Christopher M. Yip

Biography

Professor Yip joined the University of Toronto in 1997 after completing his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota in 1996. He spent one year as a post-doctoral fellow at Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis. He received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1988 and worked for Dupont Canada for 3 years before starting his graduate work at Minnesota. Professor Christopher Yip is the Director of the University of Toronto’s Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, a tri-Faculty Institute. Professor Yip currently serves on the Institute Advisory Board for the Institute of Genetics at CIHR, was the past Section Co-Chair of the NSERC Evaluation Group for Materials and Chemical Engineering, and is a standing member on the NIH Biophysics of Neural Systems Study Section. Professor Yip enjoys endurance events, including multi-day mountain bike stage races, and trail running. He has completed 18 marathons including New York (twice) and Boston (three times) and has a marathon PB of 3:07, and a half-marathon PB of 1:28.

Research Interest

Fundamental Mechanisms of Molecular Self-Assembly