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Thursday, June 28, 2018

Hamid Tizhoosh; Partners employing AI to help speed up the diagnosis phase

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.

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Alex Wong's Elucid Labs Non-Invasive Technology Promises to Reduce Biopsies

Wong's Elucid Labs Non-Invasive Technology Promises to Reduce Biopsies  

A medical startup has developed cutting-edge imaging technology that has the potential to detect skin cancer without leaving a mark.

Elucid Labs uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology in a small non-invasive imaging device to analyze moles and other skin lesions for signs of skin cancer, helping dermatologists make faster, more accurate decisions and reducing the number of unnecessary biopsies.

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

French-Canadian biomedical engineering Summer School and Bio-Hackathon

Paris, Compiègne, June 18-22 2018

The French-Canadian BIOMEDInnov Summer School will take place June 18 to 22, 2018, and will engage students designing innovative new technologies for health and medicine.   The program focuses on needs-driven design to develop clinically relevant biomedical technologies. Travelling to France to attend the summer school are 22 students (from all universities) and 6 researchers from the University of Waterloo who were involved in the international exchange.

Friday, June 1, 2018

CBB Members Outstanding performance award winners

Congratulations to CBB members who have been named Outstanding Performance award winners!

Vice-President, Academic & Provost George Dixon has announced the winners of the 2017 Outstanding Performance Award winners.

The University of Waterloo established an Outstanding Performance Fund to reward faculty members for outstanding contributions in teaching and scholarship. The award came into effect in May 2005 in accordance with the 2003 Faculty Salary Settlement.

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Sanjeev Kohli, Mentored by CBB Member Brain Dixon, takes cancer treatment tech to BioGENEius Challenge in Boston

Jackie Sharkey · CBC News · Posted: May 30, 2018

Sajeev Kohli doesn't like to boast that he's found a cure for cancer. The sixteen-year-old thinks too many people make that claim. 

But over the past year he's been working long days and nights out of a lab at the University of Waterloo to find a better and cheaper way of treating cancer and other diseases. 

"Basically my project focuses on developing a new method to build these nanoparticle-based drug carriers that can be used for the treatment of a wide range of diseases," Kohli said.