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Dr. Baillet and collaborator wins McGill's first Biomedical Engineering Collaborative Research Project competition

Published: 9 July 2015

Professors Sylvain Baillet (BIC Principal investigator) and Matt Kinsella (Dept of Bioengineering) have won the first Biomedical Engineering Collaborative Research Project competition held by McGill’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, for their project titled:

Millisecond in vivo imaging of nanoparticle circulation and uptake in brain cancer therapy.

Sylvain Baillet

Sylvain is presently the acting Director of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) at the MNI. The BIC is a major research and core facility for brain imaging that features 7 imaging platforms (high-field MRI, high-resolution PET, research Cyclotron and Radiochemistry, MEG), with prominent expertise in biomedical image analysis. Overall, the McConnell BIC is home to 150 faculty, students and support staff and offer brain imaging services to about 120 external principal investigators.