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Monday, June 3, 2024

Tünde and Natasha awarded external scholarships

Two graduate students from our team were awarded prestigious scholarships! Tünde Lapohos received the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) in 2024/25. Tünde is working on the development of in vitro tissue models to track how cellular responses might be affected by different biomaterials and design strategies. Natasha Kunchur was awarded a CIHR... More

Sunday, June 2, 2024

Dr. Mostaço-Guidolin secures a CIHR Project Grant

With a success rate of around 15% and in close collaboration with Dr. Edana Cassol from the department of Health Sciences, (and co-Applicant in the proposal), Dr. Mostaço-Guidolin was awarded a 5-year CIHR Project Grant Mapping ECM Remodelling in Asthma Using Multimodal Imaging and Physiologically-Relevant Tissue Models.  More information can be... More

Saturday, June 1, 2024

Nadia is the winner of the ‘People’s Choice’ 3MT competition!

Nadia did an excellent job at the annual Carleton 3MT competition presenting her research with the talk Breath of Life in just 3 minutes. She ended up winning the People's Choice award in the 2024 edition. The lab was also represented by Tünde who ended up being a finalist, presenting  Development of a 3D ‘Lung-on-a-Chip’... More

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Natasha has been awarded two(!!) national scholarships

Natasha Kunchur, a PhD student in our team, has been awarded two highly competitive national scholarships! Natasha accepted the award sponsored by the Canadian Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Foundation (CAAIF), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (CIHR-ICRH). The award is supporting her... More

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Dr. Mostaço-Guidolin is now a Canada Research Chair!

Dr. Mostaço-Guidolin was awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in the area of Imaging and Biomaterials Characterization. With her great team, Dr. Mostaço-Guidolin is developing imaging methods to understand fibrosis better and its role in chronic lung diseases. The team is focused on combining 3D bioprinting and optical microscopy, looking at... More

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Poster Competition Winners at the TEAM Hub Workshop!

The 1st TEAM Hub Workshop happened at Carleton University on June 26-28th, 2023. We had a chance to listen to amazing talks in several areas, connect with experts from different institutions and of course, visit posters presented by several trainees. The research presented by all trainees was very interesting and the poster judges had... More

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Winner of ‘Outstanding Research Competition’ at CMBEC45!

Last week, Dr. Mostaço-Guidolin was in Vancouver BC, participating in the 45th Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference. Besides being lucky to have nothing less than perfect sunny weather on the beautiful West Coast, the team was awarded the 1st prize for the 'Outstanding Research Competition', with the work titled: Visualization... More

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

New paper alert: 3D bioprinting vascular networks

Dr. Mostaço-Guidolin and her collaborators from the NRC, uOttawa, and the Department of Physics published a very interesting paper combining a novel collagen-based bio-ink to trigger angiogenesis. They looked into the ECM remodelling using optical microscopy! If you want to read the work, please check it here. Angiogenesis driven extracellular... More

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

New paper alert: Atherosclerotic plaque classification using ML

Congratulations to Natasha! She published her first research paper about the application of machine learning to characterize atherosclerotic lesions, imaged with CARS microscopy. For more information, please visit this page. Development of an image classification pipeline for atherosclerotic plaques assessment using supervised machine learning... More

Sunday, February 26, 2023

New paper alert: bioengineering lungs

Congratulations to Shahad on publishing her first review paper about methods to bioengineer artificial lung tissues. For more information, please visit this page. Bioengineering lungs: An overview of current methods, requirements, and challenges for constructing scaffolds Chronic respiratory diseases remain a significant health burden worldwide.... More

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Defense Alert!

After a long journey, facing all the challenges associated to the COVID-19 pandemic, lab closures, delays...she successfully completed her project titled: "Morphological Effects of the Microenvironment Structure on Human Fetal Lung Fibroblast Cells". Congratulations to Shahad on successfully defending her... More

Friday, April 8, 2022

We have a 3 Minute Thesis awardee!!!

On April 6th, Carleton University hosted its annual 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition and we had a representative from our lab there. Natasha Kunchur presented her talk 'Asthma: The Breath Taking Experience' and was awarded 3rd place in the competition! You can find the full results here. Great job, Natasha!... More

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