Lassonde School of Engineering Professor聽聽has received an ENGAGE NSERC grant that will fund a research project in partnership with聽聽to develop a High-Density Parallel Drug Tests platform using a standard microelectronic technology, also called Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS).
Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh
Current drug test protocols rely on laborious, time consuming and costly conventional cell culture analysis. The proposed technology aims to test drugs in thousands of micro-scale micro-fluidic cell culture devices above CMOS sensors. This process promises to be faster and less costly.
Ghafar-Zadeh鈥檚 project will enable technologies that have so far been only used in聽communications, computer and other consumer electronic applications to function in the medical field. This has great implications for drug discovery and cancer screening processes. The long-term goal is this partnership between Ghafar-Zadeh and Medella Health is聽to develop a new technology for measuring cellular activities, which can then be used for many applications, including cell-based drug tests for cancer.
Ghafar-Zadeh received his PhD in electrical engineering from 脡cole Polytechnique de Montr茅al and completed a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of California, Berkeley in Bioengineering.
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