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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.

Edith Law was awarded a CIHR-NSERC Collaborative Health Research Project (CHRP) program grant of $145,000 per year for three years.

Professor Catherine Burns has been reappointed to a three-year term as Director of the Centre of Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB), according to an announcement by the Dean of Engineering, Pearl Sullivan and Dean of Science, Terry McMahon.

CBB members Slim Boumaiza (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Niels Bols (Biology) are two of eleven Waterloo researchers campus-wide to receive $5.3 million in funding from the Natural Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to work with industry on strategic research.

CBB member Trevor Charles, a professor of Biology in the Faculty of Science, received a Spark Award from the Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) for his highly innovative project in the area of bioplastics.

CBB member Scott Taylor along with his coworkers have develop a new method to improve the discovery of antibiotics. The new method is published in the journal Organic Letters.

[Science News]

On September 15th Murray Moo-Young presented an invited lecture at the opening plenary session of the 16th "IUPAC International Biotechnology Symposium & Exhibition"  (IBS) in Fortaleza, Brazil. The title of the talk was “The multidisciplinary nature of biotechnology: current concerns”.