Dec.6th, 2018: USPTO published our patent “ E. Ghafar-Zadeh and F. Awwad, “Functionalized Optical Lens and Method of Manufacturing” US-2018-0348498-A1” Congratulations!

November 27, 2018: Congratulations to Samaneh for the acceptance of her Journal paper.

November 23, 2018: Professor Ghafar_Zadeh gave a keynote in IEEE London http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/ https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/180985?utm_source=YFile_Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=The-Scoop&utm_campaign=yfile

November 1st, 2018: News about the CMC Award on DNA Sequencing Project ( http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2018/10/31/lassonde-graduate-students-win-awards-for-work-in-dna-sequencing/?utm_source=YFile_Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=Top-Stories&utm_campaign=yfile)

October 28-30th: 2018 BioSA presented four papers in LSC 2018 in Montreal.

October 24, 2018: Congratulations to Zhongpan Wu for receiving the CMC award. Zhongpan Wu is working on DNA sequencing Project.

October 5, 2018: Congratulations to Saghi for acceptance of her journal paper in Sensor, MDPI.

September 15, 2018: Congratulations to BioSA including Sonia and Azita for the acceptance of our 4 papers in IEEE Life Science for oral presentation.

August 15th, 2018: Congratulations to Qiao for the completion of his summer project and his presentation in the Lassonde undergraduate conference day.

August 15th, 2018: Congratulations to all high school students who completed their summer research in BioSA.

August 12th, 2018: Congratulations to Ghazal and all for our publication in the most prestigious IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

Smart Cell Culture Monitoring and Drug Test Platform Using CMOS Capacitive Sensor Array

August 6-8th: BioSA actively participated in EMBC 2018.

1. Hardware Accelerated DNA Sequencing, Zhongpan Wu, Karim Hammad, Yunus Dawji, Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh, Sebastian Magierowski
2. Age-Related Macular Degeneration Diagnostic Tools: Hardware and Software Development, N. Mohaghegh, S. Munidasa, Q. Owen, X. Ziho, Sebastian Magierowski, Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh,
3. A Non-Invasive Characterization Method for MEMS Based Devices, A Panahi, Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh, Sebastian Magierowski, M. Sabour.
4. FPGA-Based DNA Basecalling Hardware Acceleration, Zhongpan Wu, Karim Hammad, Robinson Mittmann, Sebastian Magierowski, Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh, Xiaoyong Zhong

Congratulations to all in particular Zhongpan Wu for receiving the best demonstration's postion.

July 16-22 2018:BioSA is actively participated in EMBC 2018.

July 11th: We proud of stating the first day of biomedical training program for Grade 11th female high Schule students This program is under the lassoed mentorship program. Thanks to all supports ( Parastoo, Azita, parveen, Sonia, Qiao, Morteza and Negin, Giancarlo and Amin and Ulya and Marisa).

June 18th, 2018: Welcome to Negin Masoumifar - Our new master student to BiOSA.

June 19th, 2018: Congratulations to BioSA members i for the acceptance of our papers 1-3 in MWSCAS 2018.

1. N. Mohaghegh, S. Munidasa, Q. Owen, Z. Zahio, E. Ghafar-Zadeh, S. MagierowskiAge-Related Macular Degeneration Diagnostic Tools: Hardware and Software Development, IEEE MWSCAS, Windsor, August 2018.
2. ZP. Wu, K.Hammad, R Mittmann, S. Magierowski, E.Ghafar-Zadeh and X. Zhong, FPGA-Based DNA Basecalling Hardware Acceleration, IEEE MWSCAS, Windsor, August 2018.
3. A Panahi, E. Ghafar-Zadeh, S. Magierowski, M. Sabour, A Non-Invasive Characterization Method for MEMS Based Devices, IEEE MWSCAS, Windsor, August 2018.

May 15th,, 2018: The presentation of “ Saghi Forouhi et al. High Throughput Core-CBCM CMOS Capacitive Sensor for Life Science Applications” in CCECE 2018 in Quebec city.

April 7th, 2018: The acceptance of BioSA papers in EMBC 2018, Congratulations to Gianacrlo, Samal, Xiaoyong , Zhongpan, Abbas and all BioSA members.

1. G Ayala-Charca, S. Munidasa, E. Ghafar-Zadeh, S. Magierowski” A High-Throughput Impedimetric Platform for Biological Analysis: Design, Implementation and Experimental Results”.
2. X Zhong, Z Wu, E Ghafar-Zadeh, S Magierowski* ” 3rd Generation DNA Sequencing with Embedded Neural Networks”
3. E. Ghafar-Zadeh ” Core-CBCM CMOS Capacitive Sensors for Life ScienceApplications: Recent Progresses and Future Prospects,” Special Session's Speaker.
4. A Panahi, E. Ghafar-Zadeh, S. Magierowski, M. Sabour” Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of Electrokinetics Transport of Aqueous Solution through Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes: A New Membrane Model for Nanopours Based Biosensors”
5. E. Ghafar-Zadeh, S. Magierowski“ Hynrid Microfluidicc CMSO (imCMOS) for life science applications” Tutorial.

March 9th, 2018: BioSA will presents a paper titled “High Throughput Core-CBCM CMOS Capacitive Sensor for Life Science Applications” in CCECE. Congratulation to Saghi Frouhi for her contribution.

Feb. 23rd, 2018: A new paper titled “Microbiological Sensing Technologies: A Review” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Bioengineering. Congratulation Firouz and BioSA members.

Feb. 17-21, 2018: Presentations in 62 Annual Biophysical Society Meeting ( BPS 2018), San Francisco, USA. Our Presentations were as follows.

1. Sonia Tan et al. HIGH-THROUGHPUT CELL SCREENING FOR SPIONS STUDIES USING IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY
2. Azita Saber et al. MICROSCOPY ELECTROPORATION PROBE
3. Azita Saber et al. HIGH THROUGHPUT ELECTROPORATION SYSTEM FOR BIO-MOLECULE DELIVERY INTO ZEBRAFISH FOLLICLE.

Congratulations to Azita, Sonia.

Jan. 28, 2018: Congratulations to Behzad Mehrafrooz and Maysam Z. Pedram for the publication of a new paper titled “ An Improved Method for Magnetic Nanocarrier Drug Delivery across the Cell Membrane” in Sensors , MDPI, Jan.28, 2018.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/2/381/

Jan. 17, 2018: Congratulations to Sonia for receiving York Scholarship Award.

Jan. 12, 2018: E. Ghafar-Zadeh gave a talk in Dr. Kelly's group and visited their amazing research lab “https://www.kelleylaboratory.com/ ”.