Professor & Scientist: tissue engineering & regenerative medicine, drug delivery, biomaterials

Joined June 2020
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China surpassed USA patent numbers for the first time!
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Excited to be part of the 2022 inductees to the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. Proud to be @westernuEng @WesternU conducting research that led to this recognition.
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I am honoured to be recognized with the Engineering Medal (Research & Development) - considered as crème de la crème for Engineering Research in Ontario, Canada. A huge thank you to mentors, colleagues, and trainees for their support over the years! lnkd.in/gM-GUg65
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An absolute honor to be elected to the 2022 RSC - College of New Scholars @RSCTheAcademies Incredibly thankful to my mentors, nominators, colleagues (Chemistry, CBE and beyond..), and my super-talented team of budding scientists!!
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Our recent article in Materials Advances has been highlighted as a Popular Advance! Here is the article and the full collection: rsc.li/materials-advances.

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Attending the CAE @TheCdnAcadofEng annual meeting in Halifax.
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Very pleased to be among the class of 2022 elected fellows of the CAE. Fifty-four new Fellows elected into the Canadian Academy of Engineering cae-acg.ca/fifty-four-new-fe…

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A new article from Nature BME
Injectable and conductive cardiac patches repair infarcted myocardium in rats and minipigs rdcu.be/cyIzI
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If you are a runner and track your runs and meals, I would love to hear any non-obvious insights you may draw from the data in this graph I just made. I have been wearing a glucose sensor for the past 9 days.
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Prof Mequanint retweeted
Snake-Venom 'Super Glue' Can Stop Wounds Bleeding in Seconds With a Flash of Light sciencealert.com/snake-venom…
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"Snakes...why'd it have to be snakes?" Because Indy, according to new research at #WesternU, the venom can be used for making ‘super glue’ that stops bleeding in seconds using visible light. news.westernu.ca/2021/07/sna…

ALT Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones moves quickly in a face off with an attacking snake.

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No, it's not an Indiana Jones plot. It's real science! Turns out, an enzyme in the venom of a poisonous South American snake, could be the answer to stopping life-threatening bleeding in seconds. More w/ Kibret Mequanint @WesternU at 7:45. #LdnOnt READ: news.westernu.ca/2021/07/sna…
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