News

HeadFirst, a velocity Start-Up, is gaining a lot of attention. And it all started with a biomedical engineering capstone project supervised by Chemical Engineering professors!!!

Check out the Globe and Mail article "Could a saliva test detect concussions? A Waterloo biotech startup goes for that goal", CTV News report "Waterloo company says it can detect concussions through saliva".

Many congratulations on completing your PhD!

Apparently Twitter is no longer free - so here is a recap of what has been posted there in the last 6 months!

First, big CONGRATULATIONS to Debbie Pushparjah and Andrew Ng for both defending their MSc in Pharmacy last term! Very proud of these two individuals who produced great theses on working with novel Virus-Like Particles.

Second, Happy New Year! Can't wait to see what our group will accomplish in 2023!

It seems like the news section of this website has been a little forgotten. A lot of the news from the lab in the last six months has been shared via twitter @AppliedVirus. Over the last 6 months we have strengthened out group having had 4 PhD candidates from our group successfully complete their comprehensive exams. The group has also published a number of manuscripts, which is also great. A special shout-out to Matt Patton who joined our team for the summer and worked as a research assistant full time.

Congratulations to Megan Logan on succesfully defending her PhD thesis entitled: Development of a Serum-Free Chemically Defined Medium for Adherent and Suspension Culture!!!

Congratulations! to Aaron who is featured by UW: check it out here! 

Congratulations to Mark Bruder on succesfully defending his PhD thesis entitled: Toward Optimization of the Baculovirus Expression Vector System - Development of Genetic Tools to Improve Biologics Production. 

Welcome to Irene Rodriguez Ruiz-Andino, who joined our group working on the detection of microbial contaminants in collaboration with Prof. Emeritus Bill Anderson!

Congratulations to Sara Haghayegh Khorasani for successfully defending her PhD proposal entitled "Effects of The Micro-environment on Bacteriophage M13 vector performance" and passing her comprehensive exam!