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CBB member Melanie Campbell delivers a public lecture "The eye, a window on the brain” at THEMUSEUM in downtown Kitchener on March 3. She presented her unique perspective on how the properties of light can be harnessed to image the human eye and diagnose a variety of diseases, including Alzheimer’s and diabetes [Science News]

Catherine Burns, CBB Director, is the closing keynote at Grand River Hospital's 2016 Physicians Education Days conference held May 5, 2016; presenting a lecture about the "Future Use of Technology in Geriatric Care".

The funding for Strategic Partnership Grants announced by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) helps bring expertise from academia and industry together to collaborate on research that will lead to innovation and commercialization. CBB researchers that were recently awarded are:

Bill Anderson's research group were finalists for the "Innovation Award" for the Techalliance of Southwestern Ontario.  His start-up company Genemis Laboratories Inc (developed in his research group by a Research Associate, Dr.

Over eighty industry and University of Waterloo (UW) researchers assembled at the University of Waterloo to discover some of the latest developments in science and engineering underlying today’s innovations in biomaterials and biomanufacturing. Organized by the Centre for Bioengineering

CBB member Bill Anderson and Chemical Engineering Professor leads an industry research partnership to develop new technology for capturing hospital anesthetic gases. This new technology will help battle climate change as it captures waste anesthetic gases exhaled by patients undergoing surgery.

Lora Giangregorio, Kinesiology professor and team wins prestigious Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health. A leading expert in bone health and exercise, her research is transforming the way clinicians, physiotherapists and patients manage osteoporosis.

Catherine Burns was elected as a Fellow to the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) during the annual meeting held October 26-30 in California.

Election to Fellow status is awarded by distinguished colleagues to recognize outstanding achievement, consistently superior professional performance, exceptional contributions, personal service to the Society, and other meritorious accomplishments by Society Members.

Shawn Wettig, CBB member and Pharmacy Professor received funding from the Ride for Dad foundation who has committed $104,000 to help Wettig and his collaborators fine-tune a treatment that utilizes irradiated gold nanoparticles to target prostate cancer - one the most common cancer among Canadian men.

Zhou Wang, CBB member and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Waterloo, has won an Engineering Emmy® Award for developing computational models that accurately and consistently predict how people view image and video quality.

The Engineering Emmy recognizes the team for its creation of Structural Similarity (SSIM), a mathematical formula and computer algorithm that is now widely used throughout the television industry.