2011

Congratulations to Rob Adamson and his wife Cara on the birth of their son!

From Rob "You can let everyone in the department know that baby Charlie was born healthy at 6lbs 13oz around 3pm on Tuesday.  Cara Charlie and I are all doing really well and we're getting ready to head home this afternoon.  Hopefully he'll get a chance to meet everyone real soon.

Take care,
Rob Adamson"

New awards more than $6 Million

• Jeremy Brown (PI) and the EAR and SENSE lab groups (co-pi's Manohar Bance and Rob Adamson) were awarded an Atlantic Innovation award totalling $3.8 million for developing new ear imaging technologies, and
• Danny Boyd, in Applied Oral Science and School of Biomedical Engineering with Mark Filiaggi, Bob Abraham (Interventional Radiology), Michael Dunbar (Orthopedics), and Barbara Campbell (ILI / Commercialization) were awarded 2.5 million for 'Minimally invasive systems for bone augmentation'

SBME Members were also involved in 2 create programs

• Manohar Bance and Don Weaver are co-investigator’s on a newly announced NSERC CREATE training program  in neurosciences called RADIANT for $1.65 million, (PI Aaron Newman - cross appointed Otolaryngology and Psychiatry) along with Ryan Darcy at NRC Biodiagnostics and others at Dal.
• Mike Lee is a co-investigator on a recently awarded cross-Canada Biomaterials program led by PI    at     University.

Success in Medical Devices at Business competitions:

And many of you may not have heard, but Florentin Wilfart, PhD Candidate in SBME and his team Purisorb Inc. (MBA students Christopher Humphries and Zach Silbernagel) coached by SBME faculty Dr. Michael Schmidt and David Roach as part of NSERC BioMedic training program, placed 2nd at the Nebraska Innovation Competition and is now invited to two top-tier international level competitions! They have been doing extremely well, placing first at Apex for the Atlantic region and 2nd at IVEY, and now they proceed to the Venture Labs Investment Competition (formerly Moot Corp)—the Super Bowl of investment competitions—in May, where they will compete against 31 of the top 32 business plan teams in the world. They will also be competing at the Rice Business plan competition as one of 42 selected form 510 applications.  Good luck Florentin and team!

Great work by all! These will have a lasting impact on the School of Biomedical Engineering, CDHA and Dalhousie University, and our community. Congratulations to all – outstanding,

Congratulations to Sandy Mansfield, our School's Administrator on being awarded the FGS Distinguished Service Award for support staff. This award is presented annually to a member or members of faculty or staff of the University who have provided outstanding service, other than teaching, to students. Dr. Sunny Marche, presented the award to Sandy May 12, 2011 to resounding cheers from students and faculty in attendence!

Congratulations to all of our award winners at this year's SBME Research Day

• Dr. Paul Gratzer wins the annual SBME Teaching Prize
• Dr. Adrian West wins the BME Community Building Prize
• Graeme Harding wins the Master's Marble Prize
  Research Day Presentation awards: 
• 1st Prize Derek Rutherford
• 2nd Prize Graeme Harding
• 3rd Prize Janet Conrad
• Honorable Mentions Swati Bhatawadekar

Congratulations to Dr. Danny Boyd who won the Bioport Innovation Challenge - winning a $30,000 prize. Three of the five presenters at the Bioport Atlantic Conference were from the school of BME.

Congratulations to Cheryl Kozey, Janie Wilson, Michael Dunbar, and William Stanish on receiving a CIHR operating grant for $160,000 over three years to study knee osteoarthritis progression and physical activity!

Congratulations to Cheryl Kozey, John Kozey, Janie Wilson, Scott Landry, Michael Dunbar, and William Stanish on receiving a NSHRF Scotia Support Trainee grant for $50,000!

Cheryl Kozey was awarded an NSERC ENGAGE grant with Uplift technologies for $25,000 to study their seat assist devices and stress on the musculoskeletal system.

Danny Boyd received a NSHRF Engage award and Mark Filiaggi was a co-applicant on this award.

Michael Dunbar won an Award of Excellence at the 2011 AAOS. Revision of a Ceramic Hip for Fractured Ceramic Components. Michael also won the 2010 J. Edouard Samson Award. The premier award for orthopaedic research in Canada, the $15,000 J. Edouard Samson Award recognizes the best early career orthopaedic research over a five (5) year or more period at a Canadian centre. 

Congratulations to Paul Gratzer and Geoff Maksym who both received awards for $100,000 from InnovacorpEarly Stage Commercialization Fund – Emerging Medical Technologies (ESCF-EMT).

2010

Congratulations to Dr Geoffrey Maksym on his appointment to becoming Director of the School of Biomedical Engineering. Dr Maksym has been acting director with Paul Gratzer for the last several months and we are happy to support him in his new role!

Congratulations to all of our award winners at this year's SBME Research Day.

• Dr. Jeremy Brown wins the annual SBME Teaching Prize
• Derek Rutherford wins the Doctoral Marble Prize
• Richard Roda wins the Master's Marble Prize
  The Marble Prizes are for outstanding scholarly achievement
• Research Day Presentation awards: 
• 1st Prize Sarah Connolly
• 2nd Prize Jonathan McDade
• 3rd Prize Richard Roda
• Honorable Mentions Swati Bhatawadekar and Caitlin Pierlot

Congratulations to Dr. Richard Price on receiving an NSERC Engage award of $25,000.

Congratulations to Florentin Wilfart and the team of business students who took first place at UNB’s Apex Business Plan Competition. The team consisted of CREATE Biomedical Engineering PhD student Florentin, and MBA students Christopher Humphries, Zach Silbernagel. The team’s business plan is for a new carbon dioxide absorber which eliminates toxic by-products produced within closed-loop anaesthetic circuits, which is a research project of Dr. Michael Schmidt, Department of Anesthesia.