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In the Fall term of 2022, students from the Master’s programs, Biomedical Engineering and Technical Medicine, at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, visited the University of Waterloo. The Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB) was honoured to host this amazing group of students who also visited leading universities in Canada and the U.S.A., on a study tour that they called ‘Wahweenga’. Wahweenga translates to ‘perfection' in the native Ojibwe language, an Algonk language spoken by indigenous people of Canada and the central north of the U.S.A. This tour was focused on answering one question: ‘How do the technical (bio)medical sectors of Canada and the U.S.A. strive towards perfection?’

This fall, the University of Waterloo’s Health Initiatives team launched the Graham Seed Fund (GSF) and invited researchers to submit their proposals for innovative health-care solutions. The GSF strengthens the University’s health system partnerships by providing resources for collaborating directly with a full range of health providers and clinicians. Ten research proposals have been selected from the 34 that were received.

Congratulations to CBB member, Professor Carolyn Ren who is the new Canada Research Chair in Microfluidic Technologies with $1.4 million in funding over seven years.

Congratulations to CBB member, Professor Juewen Liu for being recognised as part of the top 1% of scientists for the first time, on the exclusive

Stanford University recently published a comprehensive list identifying the top 2% of scientists worldwide. The list provides a ranking of 100,000 top scientists using citation metrics to determine the relevance and importance of a given research topic. Congratulations to the 36 CBB members who have been recognized as part of these top scientists:
 

Catherine Burns

Melanie Campbell

Congratulations to Professor Norman Zhou, who has been recognised nationally as the winner of the prestigious Synergy Award for Innovation from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Shirley Tang, a CBB member and professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been named among the top 100 most powerful women in Canada for her research impact and empowering women in STEM by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN).

Congratulations to the newly elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada — Fellows that include our very own CBB members:

Alexander Wong, a CBB member and professor in systems design engineering at Waterloo, has been elected as a new fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

We are proud to announce the appointment of Professor Clark Dickerson as Interim Executive Director, Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology from July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. Clark Dickerson is a Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo and a Canada Research Chair of Shoulder Mechanics.