====== News 2018 ======


**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/]]
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**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. 
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**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.
  - Hardware Accelerated DNA Sequencing, Zhongpan Wu, Karim Hammad, Yunus Dawji, Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh, Sebastian Magierowski
  - Age-Related Macular Degeneration Diagnostic Tools: Hardware and Software Development, N. Mohaghegh, S. Munidasa, Q. Owen, X. Ziho, Sebastian Magierowski, Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh, 
  - A Non-Invasive Characterization Method for MEMS Based Devices, A Panahi, Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh, Sebastian Magierowski, M. Sabour. 
  - 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. 

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July 16-22 2018:BioSA is actively participated in EMBC 2018. 
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**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. 
  - 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. 
  - 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.
  - 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.
  - G Ayala-Charca, S. Munidasa, E. Ghafar-Zadeh, S. Magierowski” A High-Throughput Impedimetric Platform for Biological Analysis: Design, Implementation and Experimental Results”.
  - X Zhong, Z Wu, E Ghafar-Zadeh, S Magierowski* ” 3rd Generation DNA Sequencing with Embedded Neural Networks” 
  - E. Ghafar-Zadeh ” Core-CBCM CMOS Capacitive Sensors for Life ScienceApplications: Recent Progresses and Future Prospects,” Special Session's Speaker.
  - 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”
  - 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.
  - Sonia Tan et al. HIGH-THROUGHPUT CELL SCREENING FOR SPIONS STUDIES USING IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY
  - Azita Saber et al. MICROSCOPY ELECTROPORATION PROBE
  - 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/ ".