Dr. Mohsen Akbari BSc (Sharif University of Technology), MSc (Sharif University of Technology), PhD (Simon Fraser University), PDF (Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired engineering)
Welcome to the Laboratory for Innovations in MicroEngineering (LiME)! Research at LiME lies at the interface of cellular biology, biomaterials, and microtechnologies. Three key research areas at Dr. Akbari's lab are:
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-Happy to see out review paper on stimuli-responsive hydrogels for post-surgical drug delivery in the journal of Gels (May 2020).
-Congrats to Ehsan and the rest of the team for their publication in International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IF=4.5) (May 2020). -Dr. Akbari will give an invited talk at LifeScience BC on March 11th. Plan to attend if interested (February 2020). -Congrats to Dr. Akbari for being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure (February 2020). -Congrats to Maryam for her the acceptance of her paper in the Journal of Micromachines (February 2020). -Great to see our paper on smart multifunctional fibers is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (IF=8.5)! Congrats to all authors (February 2020). -Congratulation to Maryam for successfully defending her Masters thesis. Well done Maryam. We wish you all the best (January 2020). -Congratulation to Zhina for the acceptance of three back to back papers. Well done Zhina (January 2020). -Congratulation to Lucas for successfully defending his Masters thesis (October 2019). -Dr. Akbari presented some of the recent advances in smart wound dressings at the Wounds Canada Fall Conference in Niagara Falls. (October 2019) -We would like to welcome Behdad and Amir, who recently joined LiME as Masters student and postdoctoral fellow, respectively. We look forward to working with you both. (September 2019) -Happy to see our collaboration with Dr. Ghavami's group of U Manitoba is accepted for publication in FEBS (IF=4.8). Congrats Shahla and Ehsan! -Congratulations to the Director of LiME, Dr. Akbari, for receiving the prestigious Idea to Commercialization award from Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. (September 2019) -Big congrats to Reihaneh, Bahram (two former members of LiME), David, and Erik for their paper being accepted for publication in Advanced Therapeutics! (September 2019). -Congrats to Tavia, Lucas, and Hossein for their paper being accepted for publication in the Journal of Microphysiological Systems (August 2019). -Happy to see our paper on a microfluidic-based pH sensor is accepted for publication in the Journal of Sensors and Actuators A. Congrats to the team! (July 2019) -Very happy to see our work is featured on NSERC's website (June 2019). -Another great paper by Amir and Ehsan on smart micro-carriers that can detect circulating tumor cells in blood samples is just accepted for publication in the Journal of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (IF=8.1) (June 2019). -Very happy to announce that our paper on targeted cancer cell detection, isolation and enumeration using Immuno-Nano/hybrid magnetic microgels is accepted for publication in RSC Biomaterials Science (IF=5.8). Congrats Amir for your hard work (June 2019)! -Excited to see our paper on Self‐Healing Hydrogels is published in Advanced Science (IF=12.6). Congrats to the team! (June 2019) -We are very excited to see our paper on "Electrically conductive nanomaterials for cardiac tissue engineering" is published in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (IF=13.6). Congrats team! (June 2019) -We welcome Eryn who our lab as a co-op student to work on a collaborative project with the Laboratory for Alternative Energy Conversion Systems at SFU (May 2019). -We are pleased to announce out collaboration with Eupraxia Pharmaceutical on developing advanced drug delivery systems for treatment of post-surgical infections (May 2019). -We are very pleased to announce that Bahram (our former lab member) received the very prestigious Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CGS D) Award. This award is highly competitive and only a few students across Canada receive it. Congratulation to Bahram and wish you all the best and success in your future endeavors (March 2019). -Congratulations to Bahram, Erik, Shahla, and Jade for their accepted paper on 3D printed drug-eluting meshes for treatment of Glioblastoma (March 2019). -Dr. Akbari will give an invited talk on the application of micro-and nanotechnologies in disease modelng and drug delivery at the Faculty of Applied Science of the Simon Fraser University (March 2019). -Huge congrats to Brent and Erik for winning the People's Choice Award at the Research Reels competition at UVic (March 2019). -Huge congrats to Brent and Erik for being among the finalists of the video showcase for the UVic research reels contest. Great job guys! (March 2019) -Dr. Akbari will give an invited talk at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterial Society in Quebec City (February 2019). -We welcome Meitham for jouning LiME. We look forward to working with you (January 2019). -Dr. Akbari's start-up company, 4M Biotech, has recently won a contract with the Canadian Department of National Defense, to further develop the smart bandage technology. Congrats to the team! (January 2019) -We wish everyone a happy New Year! (December 2018) -Congratulations to Sadaf and Hossein for their accepted paper in the Journal of Polymers (IF=3). This paper reports on the development of smart injectable materials for localized drug delivery (November 2018). -We welcome Zhina for joining LiME. Looking forward to working with you Zhina (November 2018). -Congratulations to Brent for his accepted paper in the Journal of Advance Science (IF=12.5). This work was done in collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark (November 2018). -Congratulations to Amir, Ehsan, and Brent for winning the Most Innovative Research with Industry Partnership Potential Award at the UVic Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurship Partnership event for the self-filling microwell array technology (November 2018). -Congratulations to Amir, Ehsan, and Brent for their paper that is accepted for publication in the Journal of Lab-on-Chip (IF=6). The paper reports on the fabrication of self-filling microwell arrays for tumour spheroid formation and drug screening (October 2018). -Congrats to great hackers from my lab: Brent, Maryam, and David for winning second place in the first ever health hackaton in Victoria (October 2018). -Congratulations to Sadegh for joining Ballard Power Systems as a Research Intern. We wish him all the best and success (September 2018)! -Congrats to Ehsan for his collaborative paper being accepted in the Journal of Cell Death Discovery, a Nature Publishing Group Journal (September 2018). -We would like to welcome Tavia Walsh for joining LiME. Great to have you here with us Tavia (September 2018). -Congrats to Sadegh for his accepted paper in the Journal of Power Sources (IF=7) (September 2018). -Congratulations to Reihaneh, our alumni, for joining Evonik Transferra Nanosciences as a Research Associate. We wish her success in her future endeavours! (September 2018). -We are happy that our collaborative work on myocardial cell signalling during the transition to heart failure with University of Manitoba and Shiraz University is accepted for publication in the Journal of Comprehensive Physiology (IF=5.7) (September 2018). -Bahram is joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering as a PhD student. We wish him all the best in his future endeavours (August 2018). -Happy to hear that our paper on a novel nanofibrous system for delivery of growth factors is accepted for publication in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A (IF=3.3) (August 2018). -We are excited about our another collaboration with Rheolution, a pioneer Canadian company that develops non-destructive mechanical characterization systems. This project was supported by both Rheolution and NSERC through Collaborative Research and Development program (June 2018). -We are pleased to announce our collaborative project with RepliCel has been successfully funded by NSERC through Collaborative Research and Development program. We look forward to work with one of the pioneers in cell-based therapy (June 2018). -We would like to congratulate Bahram for winning the Breakthrough Award of the Year from CAMTEC! Well deserved! (June 2018) -Pleased to see our paper on skin tissue substitutes and biomaterial risk assessment and testing is accepted for publication in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (IF= 3.4). Congrats Brent and other authors! (June 2018) -Glad to see our collaborative paper with the Technical University of Denmark on Blending electronics with the human body is accepted for publication in the Journal of Advanced Science (IF=12.4). Congrats to Bahram and other authors! (June 2018) -Welcome to Bhubesh and Lama for joining LiME as part of the Mitacs Globallink program (May 2018). -We would like to welcome Dr. Hossein Dabiri, who joined LiME as a visiting scholar. We look forward to a fruitful collaboration Hossein! (May 2018) -We would like to welcome David Hamdi to LiME. We look forward to working with you David (April 2018). -We would like to congratulate Reihaneh for successfully defending her MASc thesis. Well done! (April 2018) - Huge congrats to Bahram and Erik to be among the finalists of the Medical Device Development Centre Awards for Excellence in Biomedical Engineering Student Design & Innovation. Way to go! (April 2018) -We would like to congratulate Amir, Brent, Bahram, Ehsan, and Erik for winning the 2018 Canadian Biomaterial Society Travel Award. Well deserved! (April 2018) -We would like to congratulate our lab alumni, Jose Velasco, for winning the prestigious Exxon Mobile Research Fellowship 2018. Well done Jose! (March 2018) -We are pleased to see our paper entitled Translational models of tumor angiogenesis: a nexus of in silico and in vitro models is accepted for publication in the Journal of Biotechnology Advances (IF=9.6). Thanks to those who contributed to this work (February 2018). -We welcome Rand Bawab and Evan Stefanek, who joined LiME as co-op students for the spring term (January 2018). -We wish everyone a merry Christmas and a successful year in 2018! -Glad to see our smart bandage technology is among the top 10 stories of the University of Victoria (December 2017). -We have co-op positions available. For more information, please visit here (November 2017). -We have PhD positions available. For more information, please visit here (November 2017). -We would like to congratulate Bahram and Erik for receiving the most Innovative Research with Industry-partnership Potential Award during the UVic Biomedical Technology Industry-Partnership Day (November 2017). -Pleased to see our paper on the use of composite living fibres for repairing damaged tendons is accepted in the Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (IF=4) (October 2017). -Pleased to see our "smart bandage" technology is highlighted on the Advanced Science News website (October 2017). -We would like welcome Ali Sadahani, who joined LiME as a volunteer. We wish him all the best! (October 2017). -Our collaborative work with the University of Manitoba and University of Toronto on glioblastoma and chemoresistance to alkylating agents is accepted for publication in the prestigious journal of Pharmacology & Therapeutics (IF=11.1) (October 2017). -Pleased to see our paper on 'Smart Bandages' is highlighted on the back cover of Advanced Healthcare Materials (October 2017). -Pleased to see our collaborative paper with UVic Genome BC Protein Center has been featured as the free article of the month and also on the cover of the prestigious journal of Trends in Biotechnology (September 2017). -Dr. Akbari gave an invited talk on the current research at LiME at the Canadian Neurosurgical Innovation Meeting in Toronto (September 2017). - Pleased to see our paper on microfluidic isolation of extracellular vesicles is standing among top ten download papers in "Biosens Bioelectron" (IF = 7.9) since being published in January 2017. Thanks to those who contributed to this work (September 2017)! -Congrats to Bahram who defended his M.Sc. successfully today. We wish him best of luck with his future endovears (August 2017). -Glad to publish our first paper in the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering on the synthesis and characterization of nano-niosomal drug delivery systems (August 2017). -We are glad that our study on the biocompatibility assessment of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in mice feto-placental unit is accepted for publication in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A (IF=3.3) (August 2017). -Bahram and Erik's paper on multifunctional wound dressings is just accepted for publication in the Journal of Advanced Healthcare Materials (IF=5.1) (August 2017). -We would like to welcome Nahiane Pipaon, who joined our group as a visiting student (July 2017). -We are pleased that our paper on the application of microfluidic systems for studying anticancer drug screening is accepted for publication in the Journal of Drug Discovery Today (IF=6.3) (July 2017). -We would like to welcome Dr. Junghyuk Ko, who joined our group as a postdoctoral fellow (June 2017). -We are pleased that our paper about using microfluidics for mass spectrometry is accepted for publication in Trends in Biotechnology (IF=13) (June 2017). -We are proud to announce that Daniel Pedde receives the IEEE Victoria Section Gold Medal in Biomedical Engineering for 2016-2017. Congrats Daniel! -LiME member, Bahram, presented our recent projects at the 33rd Canadian Biomaterial Society conference in Winnipeg. -LiME members, Bahram, Sadegh, and Mohsen presented some of our recent findings at the 26th Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics (CANCAM 2017) from May 29th-June 1st. -Dr. Akbari receives funding from the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) to develop smart wound dressings (May 2017). -We would like to welcome Cidnee Luu, came back to LiME for another summer (May 2017). -We would like to welcome Daniel Weinzierl, who joined LiME for the summer (May 2017). -Dr. Akbari will give an invited talk at the Printing the Future of Therapeutics in 3D roundtable on May 5th, 2017. -Dr. Akbari will give an invited talk at NANOLYTICA 2017 which will be held at Simon Fraser University on May 4th, 2017. - We would like to welcome Dr. Ehsan Samiei, who joined LiME as a postdoctoral fellow as of May 2017. -Check out Sadegh's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentation as a finalist here (March 2017). -We are proud to announce that Daniel Pedde receives the prestigious Canada Graduate Scholarship for his Master's from NSERC. We congratulate Daniel for this great achievement (March 2017). -We now have an open Postdoctoral Fellow position and PhD positions available in LiME. Please see here for details (March 2017). - We are pleased to announce that Lucas got the NSERC-USRA award this year. Lucas has been a part of LiME for almost a year and has received this award twice since joining LiME. Congrats Lucas (March 2017). -We are glad to present some of our research projects at the BC Tech Summit this year in Vancouver (March 2017). -Glad to see our paper on the development of a temporary skin graft for management of chronic wounds is accepted for publication in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine (IF=2.27). More details are available here. -We are glad that our study on the mitochondrial damage of carbon nanotubes in skin cells is accepted for publication in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A (IF=3.3). More details are available here. -Congrats to Sadegh for being selected as a finalist in the 3-min thesis competition at UVic (February 2017). -Dr. Akbari presented some of the research activities in LiME to the public as part of Cafe Scientifique presentation series. - Congrats to Lucas and Erik for winning the prestigious Wighton Engineering Product Development award. This is a great achievement! -We welcome Sukhpreet and Brent to LiME. -Congrats to Daniel and Bahram for their accepted paper on the biofabrication of tissues in Advanced Materials (IF=20). This work was a collaboration between LiME, the Willerth lab at UVic, Arizona State University, and Technical University of Denmark. More details are provided here. -Glad to see our paper on the use of microfluidic systems for detection of extracellular vesicles was accepted in the Journal of Biosensors and Bioelectronics (IF=7.5). This work was a collaboration between LiME, Harvard Medical School, University o Calgary, and University of Manitoba. Thanks to the Team! More details are provided here. -Congrats Lucas for defending his honors thesis. Well done! - Glad to see our paper was accepted in the prestigious Journal of Science Translational Medicine (IF=15.8). Thanks to the team! More details are provided here. s-We welcome our new members Reihaneh Hosseinzadeh, Sadaf Samimi Gharaie, Sadegh Hasanpour, Ben Ruissen, and Gillian Nixon to LiME. |
