Name & Contact Info | Roles | Research Areas | |
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Shernaz Bamji
shernaz.bamji@ubc.ca |
Professor Associate Director, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health |
Formation, remodelling, elimination of brain synaptic connections; formation/plasticity disruptions & brain function; normalizing cognitive and functional abilities |
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Ali Bashashati
ali.bashashati@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor
Director of AI Research, BC Ovarian Cancer Program (OVCARE) |
Machine learning, statistical & signal processing algorithms, software infrastructure for combined omics & imaging data sources; cancer treatment stratification. |
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Anna Blakney
anna.blakney@msl.ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor | Optimization of molecular RNA design and formulation for enhanced protein expression and immune response in vivo. |
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Karen Cheung
kcheung@ece.ubc.ca |
Professor Director Graduate Biomedical Engineering Program & Associate Director, School of Biomedical Engineering |
Diagnostic & therapeutic biomedical microsystems; dielectric spectroscopy for flow cytometry; implantable polymer-based microelectrode arrays; integrated cell culture systems. |
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Peter Cripton
peter.cripton@ubc.ca |
Professor Director Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Program & Associate Director, School of Biomedical Engineering |
Biomechanics & prevention of spinal cord/column and brain injuries and hip fractures; cervical spine injury prevention in sports and transportation; helmet efficacy; helmet design. |
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Carl de Boer | Assistant Professor | Genomic big data to decipher genome regulation; gene regulation and susceptibility to common complex inherited diseases; autoimmunity, heart disease. |
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Connie Eaves
ceaves@bccrc.ca |
Professor | Normal and leukemic stem cell characterization & regulation; breast cancer; hematopoietic cells from human embryonic stem cells and iPSCs. |
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Kurt Haas
kurt.haas@ubc.ca |
Professor | Imaging of structural & functional plasticity in the developing brain; growth and formation of dysfunctional neural networks; autism, schizophrenia, epilepsy. |
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Negar Harandi
negar.harandi@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor of Teaching | Theory and experiments involving instruments for general, orthopedic, cardiac, and minimally invasive surgery |
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Pamela Hoodless
hoodless@bccrc.ca |
Professor Director, Terry Fox Laboratory BC Cancer |
Stem cells & control of normal development and oncogenesis; heart and GI tract development; genome-wide gene expression analysis, transcription factor binding, histone modifications. |
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Myeong Jin Ju
myeongjin.ju@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor | Optical imaging; signal processing algorithms; OCT-based angiography and polarimetry; in vivo ocular imaging; ophthalmology. |
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Govind Kaigala
govind.kaigala@ubc.ca |
Associate Professor | Bioanalytical methods, microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip, liquid scanning probes, microscale assays, compartmentalization Molecular diagnostics, pathology, multi-omic tumor profiling, tumor heterogeneity, personalized medicine |
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Tim Kieffer
tkieffer@mail.ubc.ca |
Professor | Development of novel gene and cell therapies for diabetes; physiological insulin replacement. |
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Calvin Kuo
calvin.kuo@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor | Musculoskeletal modeling of traumatic brain injury; parameter identification; wearable sensors in concussion biomechanics; Bayesian filter for high rate human motion measurements. |
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Zachary Laksman
zlaksman@mail.ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor Director Atrial Fibrillation Clinic & Inherited Arrhythmia Clinic, St. Paul’s Hospital |
Genetic basis for diseases of the heart muscle, heart rhythm, sudden cardiac death; stem cell models; growing heart cells in vitro; personalized disease modeling and therapy. |
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Gabrielle Lam
gabrielle.lam@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor of Teaching | Tissue engineering, biomaterials and regenerative medicine; integrating experiential learning in course design; self-regulated and collaborative learning. |
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Megan Levings
megan.levings@ubc.ca |
Professor Lead, Childhood Diseases, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute |
Immune cell engineering; immune tolerance in transplantation and autoimmunity; regulatory immune cell therapy. |
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David Liu
Dave.Liu@vch.ca |
Associate Professor | Interventional radiology for oncology; non-invasive imaging; inferior vena cava filter management; advanced management of blood clots. |
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Francis Lynn
francis.lynn@ubc.ca |
Associate Professor | Islet beta cell formation from pancreatic stem or progenitor cells; cell-based prevention and reversion of beta cell deterioration and loss in diabetes. |
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Manu Madhav
manu.madhav@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor | Algorithmic role of neural circuits in controlling behaviour; quantifying computational transformations effected by neural networks in higher-level cognitive brain regions. |
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Kelly McNagny
kelly@brc.ubc.ca |
Professor | Signaling networks; innate immune response; kidney function and cell-based therapies; transcriptional and signaling networks; surface molecules expressed by HSCs. |
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Ivan Robert Nabi
ivan.robert.nabi@ubc.ca |
Professor Director, Life Sciences Institute Imaging Facility |
Cell biology of cancer; use of super-resolution microscopy to study cellular domains. |
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Robyn Newell
robyn.newell@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor of Teaching | Biomechanics; Biomedical Engineering Design Projects; Integrating teaching strategies that include accessible, experiential, and student-driven learning |
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Calvin Roskelley
calvin.roskelley@ubc.ca |
Professor | Genes and genetic products involved in regulating tissue architecture in breast and ovarian carcinoma progression. |
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Fabio Rossi
fabio@brc.ubc.ca |
Professor Director, Research & Associate Director, School of Biomedical Engineering Director, Biomedical Research Centre |
Cellular systems in muscle regeneration; microglia and macrophages in CNS pathology; epigenetic control of lineage choice and differentiation. |
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Tim Salcudean
tims@ece.ubc.ca |
Professor Canada Research Chair (Intelligent Computer Interface Design) C.A. Laszlo Chair (Biomedical Engineering) |
Haptic interfaces, teleoperation and simulators, medical robotics, imaging and interfaces, optimization-based design |
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Dena Shahriari
dena.shahriari@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor | Smart biomaterials; neural interfaces; biosensors; tissue regeneration; organ augmentation. |
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Nika Shakiba
nika.shakiba@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor | Cell competition to reverse engineer stem cell systems and synthetic biology to forward engineer stem cell fitness; engineered stem cell therapies using synthetic biology. |
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Roger Tam
roger.tam@ubc.ca |
Associate Professor Director, Engineers in Scrubs Program |
Magnetic resonance imaging of neurological disorders; imaging biomarkers; machine learning; imaging artifacts in quantitative analysis; computational shape modeling; medical informatics. |
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Carolina Tropini
carolina.tropini@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor | Human gut microbiome; response of microbial communities to perturbations during disease; imaging, microfluidics, computational techniques; inflammatory bowel disease. |
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Michael Underhill
tunderhi@brc.ubc.ca |
Professor | Retinoic acid receptor-mediated signaling in chondrogenesis; skeletal development; transcriptional networks for therapeutic bone and cartilage formation; arthritis; osteoporosis. |
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Jenna Usprech
jenna.usprech@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor of Teaching | Curriculum design; incorporation of cellular & tissue engineering into undergraduate curriculum; teaching strategies to promote retention of material, critical thought, wellness. |
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Rizhi Wang
rizhi.wang@ubc.ca |
Professor Canada Research Chair in Biomaterials |
Biomaterials, biomechanics, biomimetics. |
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Nozomu Yachie
nozomu.yachie@ubc.ca |
Associate Professor Canada Research Chair in Synthetic Biology |
Genome editing, cell engineering, mouse genetics, high-performance computing to trace molecular & cellular dynamics in high-resolution; DNA event recording; cell lineage tracing. |
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Vikramaditya Yadav
vikramaditya.yadav@ubc.ca |
Associate Professor Chair, Chemical Institute of Canada (Biotechnology Division) |
Tissue engineering, synthetic biology, medical biotechnology, metabolic engineering, drug delivery, infectious disease pathogenesis and drug discovery. |
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Peter Zandstra
peter.zandstra@ubc.ca |
Professor Director, School of Biomedical Engineering Director, Michael Smith Laboratories Canada Research Chair in 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. |
Name & Contact Info | Courses | |
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Sharareh Bayat
shararehb@ece.ubc.ca |
BMEG 400M/591M - Topics in Biomedical Engineering BMEG 320 - Bioengineering Feedback Systems and Controls BMEG 557 - Statistical Methods for Evaluating Medical Technologies |
Associate Members
Associate Membership in the School of Biomedical Engineering is an unofficial position given to a faculty member outside of the school when there is a need to have a formal arrangement to participate in teaching, research and service. This is not a joint appointment. To request membership please see here for more instructions: Associate Membership Application. Each application will be reviewed by the School’s leadership team.
Notes on Applying for Associate Membership
Term for associate membership is a maximum of 3 years. For renewal, a new application package must be submitted. It is expected that each member participate in at least one teaching and/or service activity (i.e. serve on a SBME committee, other than graduate supervisory committees). This activity must be clearly outline in the letter of intent.
Teaching and Committees
Teaching activities fall under our undergraduate and graduate curriculum umbrellas. Note that our students do take courses in other departments. SBME-specific courses are BMEG. They can be viewed here:
Our list of committees continues to expand as the school itself expands. Below is a list SBME committees:
- Undergrad Curriculum Committee
- Undergrad Admissions Committee
- Graduate Program Scholarship/Awards Committee
- Graduate Program Policy Committee
- MEng Admissions Committee
- PhD Rotation Committee
- Research Awards Committee
- Research Advisory Committee
- Faculty Mentorship Committee
- REDI Committee
Current Members:
Name & Contact Info | Primary Affiliation | Roles | Research Areas | |
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Purang Abolmaesumi
purang@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor Canada Research Chair, Tier II (Biomedical Engineering) |
Biomedical Engineering with emphasis on computer-assisted surgery, image-guided therapy and medical image analysis. |
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Mattia Bacca
mbacca@mech.ubc.ca |
Mechanical Engineering | Assistant Professor | Mechanics of functional materials, such as gecko-inspired adhesives, high toughness elastomers, hydrogels, and nanostructured metal alloys. |
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Mark Cembrowski
mark.cembrowski@ubc.ca |
Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Assistant Professor | Anxiety, Big data, Bioinformatics, Cell types, Computation, CRISPR-Cas9, Fear, Genetics, Modeling, Neural circuits, Neuroscience, Neuroscience of memory, PTSD, RNAseq. |
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Mu Chiao
muchiao@mech.ubc.ca |
Mechanical Engineering | Professor | Micro-energy sources, protein-MEMS interaction, MEMS-based photonic devices, design, fabrication and packing of MEMS for biological applications. |
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Edward Conway
ed.conway@ubc.ca |
Medicine | Professor Canada Research Chair (Endothelial Cell Biology) |
Molecular links between coagulation and innate immunity; tumor endothelial marker CD248. |
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Agnes d'Entremont
adentremont@mech.ubc.ca |
Mechanical Engineering | Associate Professor of Teaching | Adaptive control, predictive control, control of distributed parameters systems, advanced process control, applications of wavelet analysis, biomedical applications of control. |
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Guy Dumont
guyd@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor | Orthopaedic biomechanics; human joint kinematics; magnetic resonance imaging of the musculoskeletal system; pediatric orthopedics. |
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Leah Edelstein-Keshet
keshet@math.ubc.ca |
Mathematics | Professor | Mathematics-based study of autoimmune diseases and Alzheimer’s disease. |
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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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Thalia Field
thalia.field@ubc.ca |
Medicine | Associate Professor | Clinical trial process improvement, participant recruitment and retention, resource optimization, outcomes selection; telemedicine for remote recruitment and assessment; artificial intelligence to enhance clinical trial efficiency. |
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Rafeef Garbi
rafeef@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor | Visual computing in biomedical imaging; computational techniques for efficient, reproducible, accurate and robust analysis of structural and functional multi-dimensional biomedical data. |
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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@bcchr.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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Ilker Hacihaliloglu
ilker.hacihaliloglu@ubc.ca |
Radiology | Assistant Professor | Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, ultrasound imaging, image-guided surgery, computer-aided diagnostics, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, traumatic brain injury, brain health, chronic disease, liver and lung disease, endometriosis. |
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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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Antony Hodgson
ahodgson@mech.ubc.ca |
Mechanical Engineering | Professor | Computer-assisted orthopedic surgery; real-time 3D ultrasound imaging; mini-robotic devices and simulations for surgical accuracy & efficiency; human eye model for sensorimotor studies. |
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Aly Karsan
akarsan@bcgsc.ca |
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Professor | Myeloid malignancies, myelodysplastic syndromes, hematopoietic system development, toll-like receptor (TLR) pathways, Notch signaling pathway. |
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Jay Kizhakkedathu
jay@pathology.ubc.ca |
Pathology | Professor | Macromolecular iron sequesters, anticoagulant antidotes, universal blood donor cells, cell-based therapeutic carriers, antithrombotic/antimicrobial surfaces, proteomics. |
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Tim Lee
tlee@bccrc.ca |
Dermatology and Skin Science | Associate Professor | Early detection of skin cancer, epidemiologic research on skin cancer, artificial intelligence for analysis of skin lesion images, hand-held diagnostic imaging devices. |
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Sabrina Leslie
sabrina.leslie@msl.ubc.ca |
Physics & Astronomy | Associate Professor | DNA, RNA and protein interactions and dynamics; therapeutic oligonucleotides; nano-characterization and analytics; DNA super-structure; polymers under confinement. |
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Hongshen Ma
hongma@mech.ubc.ca |
Mechanical Engineering | Associate Professor | Microfabrication, microfluidics, instrumentation, product development, data analytics and visualization; development of new technologies for cell sorting, cell deformability, chemotaxis, single cell sequencing, and image cytometry; application of technologies to evaluate blood quality, test immune cell function, personalize cancer therapies, and expedite antimalarial drug development. |
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John Madden
jmadden@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor | Artificial muscle and application to medical devices, photosynthetic photovoltaics, super-capacitors, batteries, sensors, carbon nanotube devices. |
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Freda Miller
freda.miller@msl.ubc.ca |
Michael Smith Laboratories & Medical Genetics | Professor Canada Research Chair, Developmental Neurobiology |
Neural stem cells; neurotrophin regulation of neuronal survival; growth and connectivity; p53 family in the nervous system; molecular regulation of neurogenesis. |
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Tim Murphy
timothy.murphy@ubc.ca |
Psychiatry | Professor | Structure-function of brain circuits in relation to stroke; CNS synaptic plasticity/physiology mesoscale level; automated mouse brain imaging and brain stimulation. |
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Santa Ono
santa.ono@ubc.ca |
Ophthamology & Visual Sciences; Microbiology & Immunology | Professor UBC President & Vice-Chancellor |
Immune system; eye inflammation, age-related macular degeneration; ocular melanoma; retinoblastoma. |
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Josef Penninger
josef.penninger@ubc.ca |
Medical Genetics | Professor Canada 150 Chair (Functional Genetics) |
Genetic editing; human iPS cell models of disease; organoid cultures; blood vessel engineering; T cell biology; glycoproteomics in cancer; haploid stem cells. |
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James Piret
james.piret@ubc.ca |
Chemical & Biological Engineering | Professor | Biochemical and biomedical engineering, bioreactor, bioprocess, fed-batch, perfusion, hollow fibre, hybridoma, CHO, hematopoietic cells. |
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Eitan Prisman
eitan.prisman@ubc.ca |
Otolaryngology | Clinical Associate Professor | Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, Microvascular Facial Plastic Reconstruction, Trans-Oral Robotic Surgery, Endocrine surgery, Airway Reconstruction, Salivary Gland Malignancy, Cutaneous Malignancy |
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Arman Rahmim
arman.rahmim@ubc.ca |
Radiology | Professor | Improved cancer diagnosis, prognosis & radiotherapy by quantifying how radiopharmaceuticals, a combination of drugs & radioactive isotopes, precisely target cancer cells, in both imaging and therapy applications; machine learning; radiomics; theranostics. |
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Lynn Raymond
lynn.raymond@ubc.ca |
Psychiatry | Professor Louise A. Brown Chair, Neuroscience |
Synaptic function in Huntington disease; NMDA-type glutamate receptor and calcium homeostasis in synaptic function; mouse models & automated assessment. |
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Robert Rohling
rohling@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor | New acquisition techniques for 2D and 3D ultrasound, medical image processing, medical image guidance systems, and navigating very large medical image datasets. Applications in diagnostics, anesthesia, surgery, and radiation therapy. |
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Peyman Servati
peymans@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor | Low-cost and flexible photovoltaic (PV) devices, Flexible electronics, Semiconductor nanowires (NWs), Nanostructured electronic films, Nanostructure growth and synthesis, Nanocomposite electronics. |
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Babak Shadgan
babak.shadgan@ubc.ca |
Orthopaedics | Assistant Professor | Biophotonics to study tissue processes, including blood and oxygen supplies, in the clinic; continuous monitoring of spinal cord hemodynamics and oxygenation in acute spinal cord injury; implantable NIRS sensors; sports injury prevention. |
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Vesna Sossi
vesna@phas.ubc.ca |
Physics and Astronomy | Professor | Algorithm and instrumentation development; multi-modal imaging analysis in Parkinson’s disease, neurodegeneration; PET/MRI in discovering new markers for brain energetics and interactions between hemodynamic and metabolic networks. |
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Kenichi Takahata
takahata@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor Canada Research Chair (Advanced Micro/Nanofabrication and MEMS) |
Micro/nanofabrication; micromachined sensors and actuators; medical MEMS; nanotechnology; microplasma control; wireless drug delivery chips; smart stents. |
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Shuo Tang
tang@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor | Biophotonics, biomedical optics, optical tissue imaging instrumentation, optical coherence tomography, multiphoton microscopy |
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Mike Van der Loos
vdl@mech.ubc.ca |
Mechanical Engineering | Associate Professor | Development of mechatronic exercise systems for movement therapy and diagnostic technologies for improved sleep quality; research into human-robot interaction, the neurophysiology of standing balance and the field of roboethics. |
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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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Jane Z. Wang
zjanew@ece.ubc.ca |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Professor | Statistical signal processing for information security, biomedical imaging, genomic and wireless communications; model-based genomic/proteomic signal processing for cancer classification/prediction, modeling of genetic regulatory networks by incorporating genomic data sources, identification of cell-cycle related genes. |
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Alexander Weber
aweber@bcchr.ca |
Pediatrics | Assistant Professor | Non-invasive imaging for brain to study health and disease; MRI; insults, injuries and diseases of the brain; multimodal imaging techniques. |
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Cheryl Wellington
cheryl.wellington@ubc.ca |
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Professor | Genetic and environmental risk factors for dementia; apolipoprotein E (apoE) metabolism; history of traumatic brain injury (TBI); cerebrovascular dysfunction. |
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David Wilson
david.wilson@ubc.ca |
Orthopaedics | Professor | 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 | Sensing and data analytics to study biomechanics; brain injury or concussion biomechanics; sensing, modeling, and machine learning; sleep biomechanics. |
Name & Contact Info | Other Affiliation | Roles | |
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Anthony Chan
anthony_chan@bcit.ca |
Biomedical Engineering, School of Health Sciences: British Columbia Institute of Technology |
Program Head
Faculty Member Adjunct Professor, SBME |
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Bruno Jaggi
bjaggi@bme.ubc.ca |
Simon Fraser University | Adjunct Professor
Engineering Advisor, LivSpek Medical Technologies Inc |
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Dan Kirouac
dkirouac@notchtx.com |
Notch Therapeutics | Adjunct Professor
Director, Systems Biology, Notch Therapeutics |
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Glen F. Tibbits
tibbits@sfu.ca |
Simon Fraser University | Professor
Tier I Canada Research Chair, |
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James A. McEwen
james.mcewen@ubc.ca |
Western Clinical Engineering Ltd.
MDDC Medical Device Development Centre Sirius Genomics Inc. |
Adjunct Professor
President, Western Clinical Engineering Ltd. Treasurer, MDDC Medical Device Development Centre Chair, Sirius Genomics Board of Directors |
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Pierre Lane
pierre.lane@ubc.ca |
Simon Fraser University
BC Cancer Research Center |
Affiliate Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University
Senior Scientist, BC Cancer Research Center |
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Robert Judson
rjudson@mail.ubc.ca |
Stemcell Technologies | Senior Scientist |
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Stephanie Willerth
willerth@uvic.ca |
University of Victoria | Professor
Canada Research Chair, Biomedical Engineering Acting Director, Centre for Biomedical Research (University of Victoria) |