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Meet the researchers in the Biomedical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence Cluster.

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Purang Abolmaesumi

Purang Abolmaesumi
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Focus: Biomedical Engineering, Computer / Image Guided Diagnostics, Computer-Assisted Surgery, Digital Pathology, Machine Learning, Medical Image Analysis, Ultrasound Imaging

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Ali Bashashati
Assistant Professor, Director of AI and Bioinformatics Research
OVCARE, School of Biomedical Engineering, UBC

Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Breast Cancer, Cancer Genomics, Computational Biology, Digital Pathology, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Ovarian Cancer, Signal Processing

François Bénard
Professor
Radiology

Research Focus: Cancer Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, PET/SPECT, Radiopharmaceuticals

Peter Black
Professor, Senior Research Scientist
Urologic Sciences

Research Focus: Bladder Cancer, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Prostate Cancer, Tissue Classification, Ultrasound Imaging

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Silvia Chang
Associate Professor
Radiology

Research Focus: Abdominal Imaging, Alzheimer's, Liver Cancer, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Prostate Cancer, Radiology, Ultrasound Imaging, Urology

Keng Chou
Associate Professor
Chemistry

Research Focus: Cancer Diagnosis, Super-Resolution Optical Microscopy, Virus-Host Interactions

Dan Coombs
Professor
Mathematics

Research Focus: Biophysics, Immune Cell Signaling, Theoretical Immunology, Virus Dynamics

Robin Coope
Instrumentation Group Leader

Research Focus: Clinical and Research Lab Instrumentation, High Throughput Genomics, Medical Devices

Leanne M. Currie
Associate Professor
School of Nursing

Research Focus: Health Informatics, Nursing, User-centred design, Wound Diagnosis & Management

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Bruce Forster
Professor
Radiology

Research Focus: Diagnostic Imaging, Hip Injuries, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Sports Medicine

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Rafeef Garbi
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Applications, Computer Vision, Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Medical Image Computing

Mike Gelbart
Instructor
Master of Data Science, Computer Science

Research Focus: Machine Learning

Blake Gilks
Head of Department, Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Research Focus: Breast and Gynecological Pathology, Cell Biology, Digital Pathology, Molecular Pathology, Ovarian Cancer

Kenneth Gin
Professor
Medicine

Research Focus: Cardiac Imaging, Cardiology, Echocardiography, Image Registration, Machine Learning, Ultrasound Imaging

Martin Gleave
Professor
Urologic Sciences

Research Focus: Androgen Receptor, Cancer Biology, Molecular Inhibitors, Prostate Cancer, Treatment Resistance, Urology

Larry Goldenberg
Professor
Urologic Sciences

Research Focus: Digital Pathology, Machine Learning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Multi-parametric Ultrasound, PET-Based Diagnostics/Theranostics, Prostate Cancer, Tissue Classification

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Kurt Haas
Professor
Cellular & Physiological Sciences

Research Focus: Autism, Calcium Imaging, Epilepsy, Neuroscience

Urs Hafeli
Professor

Research Focus: Drug Delivery, Magnetic Microspheres, Nanomedicine, Nuclear Medicine, Quantitative Preclinical Imaging, Radiopharmaceuticals

Ghassan Hamarneh
Professor
Computer Science

Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Cancer, Computer Vision, Deep learning, Medical Image Analysis, Radiomics

David Huntsman
Director of OvCaRe, Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Research Focus: Cancer Genomics, Digital Pathology, Genomic Pathology, Molecular Diagnostics, Ovarian Cancer, Rare Tumours

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Piotr Kozlowski
Associate Professor
Urologic Sciences, Radiology

Research Focus: Brachytherapy, Cancer Imaging, Luminal Water Imaging, MRI/MRS, Multi-Parametric MRI, Myelin Imaging, Prostate Cancer, Spinal Cord Injury

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Stephen Lam
Professor
Medicine

Research Focus: Cancer Screening, Computerized Tomography, Diagnostic Imaging, Lung Cancer

Pierre Lane

Pierre Lane
Senior Research Scientist
Imaging Unit, Integrative Oncology Department

Research Focus: Autofluorescence Imaging, Cancer Screening, Confocal Microscopy, Optical Coherence Tomography

Sabrina Leslie

Sabrina Leslie
Associate Professor, Michael Smith Laboratories
Department of Physics and Astronomy

Research Focus: Biotechnology, Fluorescent Microscopy, Instrumentation and innovation, Nanoparticle interactions and dynamics, Nanoscale devices, Nucleic acid interactions, Oligonucleotide therapeutics, Single-molecule biophysics

Xiaoxiao Li

Xiaoxiao Li
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Focus: Biomedical Imaging, Health Informatics, Machine Learning, Privacy, Trustworthy AI

Kuo-Shyan Lin
Associate Professor
Radiology

Research Focus: Cancer Imaging, Endoradiotherapy, Molecular Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Peptide Receptors, Positron Emission Tomography, Radiopharmaceuticals

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Hongshen Ma
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering

Research Focus: Cell Biomechanics, Cell sorting, Circulating Tumor Cells, Image Cytometry, Machine Learning, Malaria Research, Microfluidics, Single Cell Sequencing, Transfusion medicine

Calum MacAulay
Clinical Associate Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Research Focus: Confocal Imaging, Digital Pathology, In vivo tissue imaging, Lung Cancer, Molecular Pathology, Prostate Cancer

Alex MacKay
Professor
Physics and Astronomy

Research Focus: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Myelin Water Imaging, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Brian MacVicar
Professor
Psychiatry

Research Focus: Astrocyte, Brain Swelling, Cerebral Blood Flow, Cytotoxic Neuronal Edema, Intracellular Calcium, Intracellular Chloride, Neurovascular Coupling, Two Photon Microscopy, Whole Cell Voltage Clamp

Kim McGrail
Professor
Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, School of Population and Public Health

Research Focus: Data Governance, Healthcare Equity, Visual Analytics

Martin McKeown
Professor
Neurology

Research Focus: Basal Ganglia, Cerebellum, Electrodermal Activity, Electroencephalography, Electromyography, fMRI, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Kinematics and Posturography, Parkinson's

Jim Morris
Clinical Professor
Surgery

Research Focus: Brachytherapy, Focal Therapy, Multi-Parametric MRI, Multi-parametric Ultrasound, Prostate Cancer

Sara Mostafavi
Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair, Tier 2
Statistics, Medical Genetics

Research Focus: Computational Biology, Computational Medicine, Data Integration, Genetics of Complex Traits, Genomics, Machine Learning, Machine Learning in Computational Biology, Psychiatric Genetics, Regulatory Networks

Tim Murphy
Professor
Cellular & Physiological Sciences, Psychiatry

Research Focus: Cerebral Blood Flow, Electrophysiology, Huntington Disease, Neurodegeneration, Neurovascular Coupling, Optogenetics, Primary Neuronal Culture, Synaptic Plasticity, Two Photon Imaging

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Robert Nabi
Professor
Cellular & Physiological Sciences

Research Focus: Breast Cancer, Fluorescent Microscopy, Metastasis, Mitochondrial Dynamics, Single Molecule Localization Microscope, Super-Resolution Microscopy, Tumor Progression

Chris Nguan
Associate Professor
Urologic Sciences

Research Focus: Allograft Fibrosis, Donor Organ Preservation, Elastography, Kidney Transplantation, Organ Perfusion, Organ Preservation Solution, Organ transplantation, Pharmacokinetics, Ultrasound Imaging

Savvas Nicolaou
Professor
Radiology

Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Computed Tomography, Emergency Radiology, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Trauma Radiology

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Alex Rauscher
Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Developmental Neuroimaging
Department of Pediatrics

Research Focus: Biomedical Imaging, Brain Injury, Concussion, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Multiple Sclerosis, Neuroscience, Quantitative MRI

Stefan Reinsberg
Associate Professor
Physics and Astronomy

Research Focus: Image Method Development, Medical Physics

Robert Rohling
Director, Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems, Professor
Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Focus: Biomedical Imaging, Elastography, Medical Robotics, Ultrasound Imaging

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Tim Salcudean
Canada Research Chair, Tier 1, Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Focus: Cancer Classification, Elastography, Image-Guided Interventions, Medical Image Analysis, Medical Robotics, Prostate Cancer, Teleoperation, Ultrasound Imaging

Paul Schaffer
Associate Laboratory Director
TRIUMF

Research Focus: Bio-Inorganic Chemistry, Cancer, Imaging Agents, Molecular Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, Positron Emission Tomography, Radiometals, Radiopharmaceuticals, Therapeutic Agents

Mark Schmidt
Assistant Professor, Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Alberta Machine Learning Institute
Computer Science

Research Focus: Causality, Machine Learning, Numerical Optimizaiton, Probabilistic Graphical Models

Sohrab Shah
Associate Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Research Focus: Clonal Dynamics, Computational Biology, DNA Repair, Genomic Instability, Genomic Signatures, Homologous Recombination, Next-Generation Sequencing, Ovarian Cancer, Tumour Evolution

Linda Shapiro
Professor
Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Focus: Computer Vision, Medical Image Analysis, pattern recognition

Vesna Sossi
Adjunct Professor, Professor
Physics and Astronomy, Medicine

Research Focus: Algorithms, Clinical and Preclinical Imaging, Instrumentation, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neurodegeneration, Neuroscience, Positron Emission Tomography

Ingrid Spadinger
Clinical Associate Professor
Surgery

Research Focus: Brachytherapy, Developmental Radiotherapeutics, Medical Physics, Radiation Oncology

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Aline Talhouk
Assistant Professor
Obstetrics & Gynecology

Research Focus: Bioinformatics, Cancer of the Reproductive System, Computer Science and Statistics, Diagnostic Models, Digital Health, Epidemiology, Machine Learning, Ovarian Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Prevention, Privacy

Roger Tam
Associate Professor
Radiology

Research Focus: Computer-Assisted Surgery, In vivo tissue imaging, Machine Learning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Medical Image Analysis

Shuo Tang
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Focus: Biomedical Optics, Biophotonics, Laser Spectroscopy, Melanoma Detection, Multiphoton Microscopy, Optical Coherence Tomography, Skin Cancer Detection

Teresa Tsang
Associate Head Research, Director of Echocardiography, Professor
Division of Cardiology, Medicine

Research Focus: Cardiology, Data Fusion, Echocardiography, Feature Extraction, Image Classification, Image Processing, Image Registration, Image Segmentation, Machine Learning, Quality Assurance, Ultrasound Imaging

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Danielle Walker

Danielle Walker
Program Manager, Biomedical Imaging and AI Research Cluster

Research Focus:

Cheryl Wellington
Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Research Focus: Alzheimer Disease, apolipoprotein E (apoE) metabolism, Concussion, Dementia, Neurodegeneration, Traumatic Brain Injury

David Wilson
Professor
Orthopaedics

Research Focus: Biomechanics, Biomedical Imaging, Hip, Image Processing, Joints, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Orthopaedics, Osteoarthritis

Alexander Wyatt
Assistant Professor
Urologic Sciences

Research Focus: Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics, Cell-Free DNA, Immunotherapy, Liquid Biopsy, Precision Oncology, Prostate Cancer

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Jane Z Wang
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Focus: Brain Data Analytics, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, Signal Processing, Statistical Signal Processing

Peter Zandstra
Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering, Medical Genetics

Research Focus: Bioengineering, Biological Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Imaging, Biotechnology, Computational Biology, Computational Modeling, Gene/Cell Therapy Systems, Genomics, Immunology, Personalized Medicine, Regenerative Medicine, Synthetic Biology

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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