Events

Dr. Clayton (Clay) J. Radke

Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Vision Science at the University California (Berkeley)

Title: Solute Partitioning and Diffusion in Hydrogels: Fundamentals of Drug and Comfort-Agent Delivery

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CBB CREATE Series: Ethical By Design Workshop

Speaker: Dr. Jen Boger, Assistant Professor, SYDE, University of Waterloo.

Dr. Jongho Lee

Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia

IP Series events are open to all UW faculty, staff, students and post docs. Registration is required to ensure there is enough pizza and pop for all!

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Workshop are presented by WatCo and supported by the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB), the Games Institute, and Cryptoworks21 at the University of Waterloo.

Data Driven Biomedical Applications of AI

Events are open to industry, faculty and post docs - please register to attend to ensure there is enough pizza for everyone!

The goals of the events are to: 

• Connect researchers to promote interdisciplinary research team building and be proactive for major grant opportunities.
• Provide a venue to highlight Waterloo’s research and understand the challenges faced and being pursued by industry.

How can AI can be used to support patient care and system improvements?

Theme applications include:

• Intelligent telemetry for improving monitoring and home care support for patients and families and healthcare providers
• Natural language processing of medical records to identify probability of cancer recurrence
• Personalized transfer learning
• Computational models of emotional alignment between older adults with dementia, care partners, and technological assistants
• Multi-sensor integration and IoT for community health

Keynote speaker:

• Yuri Quintana, Ph.D., Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School

University of Waterloo Speakers

• Mohammad Kohandel, Applied Mathematics
• Helen Chen, School of Public Health and Health Systems
• Pascal Poupart, Computer Science
• Plinio Morita, School of Public Health and Health Systems
• Moojan Ghafurian, Post-doc, Computer Science

Industry Speakers

• Baozhen Shan, Bioinformatics Solutions
• Colin Phipps  - AbbVie
• Fernando Suarez – IBM (Watson Health)

Agenda and more details can be found on our Faculty Research Networking Events page.

The Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology and the University of Waterloo Office of Research Ethics are pleased to host an information session with Clinical Trials Ontario.

Clinical Trials Ontario (CTO) representatives will detail

COVID-19 has shaken the world, challenging societies and altering life as we know it. But from this crisis, opportunities have emerged calling us to action as we prepare to reboot from the COVID-19 lockdown.

COVID-19 has shaken the world, challenging societies and altering life as we know it. But from this crisis, opportunities have emerged calling us to action as we prepare to reboot from the COVID-19 lockdown.

COVID-19 has shaken the world, challenging societies and altering life as we know it. But from this crisis, opportunities have emerged calling us to action as we prepare to reboot from the COVID-19 lockdown.