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Branches 鈥� 听成人大片鈥檚 Community Outreach Program 鈥� 听along with representatives from several STEM faculties, spent a week delivering workshops in Chisasibi, Quebec, including a DNA extraction session led by Prof. Adam Hendricks. Read more .听(May 2024)

The Department of Bioengineering would like to congratulate this year's recipient of the 2023 Leslie A. Geddes听Award, Dr. Mahsa Jalali (Supervisor: Prof. Sara Mahshid). Dr. Jalali听received this award for her PhD thesis entitled, "On-Chip Plasmonic Nanosurface for Molecular Profiling of Single Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer Liquid Biopsy." (Feb 2024)

We are pleased to announce that Professor Amine Kamen is among nine experts who were recently appointed by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to its Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC). Read more (November 2023)

We are pleased to announce that Prof Caroline Wagner and Prof Sara Mahshid are both winners of the final round of the MI4 Pfizer Early Career Investigator Award.听The overarching goal of MI4 is to bring together investigators from across the 成人大片 community and its partners to foster interdisciplinary research. Please join us in congratulating our professors on their successful submissions! Read more here. (September 2023)

A job well done to Professor Dan V. Nicolau, Professor听Ayyappasamy Sudalaiyadum Perumal,听Serban, Dobroiu, and听Shantoshini Dash, for their contribution in an article that reached a cover of the reputed journal ACS Sensors. To read their article, Spatially Addressable Multiplex Biodetection by Calibrated Micro/Nanostructured Surfaces,听please click .

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's BBME Symposium! To view some highlights from the event, please click . (May 2023)

The Panel of Editors for all IEEE journals, held in Chicago last week, occasioned a gathering of all Canadian Editors in Chief - and 成人大片 is behind and center of all. (May 2023)

Check out this video by Prof Natalie Reznikov and Prof Marc D. McKee on their studies in the field of Biomineralization, using the听Zeiss听Xradia Versa听3D X-ray microscope. Watch it . (January 2023)

The Department of BioEng is accepting submissions of original digital artwork for the proceedings of course BIEN 200, also known as . The submission period is open from January 1st until April 30th, 2023. This opportunity is open to all 成人大片 students, so please feel free to share. Read more about this opportunity here. (January 2023)

Congrats to our award recipients at this year鈥檚 Celebration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, hosted by 成人大片 Engine. Prof. Sara Mahshid, Prof. Allen Ehrlicher, and Dr. Roozbeh Siavash Moakhar were awarded the William and Rhea Seath Awards in Engineering Innovation, and Prof. Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu was awarded the TechAccelR Grant. Job well done to all for these great achievements! For photos of the event, click . (December 2022)

Congratulations to Professor Sara Mahshid and Postdoctoral Researcher Roozbeh Siavash on their听innovation in COVID and RSV testing, without nasal swabs. Their NFluidEX device offers 100 per cent accuracy in as little as 10 minutes, and can be configured to detect a range of ailments. You can read this article . (November 2022)

The schedule for the BIEN 200 Symposium for Fall 2022 is now available! Check it out here. (November 2022)

Congratulations to our Teaching Lab Manager, Yulemi Gonzalez Quesada, who recently published two articles in the IJMS journal. They are available to read in PubMed Central and (November 2022).

Check out our new Hyperbook, Nature鈥檚 Design Toolbox.听The curated proceedings illustrate, analyze and systematize the nontrivial and parsimonious biological adaptations in the context of Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics.听Besides being a source of inspiration and creativity, the Hyperbook is intended to help bioengineering applicants and undergraduate students choose their preferred bioengineering stream. Read more . (November 2022)

Congratulations to Professor Natalie Reznikov听who is among the 15 成人大片 researchers who received a total of $3.9 million from the听, for her听project on Cryo-SEM/Cryo-FIB/SEM Preparation System. Read this . (September 2022)

A big congratulations to Professor Natalie Reznikov who is the 2023 Winner of听the听Award for Innovation in Applied Microscopy for Engineering and Physical Sciences from the听Royal Microscopical Society (RMS), for听outstanding scientific achievements in applying microscopy in the fields of engineering and physical sciences. Read this . (September 2022)

Congratulations to 成人大片 iGEM, which features 3 students from our Bioengineering department, on being one of the Top 10 teams at the 2022 Grand Jamboree in Paris! Read this . (October 2022)

A Research Article titled "A Versatile Biomimic Nano-Templating Fluidic Assay for Multiplex Quantitative Monitoring of Viral Respiratory Infections and Immune Responses in Saliva and Blood" by Roozbeh Siavash Moakhar; Carolina del Real Mata; Mahsa Jalali and supervised by Prof Sara Mahshid was recently published in Advanced Science.听This is a collaborative effort supported by CIHR and MI4 in the context听of COVID-19 in collaboration with the Department of Medicine at 成人大片 University, Jewish General Hospital (Dr. Chen Liang) and听Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.听Read this . (October 2022)

Professor Allen Ehrlicher and his lab recently published an article titled "Cell monolayer deformation microscopy reveals mechanical fragility of cell monolayers following EMT" in Biophysical Journal. Read this . (February 2022)

The Department of Bioengineering will be offering two new courses, BIEN 414 and BIEN 585,听in Winter 2022. (December 2021)

Dr. Amine Kamen recently published an article titled " ". (July 2021)

It goes without saying that the Department of Bioengineering is immensely proud of its first undergraduate cohort and their graduating students. We hope that you take your perseverance, ambition, and enthusiasm wherever life carries you. F茅licitations, parab茅ns, congratulazioni, felicitari, selamat bertuang, CONGRATULATIONS to you all!! (June 2020)

Prof. Sara Mahshid and Prof. Amine Kamen are featured in the article "From developing a vaccine to creating antiviral materials, six Engineering professors are channeling their research efforts towards the fight against COVID-19". (May 2020)

We are proud to announce that Prof. Amine Kamen鈥檚 group will be one of 47 research teams across Canada to receive government funding towards COVID-19 research. On March 6th, we welcomed Honorable Jean-Yves Duclos, President of the Treasury Board, for a tour of Prof. Kamen鈥檚 lab.
Read more . (March 2020)

Our very own Dr. Dan V. Nicolau was recently appointed as the Editor in Chief听(EiC) of Transactions on NanoBioscience (TNB). Read more aboutEiC and the transactions in Nanobioscience (December 2019).

Dr. Xia and his lab published an article on Nature Communications titled "Estimating dispensable content in the human interactome". Read the article .

(October 2019)

Dr. Nicolau听published an article on PNAS titled听Intracellular mechanisms of fungal space searching in microenvironments.听
His team's research involved using time-lapse live-cell imaging of听Neurospora crassa听in microfluidic environments to show how constraining geometries determine the intracellular processes responsible for fungal growth.
Read more about his paper 听(September 2019).

Dr. Matt Kinsella recently published titled "Engineering bioprintable alginate/gelatin composite hydrogels with tunable mechanical and cell adhesive properties to modulate tumor spheroid growth kinetics".听

(August 2019)

The Bioengineering team went international! Professors Georgios Mitsis and Dan Nicolau took off to Berlin with Departmental Manager Antonella Fratino and Lab Manager Xavier Elisseff to attend the听
(July 2019)

Graduate student Jaqueline Kort Mascourt was awarded a second place prize for her recent poster presentation at the annual Canadian Biomaterials Society meeting in Quebec City (May 2019).听

Tao Jiang, a doctoral graduate of the Kinsella lab, and fellow labmates have recently published a review article in covering the physical mechanisms controlling extrusion bioprinting and development of bioprinted tissue models. The article has been selected by the editor as a featured article and will be showcased in an upcoming special issue of APR focused on the physical and chemical mechanisms of bioprinting.
(March 2019)

Jacqueline Kort-Mascort, a doctoral student in the Kinsella lab, has co-authored a paper with colleagues and collaborators from the Faculty of Dentistry including lead author Alaa Mansour and Prof. Simon Tran and Prof. Faleh Tamimi in the journal . The team extracted extracellular matrix components from bone as an extract that was shown to modulate the immune response of bioceramics and enhance bone regeneration in vivo. Jackie helped develop a gel that would enable sustained localized release of the extracts at the site of insult.
(March 2019)

Dr. Sara Mahshid was one of fifteen 成人大片 researchers to receive grants from the .

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Dr. Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu recently published an article with his lab members听Sara Kheireddine,听Ayyappasamy Sudalaiyadum Perumal, and听Zachary J. Smith, along with chair and professor Dr.听Dan V. Nicolau. Their article, "",听was published in the journal Lab on a Chip, and presents听the first time a system comprised of two mobile phones, one for illumination and the other for microscopy, as a portable, user-friendly, and cost-effective microscopy platform for a wide range of applications. (February 2019)

Professors Dan Nicolau and Sebastian Wacshmann-Hogiu attended the听 2019听conference in San Francisco from February 3rd听- February 6th. Dr. Nicolau - who also chaired the event - presented the Prizmatix Young Investigator Award to the best paper at the conference. (February 2019).听

Professor Dan Nicolau and his lab have recently had 2 papers published online. The first, , was published in Elsevier鈥檚 Biosensors and Bioelectronics journal. The second, , can be found in Interface Focus through The Royal Society鈥檚 publishing. (October 2018)

The Department of Bioengineering will be exhibiting at the in Atlanta, Georgia from October 17 鈥� 21, 2018. Swing by booth #319 to meet 成人大片 University鈥檚 Bioengineering crew! (October 2018)

The Department of Bioengineering is proud to be the first department at 成人大片 to gain silver certification by the Office of Sustainability鈥檚 Sustainable Workplace Certification. The program is part of 成人大片鈥檚 Vision 2020 Climate & Sustainability Action Plan, which aims to improve the university鈥檚 environmental and socio-economic impact. If you鈥檇 like to get involved and make a difference on campus, check out the Office of Sustainability鈥檚 website. (July 2018)

Prof. J. Matt Kinsella and members of his lab have been featured in a video article in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). Their article, , can also be read on their website. (July 2018)

We are pleased to announce that three of our professors have been promoted by 成人大片鈥檚 Board of Governors this summer. Professor Allen Ehrlicher and Professor J. Matt Kinsella have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, and Professor Yu (Brandon) Xia to the rank of Full Professor. Congratulations! (July 2018)

Professor Amine A. Kamen will be co-chairning the upcoming conference presented by Engineering Conferences International (ECI). This year, the conference will take place at Mont-Tremblant from June 17 - 22. (June 2018)

On April 23, 2018, the Department celebrated the grand opening of their new office space located in MC 350. A special thank you to our distinguished guest, 成人大片 alumna Marika Roy, whose contribution established the Department of Bioengineering. (April 2018)

Professor Sara Mahshid鈥檚 paper, ,听was recently published in the journal . (April 2018)

Tao Jiang, a third year Ph.D. student in Prof. Matt Kinsella鈥檚 lab, presented at the in Atlanta, Georgia. Check out the for details on his talk: 鈥渓ginate/Gelatin as a Bioprinting Ink to Tailor Tumor Spheroid Formation.鈥� (April 2018)

The Department of Bioengineering is proud to announce it has been awarded bronze by The Sustainable Workplace Certification Program. It is the first unit in the Faculty of Engineering and one of the first units at 成人大片 to be participating in the program, as part of Vision 2020 Climate & Sustainability Action Plan. If you want to learn more about how you can get involved, visit the Office of Sustainability鈥檚 website. (April 2018)听听

Professor Matt Kinsella presented 鈥溾�� at fourth annual BioEngineering 2018 conference in Boston, Massachusetts. (March 2018)

Professor Dan Nicolau was invited to speak at in Buckinghamshire, England. You can listen to Prof. Nicolau鈥檚 talk, 鈥淐omputing with Motile Biological Agents Exploring Networks,鈥� . (March 2018)

Congratulations to Pooja Pushparaj, Master鈥檚 student in Prof. Kinsella鈥檚 lab, on being a co-first author on the article entitled 鈥溾�� published in ACS NANO Publications. This is a collaborative project between 成人大片鈥檚 BBME program, Stanford University, and Harvard Medical School, investigating how cells from male or female patients interact with nanoparticles differently. (March 2018)

Professors Dan Nicolau and Sebastian Wacshmann-Hogiu attended the conference in San Francisco from January听27 - February 1.听Nicolau - who also chaired the event - presented the Prizmatix Young Investigator Award to two young scientists for the work they presented at SPIE Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XIV. (February 2018)

Two papers from Prof. Adam Hendricks' group have recently been published online:听, and听. Linda Balabanian, co-author of the first paper, has kindly written a summary听which can be read here. (February 2018)

Department Chair, Prof. Dan Nicolau, discusses the growing industry demands for bioengineers in . (November 2016)

The Department was proud to exhibit again this year at the (October 5-8) in Minneapolis, MN. (October 2016)

It was our pleasure to meet our first cohort of undergraduate students at our orientation session on August 31st! (August 2016)

Prof. Matt Kinsella is featured in Medicine Focus for his research involving non-invasive cancer detection. You can read more about his use of nanoparticles to track tumors in "." (June 2016)

The Department of Bioengineering proudly participated in the 10th and the . (May 2016)

We are please to announce that three abstracts from Prof. Matt Kinsella's research group have been published online: , and. These topics will be presented by the group at the upcoming in Montreal (May 17-22). (April 2016)

Prof. Dan Nicolau is featured on for the development of an energy-efficient biological supercomputer. This biocomputer, which has the ability so solve multiple, complex mathematical problems simultaneously, is only the size of a book. Read more about his findings in his article, , published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). (February 2016)

We proudly announce Prof. Amine Kamen as in Bioprocessing of Viral Vaccines. (November 2015)

On October 1st, the Department of Bioengineering welcomed colleagues from 成人大片, neighboring universities, and industry to its first annual Lab Open House. Guests were given personal tours of state-of-the-art facilities and were offered a glimpse at the kind of research conducted on site. (October 2015)

The Department of Bioengineering exhibited at the Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida from October 7-10. (October 2015)

Professor Allen Ehrlicher's article, , was published in the in the Journal PNAS.听
Commentary on above article by W.Ahmed and T.Betz: . (May 2015)

Professor Allen Ehrlicher's article, , was published in the in the Journal Scientific Reports. (February 2015)

The Department of Bioengineering will be exhibiting at the Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas from October 22-25. (October 2014)

Professor Allen Ehrlicher's article, , was published in the in the Journal Cell and featured in . (August 2014)

Department Chair, Dan Nicolau, will be chairing the upcoming . (August 2014)

Professor Allen Ehrlicher's article, , was published in the Journal Blood. (July 2014)

Professor Dan Nicolau was an invited speaker at the in Hannover, Germany where he presented his talk: From Molecular Motors to Fungal Intelligence. (July 2014)