91ÉçÇø

• Duff Medical Building
• 3775 University Street, Room 316
• Montreal QC H3A 2B4
• Canada
• Website: www.mcgill.ca/bbme

The Biological and Biomedical Engineering (BBME) graduate program is an interfaculty program involving the Department of Bioengineering in the Faculty of Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Faculty of Medicine. The BBME interfaculty program builds on the excellence and high standard of its predecessor graduate program in Biomedical Engineering. This broader interfaculty restructuring supports the growing trend in research universities toward formalized interdisciplinary studies and multifaculty collaboration.

BBME students come from a wide range of backgrounds including engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, and dentistry, among others. The multicultural diversity of our student body is a strength of the program, as networking and collaborative opportunities are vast. Students in BBME have supervisors associated with the program whose home departments will be spread primarily across the Faculties of Engineering and Medicine.

As researchers in this field unravel the molecular and physiological mechanisms of biology, develop increasingly advanced technologies to transform healthcare, or attempt to reverse-engineer naturally occurring biological solutions, devices, and procedures, alumni of the BBME program are poised to play a critical role in shaping our global future.

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Research Domains

Our faculty members are particularly active in research related to the development of quantitative analysis tools and instruments for biological and biomedical research. The ultimate goal is the pursuit of answers to biological and medical questions. Ongoing biological and biomedical engineering research at 91ÉçÇø includes:

• signal analysis, including brain (EEG), muscles (EMG), eyes (EOG), respiration, and mass spectrometry;
• systems analysis, including neuromuscular control, and oculomotor and vestibular control;
• experimental and computational biomechanics, including orthopedic and auditory mechanics;
• biomaterials, including artificial cells;
• medical imaging and image processing;
• micro and nanotechnology and biosensors;
• nanoparticles and cell imaging;
• bioinformatics and computational biology;
• computers in medical education, including interactive 3D models and haptics;
• biological materials and mechanics;
• biomolecular and cellular engineering, and regenerative medicine;
• biomedical, diagnostics, and high throughput screening engineering;
• mechanics of disease;
• tissue engineering, especially concerning 3D and nano-related biological microfluidics devices, such as fungi and cellular traffic;
• biological dynamic devices, from whole-organisms (e.g., bacteria) to nanodevices;
• information processing and storage in biological systems;
• systems and synthetic biology;
• cell mechanisms and the cytoskeleton;
• soft matter physics.