====== BioSA News 2020 ======
  * **Dec. 10, 2020**: Congratulations to John for the publication of his paper in Actuators(see publications 1). 
  * **Dec. 4,2020:** Congratulations to BioSA and our collaborator for granting our patent in google patent. https://patents.google.com/patent/US10809513B2/en
  * **Dec. 3, 2020:** Congratulations to BioSA and our collaborators for publications of two papers in Analytical Chemistry and IEEE Transactions on VLSI (see publications 3,2).

  * **Nov 11, 2020:** BioSA Research on COVID-19 was featured. Congratulations to All.
  - CMC:[[https://www.cmc.ca/on-the-road-to-success/]]
  - SOSCIP: [[https://www.soscip.org/covid19/]]
  - YFile: [[https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2020/11/10/lassonde-leads-novel-research-on-detection-tool-for-hidden-symptoms-of-covid-19/]]
  - Lassonde: [[https://lassonde.yorku.ca/articles/lassonde-leads-novel-research-detection-tool-hidden-symptoms-covid-19]]


  * **Nov 6, 2020,**: Congratulations to Saghi for the acceptance of her review paper in //Micromachines, MDPI//.
  * **October 5, 2020,**: Congratulations to Deniz for publishing her review paper in //Trends in Analytical Chemistry//.
  * **September 1st:** Congratulations to Abbas and Mahta for receiving Scholarship from Parya Trillium Foundation http://paryascholarship.com/#
  * **July 27:** BIOSA receives another support from Mitacs during this Pandemic. __Congratulations to Hamed__ for receiving RTA Mitacs scholarship in Fall 2020.
  * **July 10, 2020,** Congratulations to Negin for her successful defence.
  * **June 17, 2020,** Congratulations to Deniz for receiving the very important Elia Scholars Program Award.
  * **June 10, 2020,** BioSA and CMC collaborate on a Mitacs supported project to fight COVID 19. __Congratulations Abbas, Hamed and Shahin__ for receiving very important Mitacs scholarship awards (Thanks Abbas for preparation of below beautiful poster). 
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  * **June 9, 2020,** Congratulations Azita for receiving very important OGS Scholorship.
  * **May 7, 2020,** Congratulations John for receiving very important CGS-M Scholorship.
  * **March 27, 2020**, **__Virtual BioSA Lab__**: Invited Talk, Dr.  Melahat YILDIRIM, Towards  Microfluidic Development for Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Cells Studies, Online Zoom
  * **March 26, 2020**. Congratulations to Abbas for the acceptance of his Journal paper [1]
  * **March 25, 2020**, **__Virtual BioSA Lab__**: Invited Talk, Dr. Oksana Kutova, Biomolecular and chemical sensors based on silicon field-effect structures, Online Zoom
  * **March 10, 2020,**: Welcome to new Ph.D. students- Tina Shaffaf and Deniz Sadighbayan in BioSA. They starts at York in September 2020.
  * **Feb. 29, 2020**: Congratulation to all authors of following accepted papers in CCECE 2020:
  - H. Osouli Tabrizi, S. Magierowski, E. Ghafar-Zadeh, Toward Versatile CMOS Capacitive Sensors for Cellular Monitoring, IEEE CCECE 2020, April 26-29, London, Canada.
  - M. Munidasa, P. Baghaie, E. Shim, O. Lin, E. Ghafar-Zadeh, A Bedsheet for Baby Monitoring at Night: Measurement and Characterization Results, IEEE CCECE 2020, April 26-29, London, Canada.
  - A. Panahi, P. Ghasemi, E. Ghafar-Zadeh, A New Capacitive MEMS Flow Sensor for Industrial Gas Transport Monitoring Applications, IEEE CCECE 2020, April 26-29, London, Canada.
  - K. Qiao, A. Nikerson, S. MacDonald, E. Ghafar-Zadeh, A Non-Invasive Wireless Respiratory Monitoring System for Animals' Behavioural Studies, IEEE CCECE 2020, April 26-29, London, Canada.
  - N. Sohrabi, M. Pedram, E. Ghafar-Zadeh, Dynamics Targeting Through Cell Membrane: MD Simulation Approach in CNT-Based Drug Delivery Application, IEEE CCECE 2020, April 26-29, London, Canada.

  * **Feb. 25, 2020:** Professor Ghafar-Zadeh membership in IEEE elevated to IEEE Senior Member 
  * **Feb. 6, 2020:** Happy birthday Mahta

  * **Jan. 31, 2020:**  Hamed successfully passed his qualification PhD exam. Congratulations to Hamed for his great achievement.  This exam was held at 11:00 am at LAS 3033. 
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  * **Jan. 16, 2020:**  Azita successfully passed her Preliminary PhD exam. Congratulations to Azita for her great achievement.  The exam was held at 10:00 am in FARQ 270. 
  * **Jan. 1st, 2020:**  Happy New Year to all BioSA current members and alumni.