Towards personalized medicine in diagnosis, prediction, and treatment.

  • To design and develop microfluidics platforms with applications in healthcare
  • Modeling, development and optimization of medical imaging devices
  • Using computational models to develop patient-specific treatments
  • Microfluidics
  • Nanomedicine
  • Drug Delivery
  • Medical Imaging Devices (PET, SPECT, CT)
  • Systems Biology
  • Mathematical Biology and Medicine
  • Biological Physics
  • Cancer Modeling
  • Tissue Engineering
  • Aerobiology & Microbiology
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Applications of systems and control theory to systems biology
  • Ecological Interface Design
  • MEMS & NEMS
  • Bio Mimetics
  • Neuroscience & Neurofeedback
  • Microelectronic circuits
  • Drug development, drug toxicity screening, drug target discovery
  • Point of care diagnostic tools
  • International collaborative projects
  • Winter and summer schools
  • Online courses
  • Dual degree programs
  • Conferences, workshops and talks

Steering Committee Members

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Dr. Madjid Soltani

Department of Mechanical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran

  • Bio-Engineering
  • Bio-Chemical Engineering

Dr. Pu Chen

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada

  • Materials
  • Bio-Medicine
  • Energy

Dr. Karim S. Karim

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada

  • Silicon thin-film applied research
  • Microelectronic circuits
  • Device and process development for large area electronics

Dr. Arman Rahmim

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA

  • Tomographic medical devices
  • Hardware engineering, signal processing, machine learning
  • Computer observer modeling
  • Biological compartmental modeling

Dr. Mohammad Kohandel

Department of Applied Mathematics of the University of Waterloo, Canada

  • Cancer heterogeneity and plasticity
  • Tumor Microenvironment
  • Combination of Cancer Treatments
  • Nano-Drug Delivery
  • Second Cancer
  • Evolutionary Modeling

Dr. Bobak Mosadegh

Biomedical Engineering in Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA

  • Radiology
  • Bio-Medical Engineering

Dr. Syed A. Sattar

Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada

  • Microbiology

Dr. Brian P. Ingalls

Department of Applied athematics, University of Waterloo, Canada

  • Applications of systems and control theory to systems biology

Dr. Catherine Burns

Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada

  • Human factors engineering
  • Systems engineering
  • Safety
  • Ergonomics
  • Design Process
  • Cognitive engineering
  • Human error
  • Decision making
  • Interface Design and Integration
  • Usability Testing and Interactive Technology
  • Ecological Interface Design
  • Cognitive Work Analysis
  • Graphical interface design and visualization

Dr. Bahram Zargar

Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada

  • Environmental Microbiology

Dr. Mohammad R. Kaazempur Mofrad

Departments of Bio-Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA

  • Environmental Microbiology