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What if hip or knee surgery allowed patients to walk within 30 minutes, climb stairs in an hour, and go home just two hours later? Thanks to a groundbreaking innovation developed by University of Waterloo alumni, this is becoming a reality for patients around the world. Intellijoint Surgical Inc., a Kitchener-based medical technology company founded by Waterloo engineering grads Armen Bakirtzian (BASc ’08), Andre Hladio (BASc ’08) and Richard Fanson (BASc ’08), is revolutionizing joint replacement surgery. What began as a fourth-year engineering design project is now transforming outcomes in hip and knee surgeries for patients across the globe. More: https://lnkd.in/ggeuhmaQ Co-operative and Experiential Education at University of Waterloo University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering University of Waterloo Alumni

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When Dr. Pieter Cullis arrived at UBC as an undergraduate physics student in 1964, he had no idea he would one day help develop a scientific breakthrough that would protect billions of people worldwide—or that his work would help fuel BC’s booming biotech sector. His story shows how ideas that emerge at UBC power jobs, companies and communities across BC. Over the decades, Dr. Cullis has co-founded more than a dozen UBC spinoff companies and non-profits and helped grow a globally recognized biotech industry that now employs thousands across British Columbia. Many of his former students now lead or work at some of BC’s most innovative life sciences ventures. UBC’s economic impact is all around us. “What excites me most is knowing the next big breakthrough could come from someone just starting out at UBC today,” he says. Read more: https://bit.ly/4lmjThy Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia Innovation UBC

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The Accelerator Centre and the City of Waterloo are launching a new program to help 45+ MedTech startups excel in our exceptional health innovation ecosystem. 🔗⬇️ The goal of the program is to help startups reach their first round of funding and commercialize their technology. The program also aims to create 100+ skilled jobs in digital health and support long-term partnerships between startups, academic institutions and health organizations. The program comes on the heels of a new hospital announcement in Waterloo. The acute care hospital is slated for a site in the David Johnston Research + Technology Park at the University of Waterloo, boosting investment and R&D in the medical sector. Read more about Waterloo’s thriving MedTech sector: https://hubs.ly/Q03MN4Bd0

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#STEMatLaurier: Tamar Barth, a fourth-year Wilfrid Laurier University Health Sciences student, is studying how to treat human coronavirus using the body's immune system. 🔬 “For my research project, we are adding the same lab-made dsRNA to human lung cells to measure how it affects the virus’s nucleocapsid protein, which is crucial for coronavirus to replicate,” says Barth. “Our goal is to provide further evidence of how the RNA interference pathway targets human coronavirus.” She is inspired by her supervisor, Professor Stephanie DeWitte-Orr, and wants to work in health care someday to make a difference in people's lives. Find out how Tamar's innovative research could help stop the spread of coronavirus: https://ow.ly/4oB250UVTiB

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The breakthrough discovery of a brand new antibiotic discovered in the lab of McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences researcher Jon Stokes could unveil a promising new treatment option for millions of people affected by Crohn’s disease and other related conditions. The scientific breakthrough was twofold, with McMaster researchers teaming up with researchers at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) to use a new type of AI to predict exactly how the drug works. To their knowledge, this a global first for the AI. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d6zewi2W

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Today’s NSF IUCRC C2SHiP  ThinkTank featured an inspiring talk by Parnian Majd, B.Eng, M.Eng , Founder & CEO of Fibra Inc., a Toronto-based startup renowned as one of Canada’s fastest-growing women-led companies. Majd unveiled Fibra’s innovative smart underwear paired with an intuitive app, a non-invasive, data-driven platform that delivers continuous, personalized fertility insights via comfortable wearable technology. This innovation marks a significant leap forward in women’s health, shifting the paradigm from reactive care to proactive, evidence-based reproductive monitoring. As Fibra expands beyond fertility into pregnancy, contraceptive support, menopause, and even disease detection, the potential impact is profound . I’m excited by the promise of this breakthrough and look forward to collaborating with Parnian and her team to accelerate the transformation of women’s health into a proactive, personalized reality. #WomensHealthTech #FemTech #ProactiveCare #ReproductiveHealth #DigitalHealth #WearableTech #HealthInnovation #SmartUnderwear #WomenInLeadership #PersonalizedMedicine #StartupSpotlight #C2SHIP #TechForGood #digitalhealth #wearables #proactivecare #careinplace Janet Roveda David Armstrong Chiara Daraio Kouhyar Tavakolian Marjorie Skubic Margaret Halstead

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Sask Polytech is proud to announce the renewal of its Digital Integration Centre of Excellence as a Technology Access Centre, backed by $1.75 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). https://lnkd.in/gpRR6cw2

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We’re excited to share that three Sunnybrook projects have been generously funded through the new Weston Brain Institute Grants at Sunnybrook which will support research for neurodegenerative conditions. Congratulations to Drs. Nir Lipsman, Meaghan O’Reilly, and Chao Wang on receiving support to advance research in focused ultrasound (FUS) and other areas of brain science. This announcement comes at the heels of the 5-year anniversary of the Weston Focused Ultrasound Initiative, which is supporting the next generation of a state-of-the-art FUS device at Sunnybrook. These grants, made possible by the Weston Family Foundation, continue to accelerate innovation in preventing and treating neurodegenerative diseases – building on a legacy of homegrown discovery at Sunnybrook. Read more: https://ow.ly/lKwy50WYaP3

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Big News from Georgian College! We’re proud to share that Georgian has received $1 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to expand our Centre of Industrial Simulation and Prototyping — a major step forward in supporting Ontario’s manufacturing sector and advancing Industry 5.0 innovation. This investment will allow us to: 🔹 Acquire advanced digital-simulation software 🔹 Integrate flexible manufacturing modules 🔹 Strengthen virtual-to-real-world prototyping capabilities 🔹Help Ontario manufacturers adopt next-generation tech faster As a newly designated Technology Access Centre, we’re committed to helping businesses adopt transformative technologies, reduce risk, and build resilient supply chains — all while preparing our students to lead in a rapidly evolving economy. 📢 Read the news release: https://ow.ly/Ba4w50X9XtV

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🎓 Beyond the Thesis with Zhijing Jin, University of Toronto & Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme Zhijing Jin is an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, a CIFAR AI Chair, and a faculty member at the Vector Institute, where she works on LLMs, multi-agent AI, and responsible AI for social good, with a focus on AI safety and scientific discovery. She earned her PhD under the co-supervision of Bernhard Schölkopf (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) and Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich), where she combined NLP and causal inference to develop methods that make large language models more robust, trustworthy, and capable of reasoning about cause and effect. Watch the interview highlights below👇 📖 Read the full interview with Zhijing here: https://lnkd.in/eJbzh-5r This interview series offers ELLIS PhD alumni perspectives on the ELLIS PhD Program: its benefits and challenges, its impact on their careers, and their views on the future of AI research.

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