CBB will have an information booth at this Thursday's WE Innovate event organized by the Faculty of Engineering. The yearly event showcases the University's innovation and emerging research in Engineering, and will be hosted in the student design centre of Engineering 5 on campus from 4-7pm.
Waterloo Engineering hosted their annual awards celebration on October 4, 2012, and members of the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology were recipients.
Peter Huck, of civil and environmental engineering, received the En-hui Yang Engineering Research Innovation Award, an award that recognizes an outstanding researcher within Waterloo Engineering.
Centre Director, Catherine Burns, will meet with the Canadian Healthcare Human Factors Consortium at The Ottawa Hospital on November 5, 2012, followed by a plenary address at the Human Factors Workshop of Unmanned Systems "Solutions for Emerging Markets" on November 6, 2012 at the Ottawa Convention Centre.
Catherine Burns, Director of the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology, is set to speak at local Communitech Peer 2 Peer event on Tuesday, September 25, 2012 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm at the Communitech Hub in Kitchener, Ontario.
She will introduce the Centre and discuss how it can engage local industry and serve as a local resource in the life sciences technology area.
The Waterloo Commercialization Office (WatCo), working in partnership with Dr. Frank Gu, has filed a patent application on the biodegradable hydrogel device technology.
Dr. Gu and his team have developed a novel biodegradable device that targets the roots of plants and delivers what they need most, be it water, nutrients, or other bioactive materials.