Caitlin Maikawa

Professor Caitlin Maikawa is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include polymer biomaterials, drug delivery, and stimuli-responsive materials. Her lab works on developing dynamic polymer systems that interface with our body’s biology in order to improve biopharmaceutical delivery.

Before joining the BME faculty in 2023, she was a 2022 Schmidt Science Fellow and did her postdoctoral training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital with Prof. Jeffrey Karp and Prof. Yuhan Lee. She completed her PhD training with Prof. Eric Appel at Stanford University and received her undergraduate degree (chemical engineering) at the University of Toronto.