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Two local health-tech companies have received a combined $1.9 million from the Government of Ontario to expand manufacturing, accelerate commercialization and bring advanced medical technologies to global markets.

Intellijoint Surgical Inc. and Vena Medical were both founded by Waterloo Engineering alumni and grew out of their fourth-year Capstone Design projects.

Fourth-year civil engineering student Thomas Fulton completed his last co-op work term at Caivan, the Ontario-based real estate developer and founder of the Future Cities Institute (FCI) at Waterloo.

As part of Caivan’s land development team, Fulton applied his engineering and technology skills to support purpose-built housing solutions amid Canada’s ongoing affordability challenges.

Bacteria engineered to eat cancerous tumours from the inside out have been developed by Waterloo Engineering researchers in a promising new approach to treatment.

The interdisciplinary research team found two key solutions to use a bacterium called Clostridium sporogenes, which is commonly found in soil and can only grow in environments with absolutely no oxygen, to effectively consume cancer.