Dr. Karim Karim and his partner, Amol Karnick, at KA Imaging, a University of Waterloo spin-off company, received one of six $1 Million Grand Challenges Canada awards on Friday, July 22, 2016. This significant financial support is to continue development and testing of an innovative low-cost, high resolution digital X-ray imager for use in developing countries to improve global health. Results demonstrated that the KA Imager achieve the same level of accuracy as conventional imagers, at a lower X-ray dose and cost. Karim notes that “It's something that could benefit Canadians right here because we have a fair number of northern communities who could benefit from technology like this."
The new investment, matched by partners, the University of Waterloo, Christie Medical Holdings, Delft Imaging Systems, and Ontario Centres of Excellence, will enable KA Imaging to build and test their prototype.
Karim, Chief Technical Officer at KA Imaging, is an Associate Director of CBB and professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Christie Medical, one of the matching investment partners, is represented on CBB’s advisory board by George Pinho.
Congratulations to Karim and a big thank you to Christie Medical Holdings!
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