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Canada Research Chair in Fish and Environmental Immunology []

[UW Science News] June 15, 2018, À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Biologist mentors local teen, the 2018 International BioGENEius Challenge winner

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Stories] January 22, 2018 "Vaccines not protecting farmed fish from disease"

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Stories] February 13, 2014 "True love makes pacific salmon healthier"

[] October 9, 2013 "Science Scoop - For the love of fish!"

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Stories] September 9, 2013 "Video conferencing connects À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ biologist to young students"

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ News] February 6, 2019 "Researchers find new treatment for Chlamydia"

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ News] April 16, 2018 "Developing new way to fight transmission of HIV"

NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Water Treatment []

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Stories] March 14, 2013 "Protecting our drinking water for 20 years"

Research Interests:

• Clinical trial design
• Contact lens performance
• Drug delivery
• Ocular biomaterials
• Proteins at interfaces

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University Research Chair

Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

• Long-lasting Eye Drop Delivery Platform for Targeted Ocular Delivery Applications

Research Interests:

• Innate immunity of amphibians
• Regulation of innate immune cell development (macrophages, neutrophils) from progenitor cell populations
• Host-pathogen-environment interactions

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:

• High Resolution flexible pressure and tactile sensors

• Microbial fuel cells

• Nano electrodes for electrochemical detection

• Flexible Electrodes for bio-interfacing, electrical mapping self-powered devices

• Cell-inorganic composites
• Multi-functional materials and devices
• Wearable sensors
• Composite membranes

Research interests:

Research Interests:

• Protein and DNA separation analysis towards disease diagnosis and drug discovery

• Biosensing and Devices (bacterial, proteins, fluorescence)

• Living cell analysis and water toxicity testing

• Lab-on-a-Chip technology (point-of-care biomedical diagnosis , chemical detection, protein separation and identification, environmental testing)

• Micro-scale fluid mechanics, droplet microfluidics and nanofluidics

• High Throughput Screening For Drug Screening
• Manufacturing Nanomaterials and Carbon Management

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Canada Research Chair in Lab-on-a-Chip Technology []

[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Stories] June 14, 2012 "Creating the tiny future of science"

Research Interests:

• Experimental biological physics
• Stochastic processes in physics and biology
• Pysiological constraints on bioproduct synthesis

Lab Equipment: Imagestream MkII with 488nm, 642nm and 785nm lasers; 60x magnification

[] Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology 2015

Research Interests:

• Microalgae
• Microfluidics
• Biophotoreactors
• Biomass conversion
• Heterogeneous catalysis

[Engineering News] March 9, 2018 "Finds manure can yield energy and ease global warming"

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), bacteriophage-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:

• 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 discuss the 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" 

[] 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:

• MEMS/NEMS

• Nanodevices and carbon nanotube-based sensors for biomedical applications (early disease detection)

• Microassembly and micromirror devices for genetic microarray reading and tissue imaging

• Lab-on-a-chip designs

Canada Research Chair in Micro and NanoDevices []