| Project Title | Primary Supervisor | Primary Supervisor FoM Department, Division | Co-Supervisor | Co-Supervisor Department/ School (Faculty) | Postgrad Student Advisor | Students | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A biomaterials-based approach for axon guidance and growth | Dr. Dena Shahriari | Orthopaedics | Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff | Department of Zoology | Elham Mohseni | Peter Jung & Brianna Tsuyuki | Axon regeneration, biomaterials, 3D printing, hydrogels |
| Exploring techniques used to elicit and record optimal pudendal nerve somatosensory evoked potentials in able-bodied controls | Dr. John Kramer | Anesthesiology Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Dr. Tania Lam | School of Kinesiology | Lukas Linde | Jason Anasori, Meghan Henry & Lauren Platz | Somatosensory evoked potentials; Pudendal nerve; Spinal cord injury; Electroencephalography; Peripheral Nerve Stimulation |
| Finding breast cancer relapses in pathology reports using natural language processing | Dr. Alan Nichol | Surgery | Dr. Raymond Ng | Department of Computer Science | Yolanda Yang | Nikolay Alabi, Jaimie Lee & Annah Zhang | |
| Gender pathways into and out of biomedical engineering | Dr. Negar Mohaghegh Harandi | Biomedical Engineering | Dr. Agnes D'Entremont | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Jessica Wolf | Misato Law & Krishma Singla | Gender, biomedical engineering, program selection, career path, mixed methods |
| Machine learning enabled high-throughput single cell isolation for cancer genomics using inkjet printing. | Dr. Adi Steif | Medical Genetics | Dr. Karen Cheung | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Eric Cheng | William Gervasio,Taylor Goldblatt & Kipling Ng | biomedical devices, cancer genomics, bioinformatics, tissue processing |
| Blinded by Granzyme B: a key contributor in the development of age-related macular degeneration | Dr. Joanne Matsubara | Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Dr. Myeong Jin Ju | School of Biomedical Engineering | Daniel Yoo | Eric Ai, Khola Bilal & Natalie Ma | extracellular matrix, blood-eye barrier, retina, vision, blindness, neuroscience |
| PhysViz: validation of a new telerehabilitation platform | Dr. Alex Scott | Physical Therapy | Dr. Calvin Kuo | School of Biomedical Engineering | Kipling Squier | Max Honey & Dennis Tanujaya | telerehabilitation; tendon strain; evidence-informed healthcare |
| Unraveling drug- and virus-specific biosignatures using high-content and super resolution microscopy. | Dr. Ivan Robert Nabi | Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Dr. Francois Jean | Department of Microbiology and Immunology | Jimena Perez-Vargas & Milene Ortiz-Silva | Danielle Gordon & Kshemaka Gunawardena | Covid-19, organelles, membrane contact sites, anti-virals, super-resolution microscopy |
| Towards data-rich, accurate diagnostics at the point of need: biofunctionalization of multiplexed silicon photonic biosensors | Dr. Karen Cheung | Biomedical Engineering | Dr. Sudip Shekhar | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Samantha Grist | Sajida Chowdhury & Jaden Sequeira | Biosensors, Microfluidics, Silicon Photonics, Point-of-Care Diagnostics |
| Turning pain off - Neurophysiological markers of pain 'onsets' and 'offsets' in response to contact heat | Dr. Michael Berger | Medicine | Dr. John Kramer | School of Kinesiology | Lukas Linde | Atrina Shadgan & Christina Whang | Pain, Neuroimaging, Electroencephalography, Temperature, Pain rating |
| Project Title | Primary Supervisor | Primary Supervisor FoM Department, Division | Co-Supervisor | Co-Supervisor Department/ School (Faculty) | Postgrad Student Advisor | Students | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host directed therapies in Tuberculosis | Dr. Yossef Av-Gay | Medicine, Infectious Diseases | Dr. Elitza Tocheva | Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Sciences) | Leah Rankine-Wilson | Echo Zhou, Jessica Shen, N/A | TB, Infectious disease, Imaging, CRISPR, Westerns |
| Understanding breakthrough neuropathic pain | Dr. Michael Berger | Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation | Dr. John Kramer | School of Kinesiology (Faculty of Education) | Lukas Linde | Hannah Ro, Sohat Sharma, Margot Schmidt | ecological momentary assessment, neuropathic pain, DN-4, breakthrough episodes, peripheral neuropathy |
| Capture of human movement in the real world: Integration of markerless motion capture with gamified rehabilitation | Dr. Lara Boyd | Physical Therapy | Dr. Sarah Kraeutner | Department of Psychology (Faculty of Arts) | Justin Andrushko | Anna Zhu, Kaylee McGeough, N/A | Movement tracking, machine learning, motor learning, stroke, artificial intelligence |
| Project discovery: COVID-19 | Dr. Ryan Brinkman | Medical Genetics | Dr. Ali Bashashati | School of Biomedical Engineering (Faculty of Applied Sciences) | Sebastiano Montante | Leon Li , Quentin Michalchuk, N/A | COVID-19, machine learning, bioinformatics, flow cytometry |
| Analytical validation of silicon photonic biosensors | Dr. Karen Cheung | Biomedical Engineering | Dr. Sudip Shekhar | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Faculty of Applied Sciences) | Samantha Grist | Nick Tang, Akshay Khale, N/A | Biosensors, Microfluidics, Silicon Photonics, Point-of-Care Diagnostics |
| Open code academic health platform | Dr. Mike Figurski | Medicine | Dr. Zheng Liu | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Faculty of Science) | Debsasha Sarkar | Rahma Hamza, Anthony Moss, N/A | interdisciplinary open simulation platform team |
| Development and application of natural language processing and machine learning to accelerate breast cancer research | Dr. Kathryn Isaac | Surgery | Dr. Raymond Ng | Department of Computer Science (Faculty of Science) | Caroline Illmann | Annah Zhang, Christy Kwok, N/A | Artificial intelligence, Breast Cancer, automation, prediction |
| Temperature dependency of tonic pain responses: A comparison of tonic cold and tonic heat pain protocols to assess temporal summation in humans | Dr. John Kramer | Anesthesiology Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Dr. Jean-Sébastien Blouin | School of Kinesiology (Faculty of Education) | Lukas Linde | Jaimie Lee, Nazanin Sadoughian, N/A | Pain, Neuroimaging, data processing, EEG |
| Quantitative localization of autonomic neurons activated by exercise and neuromodulation after spinal cord injury | Dr. Andrei Krassioukov | Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation | Dr. Tania Lam | School of Kinesiology (Faculty of Education) | Tamila Kalimullina | Aaryan Dwivedi, Chantal Lam, N/A | spinal cord injury, spinal cord stimulation, passive exercise, autonomic dysreflexia, CUBIC tissue clearing |
| Characterization of the neurodegenerative features in the retina associated with eye and brain diseases | Dr. Joanne Matsubara | Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Dr. Myeong Jin Ju | School of Biomedical Engineering (Faculty of Applied Science) | Printha Wijesinghe | Matt Campbell, Miranda Tsuyuki, Charles Li | neurons, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), in-vivo imaging, amyloid beta, mouse models |
| Evaluating the role of transcervical 3D ultrasound imaging of the oropharynx during transoral robotic surgery | Dr. Eitan Prisman | Surgery | Dr. Septimiu Salcudean | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Faculty of Applied Science) | Wanwen Chen | Angela Li, Katya Zaraska, N/A | transoral robotic surgery, ultrasonography, head and neck |
| Wastewater-based surveillance of infectious diseases | Dr. Natalie Prystajecky | Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Dr. Ryan Ziels | Department of Civil Engineering (Faculty of Applied Science) | Xuan Li | Finn McCord, Paniz Ataei, N/A | wastewater-based epidemiology, molecular biology, next-generation sequencing |
| Validation of a bluetooth-enabled load cell for objective and accessible assessment of lower extremity strength and symmetry | Dr. Alex Scott | Physical Therapy | Dr. Cameron Mitchell | School of Kinesiology (Faculty of Education) | Kohle Merry | Josh Seto, Spencer Pratt, N/A | telerehabilitation; muscle; evidence-informed healthcare |
| Minimally invasive technologies for spinal cord injury | Dr. Dena Shahriari | Orthopaedics | Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff | Department of Zoology (Faculty of Applied Science) | Shahriar Shalileh | Alex Golab, Stephanie Wilkinson, Ken Ong | Axon regeneration; biomaterials; spinal cord injury; polymers; magnetic actuation |
| Using digital pathology with spatially resolved gene expression for biomarker discovery | Dr. Amrit Singh | Anesthesiology Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Dr. Raymond Ng | Department of Computer Science (Faculty of Science) | Yolanda Yang | Patrick Thangarajah, Gurjot Hothi, Kayla Korolek | PyTorch, mRNA, imaging, spatial transcriptomics, digital pathology |
| High-throughput cell isolation for cancer genomics using inkjet printing | Dr. Adi Steif | Medical Genetics | Dr. Karen Cheung | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Faculty of Applied Science) | Eric Cheng | Jared Chan, William Rees-Jones, N/A | biomedical devices, cancer genomics, bioinformatics, tissue processing |
| Project Title | Primary Supervisor | Primary Supervisor FoM Department, Division | Co-Supervisor | Co-Supervisor Department/ School (Faculty) | Postgrad Student Advisor | Students | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-invasive neuromodulation for treatment of autonomic dysfunctions after spinal cord injury | Dr. Andrei Krassioukov | Medicine, Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine | Dr. Tania Lam | School of Kinesiology (Faculty of Education) | Rahul Sachdeva | Ali Hosseinzadeh, Tamila Kalimullina & Marco Law | spinal cord injury, transcutaneous stimulation, non-invasive, bowel, autonomic |
| Woodsmoke exposure-on-a-chip | Dr. Chris Carlsten | Medicine, Respiratory Medicine | Dr. Karen Cheung | School of Biomedical Engineering (Faculty of Applied Science) | Min Hyung Ryu & Tanya Bennet | Bora Jin & Hana Zhang | air pollution, airway disease, wildfire, microfluidics, lung-on-a-chip |
| A biomaterials-based platform coupled with drug delivery to induce nerve repair after spinal cord injury | Dr. Dena Shahriari | Department of Orthopaedics | Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff | Department of Zoology (Faculty of Science) | Shahriar Shalileh | Adan Moallemi & Nadine Truter | Nerve regeneration, nerve repair, drug delivery, biomaterials, spinal cord injury |
| Development of universal/stealth red blood cells by novel cell surface engineering methods | Dr. Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu | Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Dr. Stephen Withers | Department of Chemistry (Faculty of Science) | Haisel Moon | Waris Bhatia & Aanisah Golam | Universal Blood, Stealth RBCs, Cell surface engineering, ECO-RBC, Polysialic acid |
| Biomedical Ophthalmic Imaging of the Retina and Ex Vivo Validation of Cell Degeneration in Mouse Models of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) | Dr. Joanne Matsubara | Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Dr. Myeong Jin Ju | Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and School of Biomedical Engineering (Faculty of Applied Science) | Manjosh Uppal | Grace Hu & Jacob Ng | blood-retinal barrier, granzyme B, adaptive optics, eye imaging, retina |
| Three-dimensional, microscale in vitro model for studying axon growth | Dr. Karen Cheung | School of Biomedical Engineering | Dr. John Madden | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (Faculty of Applied Science) | Tanya Bennet | Michelle Ling, Noah Stewart & Lily Yang | biomaterials, axon regeneration, 3D cell culture, microfabrication |
| Establishing a data processing pipeline using artificial intelligence to capture human kinematic data: DeepLabCut as a markerless motion capture system | Dr. Lara Boyd | Department of Physical Therapy | Dr. Nicola Hodges | School of Kinesiology (Faculty of Education) | Sarah Kraeutner | Sowmya Gopalakrishnan, Fatemeh Khounsarian & Devyani McLaren | Movement tracking, machine learning, motor learning, human kinematics, artificial intelligence |
| Measuring balance deficits in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) | Dr. Michael Berger | Medicine, ICORD | Dr. Mark Carpenter | School of Kinesiology (Faculty of Education) | Kyle Missen | Angus Chan & Kai Leong | chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, balance, falls, autoimmune, concurrent validity |
| Cellular and molecular biomarkers to predict vaccine responses in newborns | Dr. Scott Tebbutt | Medicine, Respiratory Medicine | Dr. Gabriela Cohen Freue | Department of Statistics (Faculty of Science) | Abhinav Checkervarty | William Gervasio, Emili Gubskaya & Madison Hung | Vaccines; newborns; multi-omics; statistics; data visualization |
| Host signalling as target for TB therpaeutics | Dr. Yossef Av-Gay | Medicine, Infectious Diseases | Dr. Elitza Tocheva | Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Science) | Leah Rankine-Willson | Hasti Haghdadi & Hana Rahili | Tuberculosis, Phagosome acidification, Macrophages, Drug development |