A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the University of Waterloo and the University of Twente to establish an international, transatlantic data research network rooted in the combination of engineering and sciences with social and health sciences was signed at the Design Lab.
The University of Waterloo and the Medical Device Commercialization Centre (MDCC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. This will allow medical device technologies developed at Waterloo to access the services of MDCC.
CBB welcomes and is supporting the 18th CSChE (Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering) Quebec-Ontario Biotechnology Meeting held at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario on May 26-27, 2016.
Leaders in community health care, technology, research and entrepreneurship will gather next week to discuss the ways these areas intersect in medicine now and should in the future, while celebrating a milestone anniversary for one health-care facility in the region.
Congratulations to CBB members Drs. N. Chandrashekar, S. Acker, A. Laing, N. Jiang, J. Kofman, L. Giangregorio, and K. Grindrod in being awarded seed grant funding from the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact for the Chronic Disease Prevention Initiative (CDPI) competition for Spring 2015.
John McPhee heads the new $10 million Green and Intelligent Automotive (GAIA) research facility in the Faculty of Engineering with $1 million initial funding from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC). The Governments of Canada and Ontario are also providing $2.1 million each through the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund Research Infrastructure program.
Zoya Leonenko chair of the conference organizing committee, the Faculty of Science, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) and the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB) planned the three-day conference June 17-19 that brought industry and researchers together for the first Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Canada.
CBB member Helen Chen and team wins Infoway Innovation Award at e-Health 2015. The winning idea aims to increase access to cardiac rehab and was recognized for its Tele-Cardiac Rehab idea, which would provide patients with tools to help them manage cardiac rehab remotely and on their own time. Tele-Cardiac Rehab would eliminate common barriers that hinder compliance with cardiac rehab including travel time and work demands.
A new research centre at the University of Waterloo that will revolutionize the ability to predict and delay illness and injury associated with aging is receiving $1.3 million toward wireless wearables and other devices and technology. More than $4 million was awarded to four Waterloo teams including CBB member Bill McIlroy from Kinesiology: Advanced Aging ResearCH Centre (ARCH) to transform health and well-being of older adults.
Research2Reality is a new social media and television campaign by six of Canada’s top research institutions including the University of Waterloo that aims to bring high-impact university research to millions of Canadians.