Award: Innovation Fund Recipient
Who: Bernal Manzanilla, PhD
About the award: Automated fluid presence detection in the lungs using ultrasound imaging.
Date awarded: May, 2020
Amount: $10,000
Award: Innovation Fund Recipient
Who: Ramin Fathian, PhD
About the award: Development of novel wearable technologies for gesture monitoring and preventing individuals from high-risk habitual behaviours in COVID-19 pandemic.
Date awarded: May, 2020
Amount: $10,000
Award: Patent for the SOCC (Smart Ongoing Circulatory Compressions)
Who: Dr. Vivian Mushahwar, Director, SMART Network
About the award: The SOCC is a wearable garment used to prevent deep vein thrombosis.
Date awarded: September, 2020
SMART Network AWARDS & Achievements
Award: Innovation Fund Recipient
Who: Ramin Fathian, PhD
About the award: In-field assessment of the risk of repetitive strain injury of the shoulder in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury.
Date awarded: September, 2020
Amount: $20,000
Award: Innovation Fund Recipient
Who: Matheus Mussi, MSc.
About the award: User-centred design of a hybrid brain-computer interface (BCI) for children with disabilities.
Date awarded: September, 2020
Amount: $20,000
Award: Innovation Fund Recipient
Who: Aida Valevicius, PDF
About the award: Using lessons learned during COVID-19 to inform quality telerehabilitation services.
Date awarded: May 2020
Amount: $20,000