Manager, Program Development and Partnerships
The CBB is happy to announce the hiring of our new manager of program development and partnerships, Colin Russell!
Thomas Willett (SYDE) and co-applicant Andrew Laing (Kinesiology) have been awarded $653,157 over four years from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) to study potential mechanisms of bone fragility originating in the organic phase of bone.
CBB members, Trevor Charles and Murray Moo-Young, hosted a workshop on biomanufacturing at UW, June 24-27, as part of a new IPRG collaborative project between UW and the Members of CeBiB at the University of
Dr. Gregory De Crescenzo from École Polytechnique de Montréal received a $1.65 million CREATE Grant. The proposal team consisted of experts from Polytechnique, McGill, University of Montreal, University of Quebec (INRS), and the University of Waterloo. From the University of Waterloo, CBB member's Marc Aucoin and Frank Gu were co-applicants on this proposal.
The CBB Received $1.6 million CREATE Grant from NSERC (CREATE - Competition Results - 2018)
$1.65 million will support launch of new biomedical technology graduate program.
This month we discuss synbio, regulation, and science advocacy with Professor Trevor Charles. Dr. Charles has been a professor in the department of biology at the University of Waterloo for 20 years and has been a strong advocate for synthetic biology research, both at Waterloo and in Canada.
People with diabetes could be able to monitor their blood sugar without drawing blood using a system now being developed at the University of Waterloo.
In a recent study, researchers combined radar and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to detect changes in glucose levels without the need for painful finger pricks several times a day.
Hamid Tizhoosh at Huron Digital Pathology, a St. Jacobs-based producer of digital imaging technology. Tizhoosh is the director of KIMIA Labs at the University of Waterloo’s Artificial Intelligence Institute, and the lead researcher on the project. [Faisal Ali / The Observer]Waiting for the results of a biopsy can be an harrowing experience.
Professor Brian Dixon hosts Sajeev Kohli in his University of Waterloo lab, guiding him on experiments and helping to promote his work to the outside world.