| Faculty (& link to research interests) |
Other Department Affiliation | Faculty Rank | Research Area | |
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Shernaz Bamji
shernaz.bamji@ubc.ca |
Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Professor
Head, Neuroscience Research Group Associate Director, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health |
• Understand the formation, remodelling, and elimination of synaptic connections in the brain • Determine how disruptions in the formation and/or plasticity of synaptic connections perturb brain function • Determine whether restoring synaptic function in the diseased brain can normalize cognitive and functional abilities |
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Ali Bashashati
ali.bashashati@ubc.ca |
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Assistant Professor
Director of AI Research at BC Ovarian Cancer Program (OVCARE) |
• Develop machine learning, statistical and signal processing algorithms and software infrastructure to combine various sources of omics and imaging data with major emphasis on discovering novel biological information and biomarkers that can be used for treatment selection in cancer |
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Sharareh Bayat
shararehb@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Lecturer | |
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Karen Cheung
kcheung@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor
Director, Graduate Biomedical Engineering Program & Associate Director |
• Biomedical microsystems for diagnostic and therapeutic applications, dielectric spectroscopy for flow cytometry, implantable polymer-based microelectrode arrays, integrated cell culture systems. • Lab-on-a-chip systems for cell culture and characterization • Inkjet printing for tissue engineering • Implantable neural interfaces. |
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Peter Cripton
cripton@mech.ubc.ca |
Mechanical Engineering | Professor
Director, Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Program & Associate Director Principal Investigator, ICORD and Centre for Brain Health Co-Director, UBC Orthopaedic and Injury Biomechanics Group |
• Orthopaedic Biomechanics • Injury Biomechanics • Neurotrauma (Spinal Cord and Brain Injury) • Biomechanics of Hip Fracture • Injury Prevention |
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Carl de Boer
carl.deboer@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor | • Creation of genomic “big data” to decipher regulation of genomes • Understanding susceptibility to common complex inherited diseases, like autoimmunity and heart disease, via unravelling role of gene regulation in health and disease |
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Connie Eaves
ceaves@bccrc.ca |
Medical Genetics | Professor | • Normal and Leukemic Stem Cells – Characterization and Regulation • Normal and Malignant Breast Stem Cells – Characterization and Regulation • Derivation of Hematopoietic Cells from Human Embryonic and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells • Development, validation and use of quantitative assays that are specific for biologically distinct subsets of these stem cells using syngeneic (mouse-mouse) and xenogeneic (human-mouse) hosts, and the application of these technologies to understand the biological events that allow malignant clones to develop and progress |
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Kurt Haas
kurt.haas@ubc.ca |
Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Professor | • Direct imaging of structural and functional plasticity in the intact and awake developing brain underlying normal growth and formation of dysfunctional neural networks leading to Autism, Schizophrenia and Epilepsy. |
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Antony Hodgson
ahodgson@mech.ubc.ca |
Mechanical Engineering | Professor
Director, Medtech Development Hub Associate Director, Institute of Computing, Information & Cognitive Systems |
• Computer-Assisted Surgery • Medical Robotics • Surgical Simulators and Skill Assessment • Neuromotor Control • Biomechanics |
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Pamela Hoodless
hoodless@bccrc.ca |
Medical Genetics | Professor
Director, Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer |
• Stem cells, control of normal development and mechanisms underlying cancer initiation and progression • Regulatory mechanisms in heart and gastrointestinal tract development in the mouse embryo using genome-wide analysis of gene expression, transcription factor binding, and histone modifications |
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Myeong Jin Ju
myeongjin.ju@ubc.ca |
Ophthamology & Visual Sciences | Assistant Professor | • Optical imaging systems and signal processing algorithms • OCT based angiography and polarimetry to examine the human eye in vivo for clinical applications in ophthalmology |
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Tim Kieffer
tkieffer@mail.ubc.ca |
Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Professor | • Development of novel gene and cell therapies for diabetes • Physiological Insulin Replacement |
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Calvin Kuo
calvin.kuo@ubc.ca |
Mechanical Engineering | Assistant Professor | • Traumatic brain injury • Parameter identification • Musculoskeletal modeling: simulation of the kinetic evolution of a head impact • Development of wearable sensors to capture concussion biomechanics • Monitoring musculoskeletal injuries: Bayesian filter for high rate human motion measurements |
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Gabrielle Lam
gabrielle.lam@ubc.ca |
Materials Engineering | Assistant Professor of Teaching | • Knowledge integration and application of materials engineering and biomedical engineering |
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Megan Levings
megan.levings@ubc.ca |
Surgery | Professor
Head, Childhood Diseases, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute |
• Exploration of T regulatory (Treg) cells and their role in transplantation tolerance, cancer and inflammatory bowel disease |
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Francis Lynn
francis.lynn@ubc.ca |
Surgery | Associate Professor | • Formation of islet β-cells (insulin producing cells) from pancreatic stem or progenitor cells during solid organ formation • Cell-based approaches for preventing and reversing the β-cell deterioration and loss that occurs with diabetes |
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Kelly McNagny
kelly@brc.ubc.ca |
Medical Genetics | Professor
Associate Director, Allergen NCE Inc., the Allergy, Genes and Environment Network (Canada) |
• Signaling networks, innate immune response, kidney function and cell based therapy • Transcriptional and signaling networks • Surface molecules expressed by HSC |
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Robyn Newell
robyn.newell@ubc.ca |
Lecturer | ||
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Ivan Robert Nabi
ivan.robert.nabi@ubc.ca |
Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Professor
Director, Life Sciences Institute Imaging Facility |
• Cell biology of cancer • Use of super-resolution microscopy to study cellular domains |
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Calvin Roskelley
roskelly@mail.ubc.ca |
Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Professor | • Co-opted functions of genes during breast and ovarian carcinoma progression |
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Fabio Rossi
fabio@brc.ubc.ca |
Medical Genetics | Professor
Director, Research & Associate Director Director, Biomedical Research Centre |
• Cellular systems in muscle regeneration • Microglia/macrophages in CNS pathology • Epigenetic control of lineage choice/differentiation |
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Nika Shakiba
nika.shakiba@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor | • Using cell competition to understand stem cell systems • A novel class of engineered stem cell therapies using synthetic biology • Using cell competition as a lens to reverse engineer stem cell systems and synthetic biology to forward engineer stem cell fitness |
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Roger Tam
roger.tam@ubc.ca |
Radiology | Associate Professor
Director, Engineers in Scrubs Program |
• Use of magnetic resonance images to improve the understanding of neurological disorders • In vivo imaging, imaging biomarkers, machine learning, imaging artifacts and their impact on quantitative analysis, computational shape modelling & morphometrics, and medical informatics & distributed medical imaging systems |
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Carolina Tropini
carolina.tropini@ubc.ca |
Microbiology & Immunology | Assistant Professor | • Stability of microbial communities and their response to perturbations during disease • Combining imaging, microfluidics and computational techniques • Osmotic and other physical perturbations, inflammatory bowel diseases, phage dynamics, and microbial invasion dynamics |
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Michael Underhill
tunderhi@brc.ubc.ca |
Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Professor | • The role of retinoic acid receptor-mediated signaling in chondrogenesis • Factors in skeletal development • Understanding transcriptional networks operating within the osteogenic program for novel therapeutic avenues to promote bone and cartilage formation for the treatment of skeletal diseases such as arthritis and osteoporosis |
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Jenna Usprech
jenna.usprech@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor of Teaching | • Incorporating cellular/tissue engineering design into the SBME undergraduate curriculum | |
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Rizhi Wang
rizhi.wang@ubc.ca |
Materials Engineering | Professor
Canada Research Chair (Biomaterials) |
• Novel surface designs and processing techniques on metal implants to regulate cell response and tissue organization and therefore to improve implant/tissue integrity • Deformation and fracture mechanisms of bone family materials • Morphology, ultrastructure and mechanics of biological interfaces to develop novel surface and interface design |
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Nozomu Yachie
yachie.nozomu@ubc.ca |
Associate Professor | • DNA Event Recording Biology, Genome Editing, Cell Lineage Tracing, Interactome, Bioinformatics • Harnessing genome editing, cell engineering, mouse genetics, and high-performance computing to establish “Sense,” “Write,” “Store,” and “Read” technologies for the massive tracing of molecular and cellular dynamics in high-resolution |
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Vikramaditya Yadav
vikramaditya.yadav@ubc.ca |
Chemical & Biological Engineering | Associate Professor
Chair, Chemical Institute of Canada (Biotechnology Division) |
• Biocatalysis, Bioremediation, Bioprocess engineering, Drug delivery, Infectious disease pathogenesis & drug discovery, Green chemistry, Medical biotechnology, Metabolic engineering, Synthetic biology, Tissue engineering • Metabolic & enzyme engineering to investigate and customise novel biosynthetic enzymes that can convert biomass-derived feedstocks into better fuels, pharmaceuticals and value-added chemicals |
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Peter Zandstra
peter.zandstra@ubc.ca |
Professor
Director, Michael Smith Laboratories Director, School of Biomedical Engineering Canada Research Chair (Stem Cell Bioengineering) |
• Multi-scale modeling of complex biology, synthetic stem cells & regenerative medicine, Synthetic niches to control stem cell fate, new therapies for blood diseases |
Associate Members
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Current Members:
| Faculty | Home Department | Faculty Rank | Research Area | |
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Purang Abolmaesumi
purang@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor
Canada Research Chair, Tier II (Biomedical Engineering) |
• Machine learning, medical image analysis, and image-guided therapy |
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Mattia Bacca
mbacca@mech.ubc.ca |
Mechanical Engineering | Assistant Professor | • Mathematical and computational modeling of the active mechanical behavior of soft biological materials. • Cytoskeletal mechanics, damage mechanics, viscoelastic characterization, puncture mechanics, adhesion and fracture. |
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Mark Cembrowski
mark.cembrowski@ubc.ca |
Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Assistant Professor | • Experimental, computational • Mathematical approaches to understanding the neuroscience of memory |
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Mu Chiao
muchiao@mech.ubc.ca |
Mechanical Engineering | Professor | • Fabrication and packaging of micro-electro-mechanical systems for biological applications |
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Edward Conway
ed.conway@ubc.ca |
Medicine | Professor
Canada Research Chair (Endothelial Cell Biology) Director, Centre for Blood Research |
• Defining the molecular links between coagulation and innate immunity |
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Leah Edelstein-Keshet
keshet@math.ubc.ca |
Mathematics | Professor | • Mathematical models of cell motility • Intracellular signaling and small GTPases, single and collective cell migration. |
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Sid Fels
ssfels@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor | • Human computer interaction • Human 3D biomechanical modeling • Speech synthesis • Medical applications of modeling • Computer vision • Interactive arts and music |
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Rafeef Garbi
rafeef@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor | • Medical image computing • Computer vision • Image analysis • Machine learning for medical imaging • Biomedical applications |
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Dana Grecov
dgrecov@mech.ubc.ca |
Mechanical Engineering | Associate Professor | • Liquid crystals and nanomaterials • Cellulose Nanocrystals • Biofluid Mechanics • Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics • Computational Fluid Dynamics • Rheology and Tribology |
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Matthias Gӧrges
mgorges@cw.bc.ca |
Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, & Therapeutics | Assistant Professor | • Patient monitoring alarms, medical displays, decision support systems, mobile health applications, and data integration/communication platforms |
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Jane Hill
jane.hill@ubc.ca |
Chemical & Biological Engineering | Professor | • Metabolomics, transcriptomics, diagnostics, infectious disease, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, mass spectrometry, chromatography, MEMS |
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Aly Karsan
akarsan@bcgsc.ca |
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Professor
Medical Director, Centre for Clinical Genomics, Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency Medical Director, Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, BC Cancer Agency |
• Normal and malignant hematopoiesis • Aging and inflammation • Epigenomics and stem cell states • Clinical genomics |
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Christian Kastrup
ckastrup@msl.ubc.ca |
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Associate Professor | • Biochemical engineering to solve problems related to hemostasis and thrombosis. • Investigate, utilize, and mimic the biochemistry and biophysical dynamics of blood coagulation to create innovative materials that perform new functions inside of blood vessels, and work to develop novel treatments for severe hemorrhage |
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Jay Kizhakkedathu
jay@pathology.ubc.ca |
Pathology | Professor | • Anticoagulation, biodegradable polymers, blood compatible polymers, polymer chemistry and therapeutics, proteomics |
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Peter Lansdorp
plansdor@bccrc.ca |
Medical Genetics | Professor | • DNA replication, epigenetics and stem cells, telomeres, genomic instability, aging and cancer, genetic analysis using single cell Strand-seq |
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Tim Lee
tlee@bccrc.ca |
Dermatology and Skin Science | Associate Professor | • Early skin cancer detection • Epidemiologic research on skin cancer |
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John Madden
jmadden@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor
Director, Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory |
• Artificial muscle and application to medical devices • Photosynthetic photovoltaics • Super-capacitors, batteries, sensors, carbon nanotube device • Musculoskeletal oncology |
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Bassam Masri
bas.masri@vch.ca |
Orthopaedics | Professor
Head, Department of Orthopaedics Head, Department of Orthopaedics at Vancouver Acute (Vancouver General and University Hospitals) |
• Adult hip and knee reconstruction and replacement • Musculoskeletal oncology |
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Tim Murphy
timothy.murphy@ubc.ca |
Psychiatry | Professor | • Mouse brain imaging • Closed loop brain stimulation and feedback • Automation of mouse behavior • Machine learning as applied to neurodata |
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Santa Ono
santa.ono@ubc.ca |
Ophthamology & Visual Sciences; Microbiology & Immunology | Professor
UBC President & Vice-Chancellor |
• Immune system, eye inflammation and age-related macular degeneration |
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Tom Oxland
toxland@icord.org |
Orthopaedics & Mechanical Engineering | Professor
Canada Research Chair (Spine Biomechanics) Associate Director, Preclinical Discovery Research, ICORD |
• Spinal cord injury • Aging spine • Orthopaedic implants |
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Josef Penninger
josef.penninger@ubc.ca |
Medical Genetics | Professor
Canada 150 Chair (Functional Genetics) Director, Life Sciences Institute |
• Bone Remodeling, Cancer, Cardiovascular Regeneration, Immunopathology, Neurodegenerative Diseases • Blood vessel engineering, BH4, Haploid stem cells |
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James Piret
james.piret@ubc.ca |
Chemical & Biological Engineering | Professor | • Bioprocessing, biomedical, bioreactor and device engineering, bioprocess optimization and cell therapy biotechnology • Biotechnology, clinical translation, biological imaging, computational modeling and regenerative medicine |
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Lynn Raymond
lynn.raymond@ubc.ca |
Psychiatry | Professor
Director, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health Louise A. Brown Chair, Neuroscience |
• Brain synaptic and circuit function • Optogenetics • Electrophysiology • Models of neurodegenerative disease |
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Robert Rohling
rohling@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor
Director, the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS) |
• Medical imaging, medical information systems, robotics, ultrasound imaging in both 2D and 3D • Calibration of robotic systems and their application in surgery |
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Tim Salcudean
tims@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor
Canada Research Chair (Intelligent Computer Interface Design) C.A. Laszlo Chair (Biomedical Engineering) |
• Medical robotics • Image-guided interventions • Medical image analysis including cancer classification, ultrasound, elastography, teleoperation. |
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Peyman Servati
peymans@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor | • Smart textile and wearable technology, flexible electronics, flexible solar cells and batteries, advanced nanomaterials • Disposable medical sensors |
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Kenichi Takahata
takahata@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor
Canada Research Chair (Advanced Micro/Nanofabrication and MEMS) |
• Micromachined sensors and actuators • MEMS • Implantable micro devices • Micro-scale wireless sensing/control • 3-D micro fabrication techniques • Micro electrodischarge machining and control • Microplasma control and application |
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Mike Van der Loos
vdl@mech.ubc.ca |
Mechanical Engineering | Associate Professor
Associate Head, External and Industry Relations (Mechanical Engineering) Director, Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab (ICICS) |
• Inherently safe design of mobile manipulation robotic systems • Development and testing of mechatronic exercise systems for stroke therapy • Development of robotic tools for improved understanding and treatment of human balance disorders • Exploration of ethical design principles for robot interfaces and neurotechnologies |
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Konrad Walus
konradw@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor | • Nanoelectronic devices and circuits • Quantum-dot cellular automata • Single-electron transistors • Quantum mechanical simulations |
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Cheryl Wellington
cheryl.wellington@ubc.ca |
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Professor | • Genetic and environmental risk factors for dementia, including apolipoprotein E (apoE) metabolism, history of traumatic brain injury (TBI), and cerebrovascular dysfunction |
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David Wilson
david.wilson@ubc.ca |
Orthopaedics | Professor
Co-Director, Centre for Hip Health & Mobility |
• Hip, knee and spine mechanics • Causes and treatments of osteoarthritis • Medical imaging and medical image processing • Orthopaedic sports medicine |
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Lyndia Wu
lwu@mech.ubc.ca |
Mechanical Engineering | Assistant Professor | • Injury biomechanics • Soft tissue biomechanics • Traumatic brain injury • Sleep biomechanics • Sensors and instrumentation • Data mining and machine learning |
| Faculty | Home Institute | Faculty Rank | Research Area | |
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Freda Miller
fredam@sickkids.ca |
University of Toronto & Hospital for Sick Children | Professor
Canada Research Chair, Developmental Neurobiology Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children |
• Neural stem cells • Neurotrophin regulation of neuronal survival • Growth and connectivity • Eole of p53 family in the nervous system • Molecular regulation of neurogenesis |
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Stephanie Willerth
willerth@uvic.ca |
University of Victoria | Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair, Biomedical Engineering Acting Director, Centre for Biomedical Research (University of Victoria) |
• Tissue engineering • Regenerative medicine • Biomaterials scaffolds for controlling stem cell differentiation |
| Faculty | Home Institute | Faculty Rank | Research Area | |
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Anthony Chan
Anthony_Chan@bcit.ca |
British Columbia Institute of Technology, Biomedical Engineering, School of Health Sciences | Program Head
Faculty Member |
• Assistive technology • Medical device development • Healthcare technology management |
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Bruno Jaggi
bjaggi@bme.ubc.ca |
Simon Fraser University
LivSpek Medical Technologies Inc. |
Adjunct Professor
Engineering Advisor |
• Develop a non-invasive blood measurement and analysis device using specialized optical spectroscopy |