Lockheed Martin has invested $1.1 million into a research project that explores the design and feasibility of a mobile system that would reduce the work required by the heart and cardiac system for people engaging in a sustained period of exercise.
Alexander Wong the Canada Research Chair in Medical Imaging Systems, and his team in collaboration with clinical researchers at Sunnybrook Health Sciences, have introduced a breakthrough strategy to quicker and more effective cancer identification.
Wong and his team are the recipients of two Magna Cum Laude awards presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Imaging Network of Ontario held in Toronto at the end of March.
CBB member Marc Aucoin joins other Waterloo researchers from the faculties of Science, Engineering and Applied Health Sciences to discuss the science behind the Zika virus on March 10, 2016. (For more information and to register)
CBB member Melanie Campbell delivers a public lecture "The eye, a window on the brain” at THEMUSEUM in downtown Kitchener on March 3. She presented her unique perspective on how the properties of light can be harnessed to image the human eye and diagnose a variety of diseases, including Alzheimer’s and diabetes [Science News]
Catherine Burns, CBB Director, is the closing keynote at Grand River Hospital's 2016 Physicians Education Days conference held May 5, 2016; presenting a lecture about the "Future Use of Technology in Geriatric Care".
The funding for Strategic Partnership Grants announced by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) helps bring expertise from academia and industry together to collaborate on research that will lead to innovation and commercialization. CBB researchers that were recently awarded are:
Bill Anderson's research group were finalists for the "Innovation Award" for the Techalliance of Southwestern Ontario. His start-up company Genemis Laboratories Inc (developed in his research group by a Research Associate, Dr.
Over eighty industry and University of Waterloo (UW) researchers assembled at the University of Waterloo to discover some of the latest developments in science and engineering underlying today’s innovations in biomaterials and biomanufacturing. Organized by the Centre for Bioengineering
CBB member Bill Anderson and Chemical Engineering Professor leads an industry research partnership to develop new technology for capturing hospital anesthetic gases. This new technology will help battle climate change as it captures waste anesthetic gases exhaled by patients undergoing surgery.
Lora Giangregorio, Kinesiology professor and team wins prestigious Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health. A leading expert in bone health and exercise, her research is transforming the way clinicians, physiotherapists and patients manage osteoporosis.