| 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 |