| 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 |