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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.

Andrew Doxey Receives Thermo Fisher Scientific Award

This Tuesday afternoon at the CSM conference in Winnipeg, WCMR member Andrew Doxey will give his lecture after receiving the Thermo Fisher Scientific Award.

Paris, Compiègne, June 18-22 2018

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.

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. 

The University of Waterloo's Laboratory for Knowledge Inference in Medical Image Analysis (Kimia Lab) recently announced that its AI project for digital pathology has been awarded a grant by the Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence program (ORF-RE).

Congatulations to CBB members who have been awarded funding through the Ontario Research Fund: Research Excellence.

A team of Waterloo researchers found that applying artificial intelligence to the right combination of data retrieved from wearable technology may detect whether your health is failing.

The study, which involved researchers from Waterloo’s Faculties of Applied Health Sciences and Engineering, found that the data from wearable sensors and artificial intelligence that assesses changes in aerobic responses could one day predict whether a person is experiencing the onset of a respiratory or cardiovascular disease.

Congatulations to CBB members Ehsan Toyserkani and Norman Zhou for being named Canada Research Chairs (CRC). The announcement made by the Government of Canada is part of national funding for CRCs worth $158 million.