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Thursday, January 2, 2020

Math is the new microscope

Breakthroughs in technology and computing are changing the way researchers approach medicine. Early scientists wielded the revolutionary tools of their time, such as the microscope, to understand human health. Today, researchers increasingly use math as a microscope to understand biology and medicine, dictating the need for scientists to navigate between the worlds of computations and medicine comfortably.

Anita Layton

WIN member Emmanuel Ho, anassociate professor at the University of ݮƵ School of Pharmacy and an international expert in nanomedicine, is developing a 3D-printed intra-vaginal ring (IVR) that would provide highly precise doses of medication to protect women from getting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS and kills one million people globally each year, according to UNAIDS.

Yannick in the labWhen he was a young boy growing up in Burkina Faso, Yannick Traore’s dad didn’t like to buy him toys. Yannick had a habit of taking things apart just to figure out how to put them back together. Even as a child, he needed to understand how things worked.

Today, Yannick’s putting that curiosity to good use as a PhD candidate in ProfessorEmmanuel Ho’s lab.

A medical technology startup co-founded by two nanotechnology students topped more than 100,000 applicants to takeand the $500,000 USD prize in an international competition staged in Saudi Arabia.

, which is based at the Velocity Garage in downtown Kitchener, won thefollowing a startup boot camp and several rounds of competition in Riyadh.

Scientists have created an “artificial leaf” to fight climate change by inexpensively converting harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) into a useful alternative fuel.

The new technology, outlined in a paper published today in the journal Nature Energy, was inspired by the way plants use energy from sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into food.

Three WIN members have been named fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and members of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

They are among 93 new fellows elected by their peers for outstanding scholarly, scientific, and artistic achievement and 46 new members of the College across Canada.

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Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Nanogenerators and the Future of Energy

There are many researchers searching for new and clean sources of energy. However, few are conducting research at the intersection of nanotechnology and quantum phenomenon. Professor Dayan Ban, from theDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is conducting seminal research in the area of quantum photonics and nanoelectronics.