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Gladimir Baranoski

Computer Science, Professor
Gladimir Baranoski
519-888-4567 x35412
Location: DC 3520
Link to profile: Gladimir Baranoski
Link to personal webpage: Gladimir Baranoski

Jennifer Boger

Systems Design Engineering, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Jordan Cannon

Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Assistant Professor
Jordan Cannon
519-888-4567 x43216
Location: BMH 1046
Link to profile: Jordan Cannon
Link to personal webpage: Google Scholar

Helen Chen

School of Public Health Sciences, Professor
Helen Chen
519-888-4567 x32131
Location: TJB 2272

Google Scholar

[Waterloo Stories] July 10, 2017 "Waterloo software improves care for kidney patients"

[CBB researcher story] July 21, 2015 "Data management in Health Care"

Link to profile: Helen Chen
Link to personal webpage: Helen Chen

David Edwards

School of Pharmacy, Professor
David Edwards
519-888-4567, ext.21315
Location: PHR 3009
Link to profile: David Edwards

Marianna Foldvari

School of Pharmacy, Professor
M. Foldvari
519-888-4567 x21306
Location: PHR 3003

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[Global Impact] [CBC] April 30, 2018 "Working with gene therapy to treat glaucoma"

[Waterloo Stories] July 5, 2012 "Revolutionary drug delivery"

Link to profile: Marianna Foldvari
Link to personal webpage: Marianna Foldvari

Kelly Grindrod

School of Pharmacy, Associate Professor
Kelly Grindrod
519-888-4567 x21358
Location: PHR 4014

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​[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners

​[Waterloo Stories] November 16, 2016 "The opioid crisis: How pharmacists can help save lives"

Link to profile: Kelly Grindrod
Link to personal webpage: Kelly Grindrod

Sheereen Harris

Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Assistant Professor
Sheereen Harris
519-888-4567 x42252
Location: BMH 1054
Link to profile: Sheereen Harris

Emmanuel Ho

School of Pharmacy, Associate Professor
Emmanuel Ho
519-888-4567 x21372
Location: PHR 4002

Google Scholar

[Waterloo News] February 6, 2019 "Researchers find new treatment for Chlamydia"

[Waterloo News] April 16, 2018 "Developing new way to fight transmission of HIV"

Link to profile: Emmanuel Ho
Link to personal webpage: Emmanuel Ho

Lyndon Jones

Optometry and Vision Science
Lyndon Jones
(519) 888-4567 ext. 35030
Location: OPT 375

Research Interests:

  • Clinical trial design
  • Contact lens performance
  • Drug delivery
  • Ocular biomaterials
  • Proteins at interfaces

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University Research Chair

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Link to profile: Lyndon Jones

Jonathan Kusins

Systems Design Engineering, Assistant Professor

Anita Layton

Applied Mathematics
Anita Layton
(519) 888-4567 ext. 36467
Location: MC 6516

Research Interests:

  • Integrative kidney physiology

  • Biofluid dynamics

  • Diabetes

  • Hypertension

Google Scholar

March 29, 2018 "Canada 150 Research Chair joins Department of Applied Mathematics"

Link to profile: Anita Layton
Link to personal webpage: Anita Layton

Zoya Leonenko

Physics and Astronomy
Zoia Leonenko
519 888-4567 ext. 38273
Location: PHY 354

Research Interests:

  • Biophysics of lipids and lipid-protein interactions

  • The role of structural changes and physical properties of lipid template in controlling biological processes and diseases

  • Biomedical nanotechnology (lipid films, molecular mechanism of Alzheimer's disease)

  • Drug development and delivery systems, antimicrobial peptides in lung disorders

  • Fluorescence and atomic force microscopy

  • Kelvin probe force microscopy and single molecule force spectroscopy

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Google Scholar

[Global Impact] May 2018, studying Alzheimer's at a molecular level to find a cure

[YouTube Lecture] October 1, 2014 "Scanning probe microscopy in biomedical research"

Link to profile: Zoya Leonenko
Link to personal webpage: Zoya Leonenko

Yang Lu

Computer Science
Yang Lu
519-888-4567 x40690
Location: DC 2627

Research interests:

  • Developing machine learning and statistical methods for genomics and proteomics data analysis using interpretable machine learning, reproducible (error-controlled) machine learning, and heterogeneous data integration
  • Developing interpretation methods to find scientifically interesting and statistically confident hypotheses from complex biological data from single-cell genomics, mass spectrometry-based proteomics, and metagenomics


 

Link to profile: Yang Lu
Link to personal webpage: Yang Lu

Veronika Magdanz

Systems Design Engineering
Veronika Magdanz
519-888-4567 x41532
Location: E7 6432

Research Interests:

  • microrobots

  • sperm cells
  • magnetic actuation
  • remote control
  • wireless
  • soft robots
  • medical robots
  • bioprinting
  • 3D printing

We develop microrobots for medical applications. The goal is to develop more targeted, active, but less invasive strategies for drug or cell delivery with the help of wireless, autonomously moving microrobots. One strategy is to combine biological elements with artificial components in a biohybrid approach. The biological component (cells, molecules) can serve as power source, loading unit or structural unit.

One example is the "spermbot" - a sperm cell remotely controlled with magnetic fields: https://phys.org/news/2014-01-sperm-bots-desired-video.html
Another example is IRONSperm: a magnetically functionalized nonmotile sperm driven by magnetic fields:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aba5855

Inspired by the motion of sperm, we also develop small scale flexible magnetic robots for noninvasive surgery (coming soon). I am also interested in reproductive biology and research that elucidates reasons for infertility. We look into the mechanisms of sperm migration and some interesting phenomena, such as sperm bundling (publication online soon)

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Link to profile: Veronika Magdanz
Link to personal webpage: Veronika Magdanz

Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens

Kinesiology
Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens
519-888-4567, ext. 46615
Location: BMH 1054

Research interests:

  • Aging and neurodegeneration
  • Movement disorders
  • Gait kinematics
  • Neuropsychology and neurocognitive assessment
  • Mood, emotion and cognition
  • Fear, threat, anxiety and depression
  • Virtual reality

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens

Stewart McLachlin

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Stewart McLachlin
519-888-4567 x44784
Location: E7 3424

Research interests:

  • Biomechanics
  • Orthopaedic surgery
  • Implant design
  • Bio-mechanical testing
  • Computational modeling
  • Computer-assisted surgery

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Stewart McLachlin
Link to personal webpage: Stewart McLachlin

Elizabeth Meiering

Chemistry
Elizabeth Meiering
519-888-4567, ext. 32254
Location: ESC 22

Research Interests:

  • Proteins: folding, misfolding and aggregation, structure, dynamics, and function
  • Protein engineering and design
  • Protein thermodynamics and kinetics
  • Biophysical chemistry and biochemistry
  • Bionanotechnology and biomaterials
  • Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • Smart Materials
  • Biomaterials, Polymers and Bioplastics
  • Theranostic Materials
  • Smart and Functional Materials
  • Molecular Therapeutics and Theranostics
  • Nanomaterials
  • Bionanotechnology and Biosensors
  • Soft Matter
  • Drug Discovery, Design and Delivery
  • Bioinformatics, Systematics and Evolution

​[Waterloo News] November 24, 2015 "New insights into protein structure could change the future of biomedicine"

[​Chemistry News] August 20, 2014 "Chemist Elizabeth Meiering takes on the ALS ice bucket challenge"

Link to profile: Elizabeth Meiering
Link to personal webpage: Elizabeth Meiering

Katja Mombaur

Systems Design Engineering
Katja Mombaur
519-888-4567 x40362
Location: E7 6448

Research Interests:

  • human-robot interaction
  • wearable robots
  • rehabilitation robots
  • intelligent assistive devices
  • humanoid robots
  • human movement analysis
  • optimal control
  • model-based control
  • multibody systems modeling
Link to profile: Katja Mombaur

Plinio Morita

School of Public Health Sciences
Plinio Morita
519-888-4567, ext. 41372
Location: TJB 2266

Research Interests:

  • mHealth and wearable technology design
  • Ubiquitous sensors for smart homes and remote patient monitoring
  • Big data and health data analytics
  • Technology to support longer independent living

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[MaRS] April 26, 2018 "UbiLab team wins Healthy Behaviour Data Challenge"

Link to profile: Plinio Pelegrini Morita
Link to personal webpage: Plinio Morita

Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam

Systems Design Engineering
K.  Ponnambalam
519-888-4567 x43282
Location: E7 6316

Research Interests:

  • Application of intelligent systems (hydrology, water resources, decision making in health, control of satellite communications, fault detection analysis)

  • Optimization
  • Mathematical programming, decision making under uncertainty
  • Data mining

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Link to profile: Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam
Link to personal webpage: Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam

Mahla Poudineh

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mahla Poudineh
519-888-4567 x33319
Location: QNC 3622

Research interests:

  • Real-time bio-sensing approaches for detection of small molecules
  • Microfluidic-based integrated devices for therapeutics and diagnostics purposes
  • Implantable micro-devices for cancer treatment
  • Circulating tumor cell phenotypic characterization
  • Stem cell profiling and characterization
  • Translating biomedical devices for clinical use
  • Silicon micro-machining for developing bio-MEMS and bio-NEMS devices

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Mahla Poudineh
Link to personal webpage: Mahla Poudineh

Carolyn Ren

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Carolyn Ren
519-888-4567 x38233, 519-888-4567 x33030
Location: E3 2108G, E3 4105
Contact for: Expertise in microfluidics, Lab-on-a-Chip technology, protein and DNA separation towards disease diagnosis and drug discovery, living cell analysis and water toxicity testing.

Research Interests:

  • Protein and DNA separation analysis towards disease diagnosis and drug discovery

  • Biosensing and Devices (bacterial, proteins, fluorescence)

  • Living cell analysis and water toxicity testing

  • Lab-on-a-Chip technology (point-of-care biomedical diagnosis , chemical detection, protein separation and identification, environmental testing)

  • Micro-scale fluid mechanics, droplet microfluidics and nanofluidics

  • High Throughput Screening For Drug Screening
  • Manufacturing Nanomaterials and Carbon Management

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Canada Research Chair in Lab-on-a-Chip Technology [Canada Research Chair Profile]

[Waterloo Stories] June 14, 2012 "Creating the tiny future of science"

Link to profile: Carolyn Ren
Link to personal webpage: Carolyn Ren

George Shaker

Electrical & Computer Engineering
George Shaker
+1 519-498-5173
Location: EIT 3123

Alternate Location:

  • Satellite Campus, UW-Schlegel Research Institute for Aging, Research Building, Sensors and Devices Lab

Research Interests:

  • Bio-wearable electronics and systems
  • Bio-electromagnetics, bio-technology, bio-sensors and energy harvesting systems
  • RF/microwave/millimeter wave/Terahertz (THz) circuits and antenna systems
  • Radio frequency (RF)/microwave packaging and Electromagnetic compatibility 
  • (EMC)/Electromagnetic interface (EMI) analyses
  • Vehicle and UAV wireless communications, navigation systems, and telematics systems
  • Complex propagation and scattering phenomena
  • Devices and novel electromagnetic materials and wireless sensors

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Awards:

  • Top downloaded paper in Medical Physics (arXiv) – October 2019
  • Best Imaging Paper, CVS, 2018
  • ACM MobileHCI 2017 Best Worskshop Paper Award
  • IEEE APS 2017 SPC Honorable Mention Paper Award
  • IEEE Sensors Most Popular Article (March 2017)
  • IEEE Sensors Annual Volume Cover Page

[CBB Events] November 15, 2019 "Professor Shaker organizes a Health Canada Regulatory insights Workshop"

[CNN] November 11, 2019 "Scientists develop sensor to save children and pets from hot car deaths"

[Waterloo News] October 29, 2019 "Advancing healthcare through innovative technology"

[Inside Digital Health] June 3, 2019 "Study: Radar Monitors Sleep with Accuracy Comparable to Current Standards"

[Waterloo News]  June 28, 2018 "AI and radar technologies could help diabetics manage their disease"

[Engineering News] June 28, 2018 "Researchers developing a prick-free glucose monitor"

[RD Magazine] June 28, 2018 "AI and Radar Technologies Could Help Diabetics Manage Their Disease

[Engineering News] July 5, 2016 "Waterloo wins big with tiny power device"

Link to profile: George Shaker
Link to personal webpage: George Shaker

Madjid Soltani

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Hamid Tizhoosh

Systems Design Engineering, Adjunct Professor
Hamid Tizhoosh
519-888-4567 x46751
Location: E2 1724D
Link to profile: Hamid Tizhoosh

James Tung

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
J. Tung
519-888-4567 x43445
Location: E7 3428

Research Interests:

  • Rehabilitation engineering and assistive technologies (gerontology, Osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, fall risk in stroke survivors, and rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury)

  • Neuromotor control

  • Biomedical signal analysis

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[Waterloo Stories] July 8, 2014 "GPS technology may help detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier"

Link to profile: James Tung

Karen Van Ooteghem

Kinesiology
Karen Van Ooteghem

Research interests:

  • Aging
  • Balance and mobility impairment
  • Central nervous system function
  • Wireless sensor technologies

[National Centre for Biotechnology Information] August 31, 2019 "Key factors for the assessment of mobility in advanced dementia: A consensus approach"

[Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative] September 26, 2019 "Wearable technologies to improve health outcomes in people with neurodegenerative diseases?"

Link to profile: Karen Van Ooteghem

Stan Woo

Optometry & Vision Science
Stan Woo
519-888-4567 x45914
Location: OPT 303

Research interests:

  • Vision rehabilitation
  • Systems for optimizing patient care outcomes
  • Retinal disease
  • Pharmacology.
Link to profile: Stan Woo

Evelyn Yim

Chemical Engineering
Evelyn Yim
519-888-4567 x33928
Location: E6 4014

Research Interests:

  • Stem cells, nanofabrication and advancement of biomaterials in healthcare technologies to repair, replace or regenerate damaged tissue and organ structures

  • Fabrication and application of nano-structure for biomedical applications in neural, vascular, and cornea tissue engineering

  • ​Biomaterial approach to study ex-vivo pluripotent stem cell expansion

  • Modulation of cell behavior with nanotopography

  • Topography-regulation of stem cells lineage commitment and differentiation

  • Differentiation of adult and pluripotent stem cells with nanotopography

Google Scholar

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Link to profile: Evelyn K.F. Yim
Link to personal webpage: Evelyn Yim

Jung-Ho Yu

Chemistry, Assistant Professor
Jung-Ho Yu
519-888-4567 x38172
Location: QNC 4614
Link to profile: Jung-Ho Yu