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Engineering researchers are among more than 100 University of Waterloo faculty members receiving new federal support to pursue long-term, high-impact discovery research.

The funding is part of over $32 million awarded to Waterloo through a national investment by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF), supporting researchers at institutions across the country.

Health-tech startup Cobionix has secured U.S. $3 million in funding to accelerate the commercialization of its flagship autonomous medical robot, CODI®, in North American and UK healthcare systems.

Co-founded in 2021 by Waterloo Engineering alumni Nima Zamani and Dr. Tim Lasswell (both BASc ‘14 and MASc ‘16, mechanical and mechatronics engineering) with John Van Leeuwen (BSc ‘81), Cobionix builds autonomous medical robots that can help make health care more accessible.

A Waterloo Engineering graduate student has been awarded one of Canada’s top graduate scholarships for her research helping communities adapt to extreme heat using data-driven, climate-resilient solutions.

Irfhana Zakir Hussain, a PhD student in the Department of Systems Design Engineering and the School of Public Health Sciences, has received a 2025 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for her work in integrating environmental, health and socioeconomic data to predict and map heat-related health risks in Waterloo neighbourhoods.