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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

IEEE World Haptics Conference
July 2025
Check us out at the IEEE World Haptics Conference in Suwon, South Korea where Sara Badr presented her work!
Awards & Scholarships
July 2024
A huge congratulations to Hanna Hamoud-Michel for receiving the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship!




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Awards & Scholarships
June 2024
A huge congratulations to Sara Badr and Elie Daoust for their awards from CRCHUM!
Francesco's Defense
May 2025
Congratulations to Francesco for making the BBF Lab proud with his successful PhD defense! We wish you the best of luck in your future career.



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CSME International Congress
May 2025
Check us out at the CSME International Congress in Montreal, Québec where Melanie, Julie, Elie, Baptiste, Lisa and Hanna presented their work!
International B&B Conference
May 2025
Check us out at the 2nd International Biomaterials and Biofabrication Conference in Hartford, USA. Congratulations to Sara for her amazing presentation!





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Canadian Biomaterial Society Congress
May 2025
Check us out at the Canadian Biomaterials Society Conference in Kingston, Ontario. Our presenters Baptiste, Pakshid, Elie, Lisa and Élisabeth were fantastic. A huge congratulations to Baptiste for winning Best Oral Presentation!
ACFAS Congress
May 2025
Check us out at the 92nd edition of the ACFAS Congress in Montreal, Québec where Léo Audebert, Victoria Guittard and Lisa Dupeyroux presented their work!




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Sydney's Defense
April 2025
Congratulations to Sydney for making the BBF Lab proud with her successful Master's defense! We wish you the best of luck in Medical School.
itechsanté Day
March 2025
Way to go Elie, Baptiste, Melanie and Hanna for participating in the "3-minute thesis" competition at ÉTS in Montreal, Québec! Congratulations to Baptiste for winning an award for best presentation!




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Concours de Vulgarisation
Feb. 2025
Congratulations to Melanie Rodger and Elie Daoust for their great presentations and posters at the "Concours de Vulgarisation" at ÉTS in Montreal, Canada.
Aude's Defense
Dec. 2024
Congratulations to Aude for making the BBF Lab proud with her successful Master's defense! We wish you the best of luck with your future career.






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International Conference on Biofabrication
Nov. 2024
Check us out at the International Conference on Biofabrication 2024 in Fukuoka, Japan where Melanie Rodger, Sara Badr and Amin Zohourfazeli presented theirwork!
Annual Thécell Day
Nov. 2024
Check us out at the Thécell conference in Québec City, Canada, during which Baptiste, Pakshid, Francesco and Élizabeth presented their work. Congratulations to Élisabeth who won an award for the best poster presentation!




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MICROTAS 2024 International Conference
Oct. 2024
Congratulations to Sydney, Elie, Baptiste and Hanna for their poster presentations at the MicroTAS conference in Montreal, Canada!
25th Annual Student, Intern and Resident Congres of CHUM
Oct. 2024
Way to go Elie, Baptiste and Hanna for their poster presentations at this congress in Montreal, Canada! Congratulations to Baptiste and Hanna for their Award of Excellence for this presentation!




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Amin's Defense
Aug. 2024
Congratulations to Amin for making the BBF Lab proud with his successful Master's defense! We wish you the best of luck with your future career.
TERMIS World Congress 2024
Jun. 2024
Check us out at the 7th Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) World Congress in Seattle, USA where Francesco Touani presented his work!


Awards & Scholarships
Jun. 2024
Congratulations to Hanna Hamoud-Michel, Pakshid Hosseinzadeh, Melanie Rodger, Francesco Touani Kameni, and Élisabeth Poirier for their awards from CÉCRCHUM and to Aude Gigodot for for her scholarship from ÉTS.
InitiaSciences
Jun. 2024
Congratulations to three high school and Cégep students who completed a research project through the InitiaSciences Program on 3D-Printed Microfluidic Chips for Microbead Generation.





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World Biomaterials Congress 2024
May 2024
Check us out at the World Biomaterials Congress Daegu, South Korea where Baptiste Marin and Sydney Wheatley presented their work!
Awards & Scholarships
April 2024
Congratulations to Sara Badr for her NSERC - Canada Graduate Research Scholarship (Doctoral Program)! We are very proud of you!


Concours de Vulgarisation

Mar. 2024
Congratulations to Amin Zohourfazeli for winning third place at the "Concours de Vulgarisation" at ÉTS and for his presentation at CSME 2024 titled "Development of an on-demand foaming printhead for fabricating heterogeneous porous constructs."
CSME Gold Medal Award
Nov. 2023
A huge congratulations to our very own, Sara Badr, for being this year's CSME Gold Medal Award recipient for her master's work titled ''Development of a Mist-Based Hydrogel Crosslinking Technique for Coaxial Bioprinting of Hollow Fibers.'

15th Annual Thécell Day
Nov. 2023
Check us out at the Thécell conference in Sherbrooke, QC. Our presenters Baptiste (oral), Francesco (poster), Aude (oral) were fantastic as they shared their work about cellular therapies!
École de Technologie Supérieure Convocation
Nov. 2023
The end of an era... We are so proud of Werner, Elias, and Sara for their graduation from the M.A.Sc degree at École de technologie supérieure. Onto the next adventure for these three, all the best!


Board of Directors Award of Excellence
Oct. 2023
Hip, hip, hooray!
Elias has been awarded the Board of Directors Award of Excellence for Master's Students with Thesis for all of his incredible work. This deserving recognition is for his thesis titled 'The Use of Mechanical Foaming for Development of Bioinks and Bioprinting Techniques.'
24th Annual Student, Intern and Resident Congres of CHUM
Oct. 2023
Way to go Claire for her poster presentation titled 'Fabrication of a Device for the In Situ Culture of Microorganisms in the Gastrointestinal Tract,' and for her Award of Excellence for this presentation!


MICROTAS 2023 International Conference
Oct. 2023
Congratulations to Sydney for her poster presentation in Poland at the MicroTAS conference. She was awarded the CHEMINAS Young Researcher Poster Award for her presentation titled 'Growing the Unknown: Investigation into a New Approach for In Situ Microbial Growth.'
International Conference on Biofabrication
Sept. 2023
Congratulations to Sara for her oral presentation in Saskatoon Canada at the Biofabrication. Her talk was titled 'Development of a Mist-Based Hydrogel Crosslinking Technique for Coaxial Bioprinting of Hollow Fibers.'



Elias' Defense
Aug. 2023
Congratulations to Elias for making the BBF Lab proud in his successful Master's defense! We wish you the best of luck with your new position at Boston Scientific.
Canadian Biomaterial Society Congress
Jun. 2023
Check us out at the Canadian Biomaterials Society Conference in Halifax, NS. Our presenters Francesco (oral and poster), Baptiste (oral), Sydney (oral), Elias (oral) were fantastic. A huge congratulations to Francesco for placing second in the poster competition!




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SCIENCEPOP
Apr. 2023
Baptiste placed third for a popularized version of his research titled Biomaterials for Treating Cancer in a SciencePOP competition at the CRCHUM.

Sara's Defense
Apr. 2023
Congratulations to Sara for her defense which was a huge success! We are so lucky to have her around in the lab for a few more years as she starts her PhD this fall :)






CREATE Workshop
Jan. 2023
Aude and Pakshid attended the CREATE workshop in Ottawa presented by Dr. Stephanie Willerth.
Pan-Canadian Innovation Think Tank
Certification Program
Sept. 2022
Congratulations to Elias and his team for placing first in the Pan-Canadian Innovation Think Tank Certification Program at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM)

International Conference on Biofabrication
Sept. 2022
Congratulations to Elias for his oral presentation on foam-based bioprinting at the International Conference on Biofabrication.

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