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Thomas Willett, and co-applicants including Maud Gorbet and Alex El-Warrak, have been awarded $665,552 over four years from Canadian institutes of health Research (CIHR). The award was granted for their project titled "Bone-mimetic nanocomposite biomaterials for critically-sized skeletal defect reconstruction."

CBB researcher and professor of computing science Pascal Poupart discusses the use of AI to create a bridge between academia and business.

Jennifer Boger, Shi Cao and collaborators are investigating new ways to provide individualized exercise opportunities for older adults and persons living with dementia.

Andrew Doxey and colleagues have discovered a new kind of botox.

A new source of the botulinum neurotoxin was discovered in a strain of animal gut bacteria, known as Enterococcus faecium. Over the past 20 years, there have been a growing number of therapeutic applications for botulinum toxin type A, known as botox, including treatment for migraines, leaky bladders, excessive sweating, and cardiac conditions.

Mohammad Kohandel, Sivbal Sivaloganathan and colleagues have discovered that applied mathematics can be used as a tool in predicting the genesis and evolution of different types of cancers. 

The study uses evolutionary dynamics, a form of mathematical analysis, to look at how mutations evolve in stem and non-stem cells in colorectal and intestinal cancers.

Marianna Foldvari received an award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievements in Nanoscience from NanoOntario, an organization that represents the province’s nanotechnology community. She has also been appointed a fellow of the prestigious American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences (AAPS).  Dr. Foldvari is a global leader in non-invasive gene therapy and nanomedicine-based large drug molecule delivery.

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Richard Houghson, Kinesiology professor and his team discover that women can process oxygen about 30% more quickly than men when they start to exercise, indicating a superior aerobic system. “It could change the way we approach assessment and athletic training down the road,” said Thomas Beltrame, lead author on the study.  

The study is published in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism.

[Waterloo News]

Jennifer Boger receives funding through JPI MYBL 2017 for a project in "Ageing and place in a digitising world."

Technology developed by Alexander Wong and team is paving the way for artificial intelligence (AI) to break free of the internet and cloud computing. 

New deep-learning AI software produced with that technology is compact enough to fit on mobile computer chips for use in everything from smartphones to industrial robots. That would allow devices to operate independent of the internet while using AI that performs almost as well as tethered neural networks.