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Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Comeau, Research Associate and Laboratory Manager in the Waterloo Composite Biomaterial Systems Laboratory, for her paper "Printability of Methacrylated Gelatin Upon Inclusion of a Chloride Salt and Hydroxyapatite Nano-particles", which as recently accepted for publication in the journal Macromolecular Materials and Engineering.

This is some of the latest research from the Waterloo Composite Biomaterial Systems Laboratory. Congrats to Aram Bahmani and Patricia Comeau for their excellent work!

"Extrudable hydroxyapatite/plant oil-based biopolymer nanocomposites for biomedical applications: Mechanical testing and modeling" by Bahmani, Comeau, Montesano and Willett.

Congratulations to Mr. Aram Bahmani for his second paper accepted for publication in the journal Composite Structures. The paper is titled "Three-dimensional micromechanical assessment of bio-inspired composites with non-uniformly dispersed inclusions". Aram recently completed with MASc degree in the CBSL and was co-supervised by Prof. John Montesano (MME).

Congratulations to Mr. Aram Bahmani for a successful MASc seminar today in Mechanical and Mechantronics Engineering. Aram is co-supervised by Prof. Montesano (MME) and Prof. Willett (SYDE). He will successfully complete his MASc requirements by mid-November, and then carry on to McGill for his PhD. All the best, Aram!

WCBSL's collaboration with Dr. Jeff Nyman from Vanderbilt University Medical Center has yielded its first publication regarding the important role of collagen integrity, and its degradation in age and disease, in determining the fracture toughness of human cortical bone. The study was recently accepted for publication in the field leading journal, Bone.

Follow this link to reach the article on the publishers website: 
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8756328218304046

Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Comeau, senior postdoctoral fellow in the WCBSL, for her recent paper published in Scientific Reports entitled "Impact of Side Chain Polarity on Non-Stoichiometric Nano-Hydroxyapatite Surface Functionalization with Amino Acids". (https://rdcu.be/42xT)

We have a new NSERC CREATE graduate student training program in biomedical technology innovation starting at UWaterloo this Fall term (F2018). You can find out more here: https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/waterloo-faculty-member-awarded-nserc-create-grant and https://uwaterloo.ca/bioengineering-biotechnology/uw-create-program

Thomas Willett (SYDE) and co-applicant Andrew Laing (Kinesiology) have been awarded $653,157 over four years from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) to study potential mechanisms of bone fragility originating in the organic phase of bone.

Congratulations to Mr. Daniel Dapaah, MASc candidate in the WCBSL, for his recent paper (A CONTINUUM DAMAGE MECHANICS MODEL OF THE MICRODAMAGE PROCESS ZONE DURING CORTICAL BONE FRACTURE) accepted to The 1st International Conference on Materials, Mimicking, Manufacturing from and for Bio Application (www.biomm.org; Milan, Italy, June 2018).

The Composite Biomaterial Systems Laboratory seeks highly motivated, proactive, and enthusiastic individuals to work on two-year (MASc) or four-year (PhD) projects under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Willett, PhD, PEng, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Enginering Program, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.