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.