Professors
The TransMedTech community is comprised of approximately 100 professors and researchers affiliated with the five founding institutions of the Institute (Polytechnique Montréal, Université de Montréal, CHU Sainte-Justine, CR CHUM, Jewish General Hospital), who carry out medical technology research and development projects in collaboration with numerous partners.
Since its creation, the Institute has contributed to the hiring of 15 new faculty members from its founding institutions to support the dynamics and high level of innovation of the medical technology ecosystem.
Faculty hired with the support of TransMedTech
Eva Alonso-Ortiz
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Polytechnique Montréal
Areas of expertise: Biomedical engineering, biomedical technology, digital signal processing, mathematical biology and physiology, mathematical modelling, image and video processing
Marco Bonizzato
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Polytechnique Montréal
Areas of expertise: Biomedical engineering, biomedical technology, artificial intelligence, life sciences research related to human health and disease, medical sciences, intelligent systems applications, control systems, mathematical biology and physiology, biophysics, optimization, digital signal processing
Chukwuemeka George Anene Nzelu
Assistant Research Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal and Researcher
Research Center of the Montreal Heart Institute
Areas of expertise: 3D chromatin organization in the heart and its importance for development and disease; DNA damage and repair in heart failure; Non-coding RNA in cardiac development and disease; 3D tissue engineered cardiac constructs in microfluidic chip; Targeting the epigenome for therapeutics in heart failure; Epigenetic memory in heart failure; Epigenetics in Congenital heart disease
Jean-François Carrier
Associate Professor, TransMedTech Chair in Medical Imaging
Université de Montréal
Areas of expertise: radiation detectors, dosimetry, physical radiation effects, radiation damage, radiation therapy equipment, medical imaging, computational techniques, simulation, Monte Carlo simulations, biological and medical physics
Benjamin De Leener
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering & TransMedTech Chair in pediatric neuro-imaging
Polytechnique Montréal
Areas of expertise: Biomedical technology, pattern analysis and machine intelligence, intelligent systems applications, computer vision, image and video processing, digital signal processing, life sciences research related to human health and disease, medical sciences, instrumentation and measurements, artificial intelligence
Danielle Levac
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, School of Rehabilitation
Université de Montréal
Areas of expertise: Motor learning: eye tracking, kinematics, electroencephalography, task performance measures. Affective reactions to immersion in a virtual environment: questionnaires, physiological arousal, coding of behavioral data and verbalizations from videos. Participatory action research and knowledge transfer approach. Clinical trials. Scoping reviews.
Géraldine Merle
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & TransMedTech Chair in diagnostic and therapeutic technologies
Polytechnique Montréal
Areas of expertise: Biochemistry, Electrochemistry, biomedical materials, biomaterials
Abolfazl Mohebbi
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering & TransMedTech Chair in assistive and rehabilitative technologies
Polytechnique Montréal
Areas of expertise: Engineering design, biomedical engineering, control systems, robotics, virtual reality and related simulations, optimization, computer vision, intelligent systems applications
Matthew G Perich
Assistant Professor, Department of neurosciences
Université de Montréal
Areas of expertise: artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, experimental neurophysiology, neural engineering, motor behavior, neuroprosthetic devices
Stephan Reuter
Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Physics & TransMedTech Chair in Plasma Medicine
Polytechnique Montréal
Areas of expertise: Physics and spectroscopy of non-thermal plasmas, plasma medicine, ultra-fast laser spectroscopy, plasma-liquid interaction, plasma for environment, synthesis and characterization of materials and plasma biophysics
April Rose
Investigator, Lady Davis Institute; Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, McGill University; Medical Oncologist, Segal Cancer Centre
Jewish General Hospital
Areas of expertise: Bone/fat, cancer, drug discovery/therapeutics, epidemiology, basic research, immunology
Houman Savoji
Assistant Professor, TransMedTech Research Chair in 3D Bioprinting and Regenerative Medicine
Université de Montréal
Areas of expertise: Bioengineering, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, biomaterials, micro- and nano-fabrication, 3D bioprinting, organs on chips
Lama Séoud
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering
Polytechnique Montréal
Areas of expertise: Image and video processing, pattern analysis and machine intelligence, computer vision, biomedical technology
Raphaël Trouillon
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & TransMedTech Chair in Bioanalytical Systems
Polytechnique Montréal
Areas of expertise: Electrochemistry, biochips, biosensors, organs-on-a-chip, neurochemistry
Lucien Weiss
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Physics
Polytechnique Montréal
Areas of expertise: Bioanalytical chemistry, spectroscopy, biomedical engineering, biophysics, experimental methods and instrumentation, biophysical chemistry, physical chemistry
