Michael V. Sefton is a University Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry and the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto. He has been active in the preparation of blood-compatible materials through heparinization, the microencapsulation of mammalian cells in synthetic polymers, and various strategies for vascularizing tissue constructs. He was Director of the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto from 1999-2005 and President of the US Society For Biomaterials in 2006. He is currently Executive Director of Medicine by Design, http://mbd.utoronto.ca/. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto (1971) and MIT (1974) and has been at the University of Toronto since 1974.
He received the Acta Biomaterialia Gold award in 2011 and the Terumo Global Science prize in 2016 (among others). He was elected an international member of the US National Academy of Medicine in 2014 and the US National Academy of Engineering in 2020. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2018.