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Professor Razieh Salahandish Awarded $645K to Pioneer AI-Driven Bone Healing and Cancer Recovery Research
Professor Razieh Salahandish has secured over $645K to advance bone healing and cancer recovery. Her work uses AI, biotech, and smart materials to speed bone regeneration and create wearable biosensors for cancer survivors.
Professor Salahandish is recruiting graduate students in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, and Engineering.
Help shape the future of medicine and technology: https://bit.ly/4jL08iB
Learn more about her impactful work: https://bit.ly/4obUA3w
Date: October 2025
Driving Innovation in Bone Health: $300K OCI/C2C Grant Awarded to Professor Salahandish’s Team and AlloWide Health Inc.
🌟 Proud to Announce! 🌟
Our team has been awarded an Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI)/Collaborate 2 Commercialize (C2C) grant in collaboration with AlloWide Health Inc. for our project titled:
“Rehydration Buffer for Bone Allografts.”
This $300,000 grant will support developing innovative solutions for improving bone allograft preservation and application.
Thank you to our partners and team at LAB-HA and Lassonde School of Engineering for their support!
Date: October 2025
Professor Salahandish’s Team and Scanbo Awarded $345K Mitacs Internship to Advance Point-of-Care Medical Devices
🌟 Exciting News! 🌟
Our collaboration with Scanbo has been approved under the Mitacs Business Strategy Internship with $345K over 2 years. The project advances point-of-care medical devices that improve accessibility and patient outcomes.
Date: September 2025
LAB-HA PhD Students Awarded Mitacs Lab2Market Funding to Advance Wearable Biosensing Technologies
Two PhD students from LAB-HA have received $10,000 Mitacs Lab2Market funding to develop wearable biosensing technologies for early detection of neurological and cancer conditions. Congratulations to Elnaz Haghani and Nadia Esmaeildoost for their innovation!
Date: August 2025
Turning Ideas into Impact: Entrepreneurship in Action at Lassonde
At Lassonde, entrepreneurship starts in the classroom. Professor Razieh Salahandish teaches students how to turn biomedical innovations into business ideas. Backed by $2.5M+ in research funding, she inspires the next generation of health-tech innovators.
Read more: https://bit.ly/40Hu5ti
Date: July 2025