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Ryan Tennant, a PhD student from the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, hosted a hands-on workshop for staff and students on August 27, 2023, where participants learned how to build their own affordable air purifier with performance comparable to commercial models.

How do we bridge machine learning with clinical decision making for better patient outcomes?

You are invited to the virtual health data seminar on Wednesday, March 22, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm ET.

This past fall 2022, the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology invited researchers to submit their proposals to the annual Seed Funding competition. The mission of the CBB seed fund is to help drive scientific innovation, growth, and opportunity through the support of collaborative research across UW faculties.  Congratulations to the award recipients for Round 6. Learn more about previous Seed Fund recipients.

Recognizing the need for transformative solutions in an evolving healthcare landscape, Velocity is building a globally competitive platform for startups to commercialize health technology. This expansion provides world-class support to even more health startups in Canada. 

In the Fall term of 2022, students from the Master’s programs, Biomedical Engineering and Technical Medicine, at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, visited the University of Waterloo. The Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB) was honoured to host this amazing group of students who also visited leading universities in Canada and the U.S.A., on a study tour that they called ‘Wahweenga’. Wahweenga translates to ‘perfection' in the native Ojibwe language, an Algonk language spoken by indigenous people of Canada and the central north of the U.S.A. This tour was focused on answering one question: ‘How do the technical (bio)medical sectors of Canada and the U.S.A. strive towards perfection?’