UBC Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate Farzad Khademolhosseini Receives The Vanier CGS Graduate Scholarship
UBC Mechanical Engineering PhD candidate Farzad Khademolhosseini has received the Vanier CGS graduate scholarship – one of the most pretigious graduate scholarships in Canada. According to the Vanier CGS website, the award is given to doctoral students who demonstrate both leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the natural […]
UBC researchers invent new drug delivery device to treat diabetes-related vision loss
Vancouver, Canada—June 29, 2011—A team of engineers and scientists at the University of British Columbia has developed a device that can be implanted behind the eye for controlled and on-demand release of drugs to treat retinal damage caused by diabetes. PhD mechanical engineering graduate Fatemeh Nazly Pirmoradi Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of vision […]