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STUDENTS in the 2009-2011 COHORT - RESEARCH TOPICS
Students
Department
Research Topic
Baraa Al-Khazraji Medical Biophysics Sympathetic modulation of blood flow and red blood cell distribution: from feed arteries to microvessels.
Joseph Awad Postdoctoral Fellow Texture analysis of carotid artery atherosclerosis from 3-Dimensional ultrasound images.
Lazar Bojic Biochemistry Inhibition of macrophage foam cell formation by activation of the peroxisome proliferatr-activated receptor delta.
Colin Carruthers Anatomy & Cell Biology
Effect of ginseng on atherosclerotic plaque development in rabbits
Hua-Mei Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow
Medical Biophysics

Morphological and functional cardiovascular analysis using untagged cardiac cine MRI and cardiac CT.
Paul Comartin Biochemistry
Genetic and imaging biomarkers of vascular aging
Gemma Dias 
Medical Biophysics
Characterizing the vasculature response in pre-diabetic Zucker Diabetic Fatty rats wth varying PO2.
Henry Dunn

Physiology

Regulation of SHTZa receptor trafficking and signalling by PDZ proteins
Sandra Fahim Pharmacology & Toxicology The role of GRK2 in signaling and regulation of the adrenergic receptors
Jennifer Guadagno
Physiology
Investigating the role of Puma in neuronal apoptosis following ischemic injury
Erica Lee
 Biomedical Engineering
Development of 3D Nanofibrillar Structures for Heart Valve Tissue Generation
Reza Heydarian
Postdoctoral Fellow
Medical Biophysics
Developing image analysis tools for the evaluation of airway wall thickness in vascualr disease from optical coherence tomography
Feng Li Biomedical Engineering  Integration of dynamic ultrasound and virtual reality into a cardiac surgical planning system
Brandon Miles Biomedical Engineering Image Fusing for Medical Image Analysis
Mohammad Nambakhsh Biomedical Engineering Heart motion detection and abnormality classification
Luis Quail Anatomy & Cell Biology Angiotensin II cell signaling in valve interstitial cell calcification and apoptosis.
Jennifer Redwood
Anatomy & Cell Biology
Increasing tensile strength in a VIC surrogate for aortic valve tissue engineering
Manale Saikely
Biomedical Engineering
3D carotid ultrasound image analysis
Maryam Shirmohammad Biomedical Engineering Investigating the effective delays in prospectively cardiac gated micro computed tomography of mice
Igor Solovey
U Waterloo - Electrical & Computer Engineering
Automatic segmentation of 3D carotid ultrasound data using active contours
Jesse Tanguay Medical Biophysics  Spectral imaging for single-pass computed tomography angiography
Eranga Ukwatta Biomedical Engineering   3D Carotid arterial segmentation and analysis
Marin Vratonjic
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
The effects of hemodynamic shear stresses on endothelial cell response.
Geoff Zeni
Medical Biophysics
The contribution of sympathetic nerves to breat cancer tumour progression: the role of NPY receptor mediated neovascularization, angiogenesis, and cellular mitosis.