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[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ News] September 25, 2018 "Virtual reality motion sickness may be predicted and counteracted"

[] December 15, 2018 "Aging warps our perception of time, study finds"

[] October 12, 2017Ìý"Aging slows perception of falls: UW study"

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[Global Impact±ÕÌý°Ú] April 30, 2018Ìý"Working with gene therapy to treat glaucoma"

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Stories] July 5, 2012 "Revolutionary drug delivery"

[] August 10, 2018 "Revealing the atomistic details behind the binding of B7–1 to CD28 and CTLA-4: A comprehensive protein-protein modelling study"

[] August 27, 2019 "ComprehensiveÌýin vitroÌýcharacterization of PD-L1 small molecule inhibitors"

[] "The complex issue of emotion"Ìý

[] June 29, 2017 "ACT@Home: An emotionally intelligent cognitive assistant to help people with Alzheimer’s disease"

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Stories] January 2, 2013 "Making life easier for those living with Alzheimer's"

Research Interests:

• Design/discovery of potential therapeutics to target various diseases
• Understanding the structure and pharmacology of membrane proteins
• Development of in silico methods/tools for sequence, structure and functional analysis
• Inferring the structure-function evolution of proteins
• Protein engineering for biotechnology and pharmaceutical applications

[] January 23, 2012 "Exploring Inhibitor Release Pathways in Histone Deacetylases Using Random Acceleration Molecular Dynamics Simulations"

[] July 27, 2013 "Ligand release mechanisms and channels in histone deacetylases"

[] December 19, 2013 "A steered molecular dynamics mediated hit discovery for histone deacetylases"

[] May 8, 2017 "ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates"

[] October 24, 2017 "Reverse engineering: transaminase biocatalyst development using ancestral sequence reconstruction"

Research Interests:

• Improving nutrition and health in hospitals, long term care and the community
• Dementia

[] March 15, 2019 "Good food, better healing: How GRH is studying to improve food for patients in hospital"

​[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ News] March 23, 2017 "Survey will reduce rates of malnutrition in hospitals"

Research Interests:

• Biomedical systems & biomechatronics - rehabilitation, assistive devices, intelligent design of prostheses and orthoses, 3D body surface measurement
• Optomechatronics - computer vision (2D and 3D),Ìýrange-image registration,Ìýrange-sensing, range-sensor design,Ìývision-based 3D surface measurement systems,Ìýoptical system design, laser-camera range, sensor design, phase-shifting / fringe-projection 3D surface measurement systems,Ìýreal-time full-field 3D imaging sensors / real-time full-field 3D surface measurement systems,Ìýhand-held 3D imaging sensors / hand-held 3D surface measurement systems,Ìývision-based robot control, vision-based human-robot interfaces
• Robotics - robot teleoperation,Ìýrobot vision,Ìýhuman-robot interfaces, human-robot interaction,Ìýhuman-guided robot learning,Ìývision-based robot control (visual servoing),Ìýhuman-assistive/service robots

Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

• Real-Time Full-Field 3D Shape Measurement

Research Interests:

• Biophysics of lipids and lipid-protein interactions

• The role of structural changes and physical properties of lipid template in controlling biological processes and diseases

• Biomedical nanotechnology (lipid films, molecular mechanism of Alzheimer's disease)

• Drug development and delivery systems, antimicrobial peptides in lung disorders

• Fluorescence and atomic force microscopy

• Kelvin probe force microscopy and single molecule force spectroscopy

[Global Impact] May 2018, studying Alzheimer's at a molecular level to find a cure

[] October 1, 2014 "Scanning probe microscopy in biomedical research"

Research Interests:

Research interests:

• Aging andÌýneurodegeneration
• Movement disorders
• Gait kinematics
• Neuropsychology and neurocognitive assessment
• Mood, emotionÌýand cognition
• Fear, threat, anxietyÌýand depression
• Virtual reality

Research interests:

• Neurodegeneration
• Huntington Disease
• Autophagy
• Apoptosis
• Fatty acylation

Research Interests:

My research focuses on brain plasticity and the neural control of movement. I utilize non-invasive methods, like transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electroencephalography (EEG), to study the neural correlates of performance and skill learning in healthy and clinical populations. In particular, my current focus is centred upon how different brain systems underlying motor control/learning interact to determine brain plasticity with an emphasis on enhancing stroke rehabilitation.

Research Interests:

• Proteins: folding, misfolding and aggregation, structure, dynamics, and function
• Protein engineering and design
• Protein thermodynamics and kinetics
• Biophysical chemistry and biochemistry
• Bionanotechnology and biomaterials
• Biochemistry and Biophysics
• Smart Materials
• Biomaterials, Polymers and Bioplastics
• Theranostic Materials
• Smart and Functional Materials
• Molecular Therapeutics and Theranostics
• Nanomaterials
• Bionanotechnology and Biosensors
• Soft Matter
• Drug Discovery, Design and Delivery
• Bioinformatics, Systematics and Evolution

​[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ News] November 24, 2015Ìý"New insights into protein structure could change the future of biomedicine"

°Ú​Chemistry News] August 20, 2014 "Chemist Elizabeth Meiering takes on the ALS ice bucket challenge"

Research Interests:

• human-robot interaction
• wearable robots
• rehabilitation robots
• intelligent assistive devices
• humanoid robots
• human movement analysis
• optimal control
• model-based control
• multibody systems modeling

Research Interests:

• Drug discovery
• Rational drug design and medicinal chemistry
• Cancer therapy
• Treatment of neurological disorders (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's)
• Drug discovery/rational design
• Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel organic molecules and peptides/peptidomimicsÌýas therapeutic agents

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[Science News] October 22, 2018 "Nekkar lab determines that depression medications can help treat Alzheimer’s disease"

​[Pharmacy News] July 29, 2015 "À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ pharmacist examines drug therapies for Alzheimer’s disease"

Research Interests:

• Neural networks and neural learning algorithms
• Dynamical systems and scientific computing
• Computational neuroscience

[CBB researcher story] July 20, 2015 "Computational Perception: How a brain understands its environment"

Research Interests:

• Machine learning and reasoning under uncertainty (artificial intelligence, computational statistics, decision and control theory)

• Health informatics (assistive technologies, behaviour recognition, smart walkers, Alzheimer’s monitoring)

• Natural language understanding (dialogue management, semantic analysis)

[] May 11, 2018, weighs in on how Google's A.I. personal assistant sparks concerns about future of communication

[] May 8,2018, haveÌýties with a new Montreal sports analyticsÌýresearch lab in Kitchener

[] February 5, 2018 "Borealis AI increases brain power by adding top AI talent"

[] February 4, 2018 "How we can leverage AI to bridge academia and business"

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Stories] April 12, 2013 "Breaking the fall: Smart walker will help prevent injuries"

Research Interests

• Early Cancer Detection
• Eliminating Positive Surgical Margins
• Non-contact Biopsies for EndoscopyÌý
• Functional Brain ImagingÌý
• Early Detection and Understanding the Age-related Vision Loss Problems
• Wound Care
• Cardiovascular
• Machine learning/AI

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Alternate Location:

• Satellite Campus, UW-Schlegel Research Institute for Aging, Research Building, Sensors and Devices Lab

Research Interests:

• Bio-wearable electronics and systems
• Bio-electromagnetics, bio-technology, bio-sensors and energy harvesting systems
• RF/microwave/millimeter wave/Terahertz (THz) circuits and antenna systems
• Radio frequency (RF)/microwave packaging and Electromagnetic compatibilityÌý
• (EMC)/Electromagnetic interface (EMI) analyses
• Vehicle and UAV wireless communications, navigation systems, and telematics systems
• Complex propagation and scattering phenomena
• Devices and novel electromagnetic materials and wireless sensors

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Awards:

• Top downloaded paper in Medical Physics (arXiv) – October 2019
• Best Imaging Paper, CVS, 2018
• ACM MobileHCI 2017 Best Worskshop Paper Award
• IEEE APS 2017 SPC Honorable Mention Paper Award
• IEEE Sensors Most Popular Article (March 2017)
• IEEE Sensors Annual Volume Cover Page

[CBB Events] November 15, 2019 "Professor Shaker organizes a Health Canada Regulatory insights Workshop"

[] November 11, 2019 "Scientists develop sensor to save children and pets from hot car deaths"

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ News] October 29, 2019 "Advancing healthcare through innovative technology"

[] June 3, 2019 "Study: Radar Monitors Sleep with Accuracy Comparable to Current Standards"

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ News]Ìý June 28, 2018 "AI and radar technologies could help diabetics manage their disease"

[Engineering News] June 28, 2018 "Researchers developing a prick-free glucose monitor"

[] June 28, 2018 "AI and Radar Technologies Could Help Diabetics Manage Their Disease"Ìý

[Engineering News] July 5, 2016 "À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ wins big with tiny power device"

Research Interests:

• Biomechanics
• Mathematical modeling of hydrocephalus
• MathematicalÌýoncology

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[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Stories] January 16, 2018 "Math can predict how cancer cells evolve"

Research Interests:

• Drug discovery, delivery systems and nanomedicine

• Gene therapy, microbial genetics

• Oncology, Antiviral therapeutics design

• Anti-bacterials

• Acne cosmeceutical design

• Phage-based biotechnology

• Viral exclusion systems

• Cosmeceuticals

• Vaccine design (dementia),Ìýbacteriophage-based biotechnology, use of coliphages to design and construct vectors for the development of novel vaccines, pharmaceuticals and gene delivery systems, and the identification and application of novel phage genomic anti-bacterial genes with potential phage therapy applications.

• Strategic management in Pharmacy; healthcare reform

Research Interests:

• Calcium channel analysis for target drug delivery for treatment of pain, arrhythmias, angina, and potential benefits in treatment of epilepsy and cancer.

• Structure, function and pharmacology of calcium channels and sodium channels

• Structure and function and analysis of NALCN cation channelÌý and anti-calcium channel toxins

• The Spafford Neurobiology Research Laboratory studies voltage-gated calcium channels, molecular physiology, biophysics, cell biology, protein biochemistry, fluorescence microscopy and tissue cultures.

[Science News] April 25, 2014 "À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ discovers a key regulator in the pacemakers of our brain and heart"

Research Interests:

• Electrophysiological characterization of neuromuscular disorders

• Autonomous and knowledge systems

• Machine perception and sensors

• Image processing and analysis, pattern analysis and recognition

• EMG signal decomposition, simulation and quantitative EMG and DQEMG

• Biomedical engineering

Research Interests:

• Rehabilitation engineering and assistive technologies (gerontology, Osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, fall risk in stroke survivors, and rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury)

• Neuromotor control

• Biomedical signal analysis

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[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Stories] July 8, 2014 "GPS technology may help detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier"

Research interests:

• Aging
• Balance and mobility impairment
• Central nervous system function
• Wireless sensor technologies

[] August 31, 2019 "Key factors for the assessment of mobility in advanced dementia: A consensus approach"

[] September 26, 2019 "Wearable technologies to improve health outcomes in people with neurodegenerative diseases?"

Research Interests:

• Biomedical image processing and analysis (prostate, breast, lung and dermatological cancer analysis, retinal photoreceptor and blood vessel analysis, musculoskeletal kinematic analysis

• Remote sensing data processing and analysis (sea ice, underwater object, oil spill analysis)

• Perceptual based video and image processing (noise reduction, compression, enhancement)

• Computer vision and pattern recognition

• Multimedia management systems

• 3D graphics and game development

• Cognitive radio networks

Canada Research Chair in Medical Imaging Systems []

[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ News] [±ÕÌý°Ú] May 16, 2018, Co-authors discussÌýthe use of aerobic fitness data from wearable tech to predict illness

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ News] May 15, 2018 "Researchers combine wearable technology and AI to predict the onset of health problems"

[Global Impact] [] [] April 11, 2018 "How AI is helping doctors diagnose Cancer"Ìý

[] February 9, 2018 "How TheRedPin aims to take a swipe at the real estate industry"

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ News] June 7, 2017 "Artificial intelligence-driven imaging research makes diagnosing disease easier"

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Stories] January 28, 2017 "Artificial intelligence and the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ-Toronto tech supercluster"

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Stories] May 20, 2016 "Breakthrough tech helps doctors more accurately diagnose cancer"

[CBB researcher story] January 9, 2013 "Improving Early Diagnosis to Save Lives"

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Stories] January 9, 2013 "Making it harder for cancer to hide"

[] October 1, 2014 "Integrative systems for biomedical imaging and analysis"

Research interests:

• Vision rehabilitation
• Systems for optimizing patient care outcomes
• Retinal disease
• Pharmacology.

Research Interests:

• Stem cells, nanofabrication and advancement ofÌýbiomaterialsÌýin healthcare technologies to repair, replace or regenerate damaged tissue and organ structures

• Fabrication and application of nano-structure for biomedical applications in neural, vascular, and cornea tissue engineering

• ​Biomaterial approach to studyÌýex-vivoÌýpluripotent stem cell expansion

• Modulation of cell behavior with nanotopography

• Topography-regulation of stem cells lineage commitment and differentiation

• Differentiation of adult and pluripotent stem cells with nanotopography