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Marc Aucoin

Chemical Engineering, Professor, Associate Chair, Operations
Marc Aucoin
519-888-4567 x36084, 519-888-4567 x38835, 519-888-4567 x32295
Location: E6 4012, e6 4113, e6 603

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[YouTube Lecture] September 30, 2014 "Tools and strategies for complex biologics production in animal cells: applications to insect and mammalian cell culture"

[YouTube] January 26, 2011 "Research Profile: Marc Aucoin"

Link to profile: Marc Aucoin

Hassan Baaj

Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor, Associate Chair for Research
Hassan Baaj
519-888-4494
Location: E2 2346A
Link to profile: Hassan Baaj

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

Emmanuel Ho

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

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[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

John Honek

Chemistry, Professor
John Honek
519-888-4567 x35817
Location: ESC 346

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

Link to profile: John Honek
Link to personal webpage: John Honek

Vassili Karanassios

Chemistry
Vassili Karanassios
Location: C2 277

Research Interests:

  • Micro and nano-analytical chemistry
  • Micro and nano samples
  • Micro-miniaturization (lab-on-a-chip)

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[YouTube] June 7, 2013 "Energy scavenging to power remote sensors"

Link to profile: Vassili Karanassios

Mohammad Kohandel

Applied Mathematics
Mohammad Kohandel
519-888-4567 x35458
Location: MC 6112

Research Interests:

  • Integrative cancer biology
  • Combination of cancer treatments
  • Nano-scale drug delivery
  • Cancer stem cells
  • Biomechanics

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[Waterloo News] June 23, 2016 "Nanotechnology and math deliver two-in-one punch for cancer therapy resistance"

[Waterloo Stories] February 11, 2015 "Study finds new lethal combination of cancer drugs shrinks tumors"

[Waterloo Stories] January 16, 2018 "Math can predict how cancer cells evolve"

Link to profile: Mohammad Kohandel
Link to personal webpage: Mohammad Kohandel

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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[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

Kam Tong Leung

Chemistry
K. Tong Leung
519-888-4567, ext. 35826
Location: C2 061A

Research Interests:

  • Green energy: solar cells and hydrogen generation

  • Biosensing and environmental remediation using hybrid nanomaterials
  • Quantum electronics
  • Surface chemical physics
  • Ultra-large scale computational chemistry
Link to profile: Kam Tong Leung
Link to personal webpage: Kam Tong Leung

Peter Levine

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Peter Levine
519-888-4567 x31414
Location: E5 4012

Research Interests:

  • Integrated microsystems for clinical and environmental monitoring

  • Combining complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits with novel materials, structures, or devices to enable non-traditional life science and bio-diagnostic applications

  • CMOS-integrated biochemical assays

  • Semiconductor integrated circuits and sensors, design and test of 3D integrated circuits

  • Micro/nano fabrication, lab-on-a-chip devices

  • Electrochemical biosensors

  • Electrophysiology

  • DNA sequencing

  • Image sensors

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Link to profile: Peter M. Levine
Link to personal webpage: Peter Levine

Juewen Liu

Chemistry
Juewen Liu
519-888-4567 x38919
Location: QNC 5604

Research Interests:

  • Biomedical diagnosis

  • Targeted drug delivery

  • Environmental monitoring

  • DNA-based biosensors and functional polymers

  • Nanomaterials, (gold nanoparticles, liposomes, magnetic nanoparticles, quantum dots, graphene hydrogels, hybrid nanomaterials)

  • Bioinorganic / Bioanalytical chemistry

University Research Chair

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[Waterloo Stories] February 27, 2013 "Waterloo researcher uses nano-materials to clean water"

Link to profile: Juewen Liu
Link to personal webpage: Juewen Liu

Yilan Liu

Engineering
Yilan Liu
519-888-4567 x40641
Location: E6 4018

Research Interests:

  • Synthetic biology for sustainable development
  • Functional probiotics for affordable and preventive health solutions
  • Biomanufacturing
  • Genetic tools exploring
  • Bio-nanoparticles
  • Bio-upcycling of mixed waste for sustainable development
  • Dynamic regulation of bioprocess
  • Biodegradation and Bioremediation

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Yilan Liu

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

Vivek Maheshwari

Chemistry
V. Maheshwari
519-888-4567 x38885
Location: QNC 5619

Research Interests:

  • High Resolution flexible pressure and tactile sensors

  • Microbial fuel cells

  • Nano electrodes for electrochemical detection

  • Flexible Electrodes for bio-interfacing, electrical mapping self-powered devices

  • Cell-inorganic composites
  • Multi-functional materials and devices
  • Wearable sensors
  • Composite membranes
Link to profile: Vivek Maheshwari
Link to personal webpage: Vivek Maheshwari

Dale Martin

Biology
Dale Martin
519-888-4567 x36958
Location: B1 291C

Research interests:

  • Neurodegeneration
  • Huntington Disease
  • Autophagy
  • Apoptosis
  • Fatty acylation

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Dale Martin
Link to personal webpage: Dale Martin

Tizazu Mekonnen

Chemical Engineering
Tizazu Mekonnen
519-888-4567 x38914
Location: E6 5010

Research Interests:

  • Bioplastics
  • Polymer blends and composites
  • Polymer modifications and processing
  • Rubber processing and modifications
  • Biodegradable and compostable polymers
  • Nanostructured polymers
  • Polymer structure-property and applications development
  • Dispersion Rheology & dynamics of colloidal nanomaterials

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Tizazu Mekonnen
Link to personal webpage: Tizazu Mekonnen

Kevin Musselman

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Kevin Musselman
519-888-4567 x36740
Location: E5 3013

Research Interests:

  • Nanomaterials
  • Spatial atomic layer deposition
  • Photovoltaic solar cells
  • Nanoelectronics and sensors
  • Electrochemistry
  • Connectivity and Internet of Things
  • Nanotechnology
  • IoT
  • Devices

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Kevin Musselman
Link to personal webpage: Kevin Musselman

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

Parsin Haji Reza

Systems Design Engineering
Parsin Haji Reza
519-888-4567 x40172
Location: E7 6416

Research Interests

  • Early Cancer Detection
  • Eliminating Positive Surgical Margins
  • Non-contact Biopsies for Endoscopy 
  • Functional Brain Imaging 
  • Early Detection and Understanding the Age-related Vision Loss Problems
  • Wound Care
  • Cardiovascular
  • Machine learning/AI

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Link to profile: Parsin Haji Reza
Link to personal webpage: Parsin Haji Reza

Matthew Scott

Applied Mathematics
Matthew Scott
519-888-4567 x35454
Location: MC 6114

Research Interests:

  • Experimental biological physics
  • Stochastic processes in physics and biology
  • Pysiological constraints on bioproduct synthesis

Lab Equipment: Imagestream MkII with 488nm, 642nm and 785nm lasers; 60x magnification

[YouTube Lectures] Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology 2015

Link to profile: Matthew Scott
Link to personal webpage: Matthew Scott

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

Roderick Slavcev

School of Pharmacy
Roderick Slavcev
519-888-4567 x21301
Location: PHR 4003

Research Interests:

  • Drug discovery, delivery systems and nanomedicine

  • Gene therapy, microbial genetics

  • Oncology, Antiviral therapeutics design

  • Anti-bacterials

  • Acne cosmeceutical design

  • Phage-based biotechnology

  • Viral exclusion systems

  • Cosmeceuticals

  • Vaccine design (dementia), bacteriophage-based biotechnology, use of coliphages to design and construct vectors for the development of novel vaccines, pharmaceuticals and gene delivery systems, and the identification and application of novel phage genomic anti-bacterial genes with potential phage therapy applications.

  • Strategic management in Pharmacy; healthcare reform

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Link to profile: Roderick Slavcev
Link to personal webpage: Roderick Slavcev

Madjid Soltani

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Michael Tam

Chemical Engineering
Photo: M. Tam
519-888-4567 x38339
Location: QNC 5617

Research Interests:

  • Enhanced drug delivery systems, gene therapy

  • Associative polymers for environmentally friendly coatings

  • Sustainable nanomaterials (cellulose nanocrystals)

  • Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) and stimuli responsive polymeric systems

  • Polymer-surfactant interactions

  • Magnetic nanoparticles for novel separation processes

University Research Chair

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Michael K.C. Tam
Link to personal webpage: Michael Tam

Shirley Tang

Chemistry
S.Tang
519-888-4567 x38037
Location: QNC 4618

Research Interests:

  • Nanomaterials, nanodevices, biosensors for applications in food processing, bioreactors and biotechnology, natural gas purification, fuel cell, and water purification

  • Nano-Bio Hybrids for Tissue Engineering and Medicine for drug delivery, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

  • Bio-molecule assisted nanomaterial self-assembly

  • Health and environmental effects of engineered nanomaterials

Link to profile: Shirley Tang
Link to personal webpage: Shirley Tang

Scott Taylor

Chemistry
S.Taylor
519-888-4567 x33325
Location: C2 388

Research Interests:

  • Medicinal chemistry/enzymology (treatment of prostate and breast cancer, diabetes)

  • Nanomedicine; development of novel antibiotics

  • Bionanomaterials; synthetic polymers and methodologies

  • Peptide, charbohydrate, nucleoside and nucleotide chemistry

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

[Science News] February 4, 2015 "Chemists develop new method to improve the discovery of antibiotics"

Link to profile: Scott Taylor
Link to personal webpage: Scott Taylor

John Wen

Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering
John Wen
519-888-4567 x38362
Location: E3 3151

Research Interests:

  • Renewable energy technologies
  • Biofuel combustion, biomass gasification, combustion generated particulates
  • CO2 capture and storage
  • Synthesis, characterization and applications of nanomaterial
  • Developing nanothermite and energetic nanocomposites
  • EPD fabrication of nanotube and nanowire based electrodes for advanced energy devices
  • Engineering thermodynamics
  • Energy conversion

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Link to profile: John Z. Wen
Link to personal webpage: John Wen

Shawn Wettig

School of Pharmacy
Shawn Wettig
519-888-4567 x21303
Location: PHR 4012

Research Interests:

  • Gene therapy and drug delivery systems (prostate and ovarian cancer treatment)

  • Polymeric nanomaterials, biopolymers

  • Novel surface active compounds (gemini surfactants)

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

[CBB researcher story] July 21, 2015 "Vectors for gene therapy and improving drug solubility"

Link to profile: Shawn Wettig
Link to personal webpage: Shawn Wettig

Yimin Wu

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Yimin Wu
519-888-4567 x40185
Location: E7 3418

Research interests:

  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • Materials Interfaces
  • Energy Materials
  • Solar Fuels
  • CO2 reduction
  • Ammonia synthesis
  • Batteries
  • Plastic recycling and upcycling
  • In situ Multimodal Characterizations
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Connectivity and Internet of Things
  • Electronic and Photonic Materials
  • Responsive Materials
  • Neuromorphic Computing
  • Flexible Electronics and Soft Robotics
  • Sensing
  • Healthcare
  • Nanotechnology
Link to profile: Yimin Wu

Mustafa Yavuz

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Professor, Director, Graduate Nanotechnology Program
Mustafa Yavuz
519-888-4567 x32093
Location: E5 3011
Link to profile: Mustafa Yavuz
Link to personal webpage: Nano and Micro Systems Lab

Jung-Ho Yu

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