarships.

Please read a recent review by Usama et al on the success and challenges of stem cell islet therapy for the treatment of Type 1 Diabetes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40831568/

This summer (20205) we welcomed Gloria (research assistant), Giselle (Undergrad intern), and Noah (M.Sc. student) to our team! We are happy to have you onboard!

Congradulations to Ying for winning the award for best oral presentation at the IRCM scientific forum, June 2025.

We are very proud of our summer undergrad, Giselle (on the left) for winning the prestigious student award from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and fulfilling a very successful internship in summer 2025. We are glad you are staying in the lab for 2 more semesters.

Celebrating the end of a fun and productive year! Wishing you a relaxing break! #2025

Huge congratulations to Ying (in the middle), for transferring to PhD degree in November 2024. We are proud of your progress.

Ying has obtained a scholarship from the Canadian Islet Research and Trainee Network. Congratulations for being recognized by the islet biology community in Canada.

Usama's presentation aiming at bringing awareness to type 1 diabetes won first prize in IRCM science POP and advanced to provincial level! We are proud of you!

A well deserved social hour for a hard working team! #Fall2024

Congratulations are in order for Ying & Usama for being among the winners of IRCM scholarships at M.Sc. level! We are proud of you both! Also in this photo are Dr. Malleshaiah, Usama’s co-supervisor, and Sanidhya in his lab, who also obtained the award.

We had a great time at the IRCM forum in the beautiful Mont Trembland. Ying and Usama got a chance to present their project concepts and receive valuable feedback from our scientific community.

Very proud of Thea for obtaining Summer Undergrad Research in Engineering from McGill University and fullfilling a productive internship.

Who says lab meetings can't be fun? We had a great time eating and doing exercises to know each other better.

Welcoming Thea and Shaheena (B.Sc. interns) and Usama (M.Sc. student) to the team!

Congratulations to all the awardees of IRCM scholarships, including our own Ying! Well done.

We proudly advocate for stem cell research at the parliament. #researchCanada #stemcellnetwork

Bringing awareness to challenges people with T1D face during daily lives. More reason to continue our research on novel therapies and potential cures.

A new Montreal lab wants to pave the way to a cure for Type 1 diabetes (2023).

https://www.montrealgazette.com/business/article45973.html#storylink=cpy