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