Mohammad Simchi honoured by CMC Microsystems

Mohammad Simchi, a postdoctoral fellow in U of T's Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, has received the 2025 Douglas R. Colton Award for Research Excellence.

Presented annually by CMC Microsystems, the award recognizes excellence in Canadian micro-nano research and honours the organization’s founding president. It includes a monetary prize of $4,500 and is open to individuals who have completed a master’s or PhD degree at a Canadian university within the previous three calendar years.

Simchi, who completed his PhD at U of T, is developing SHOTS (Scalable High-yield On-demand Therapeutics Synthesis), a compact, automated system designed to produce essential medicines near the point of care.

With a field-ready prototype already deployed in South America, his work aims to enable rapid, reliable production of lifesaving biologics in frontline clinical settings.

Read about the Douglas R. Colton Award for Research Excellence