• Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering (2022-) Link
• Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (2020-) Link
• Canada Research Chair Tier II in BioMEMS- Renewal (2023 -  )
• Canada Research Chair Tier II in BioMEMS (2018 - 2022)
• Killam member (2022) Link
• Peak Scholars, University of Calgary (2019) Link
• 2020 Parex Innovation Fellowship, University of Calgary (2020) (Link)
• Co-Lead of BME Novel Medical Devices, the University of Calgary (2019- )
• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (2015-2020) Link
• Joint affiliation with the Biomedical Engineering Program (2015 - Now) Link
• Joint affiliation with the Center of BioEngineering for Research and Education (2015 - Now )
• Co-Founder of CriticareDx, SenseSi, and Wireless Fluidics

Linkedin Amir Sanati Nezhad 

Education:

• Postdoc: Harvard University (2014-2015)
• Postdoc: McGill University (2013-2014)
• Ph.D.: Concordia University (2010-2013)

A member of:

• CIHR College of Reviewers (CIHR)
• Biomedical Engineering Program (BME)  
• Hotchkiss Brain Institute (Link)
• Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute (Link)
• Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta (Link)
• Integrated Concussion Research Program (ICRP)

Research focus:

• Developing point-of-care devices for rapid diagnosis of cancer, brain injuries, spinal cord injury, neurodegenerative diseases, and viral/bacteria infectious diseases as well as food and environmental pathogens and contaminants.
• Developing wearable biosensors and digital health monitoring platforms for precision medicine and personalized therapy. 
• Engineering of innovative microfluidic devices for biomedical, biological, environmental and energy applications. 
• The development of integrated bioinspired microdevices using microfluidics and tissue engineering approaches for disease modeling, biological systems modeling, and drug discovery.

Selected Awards:

• Killam's Emerging Research Leader Award  (2022) Link
• Schulich School of Engineering Achievement Award, University of Calgary (2020)
• 2020 Parex Innovation Fellowship, University of Calgary (2020) (Link)
• Peak Scholars Award, University of Calgary (2019) (Link)
• Early Research Excellence Award, University of Calgary (2018) (Link)
• Innovation, Development, and Entrepreneurship Award, University of Calgary (2018)
• Canada Research Chair Tier II (2018) (Link)
• Early Career Research Award, University of Calgary (2017)
• Research Achievement Award, University of Calgary (2016)
• CMC Microsystem's Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence (2015) Link1 , Link 2
• Outstanding Teaching Performance, University of Calgary (2015)
• Governor's General Gold Medal of Canada (2013) Link

Dr. Bahareh Babamiri received her B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry-Electrochemistry from Kurdistan University in Iran. Bahareh specializes in electrochemiluminescence, electrochemical and fluorescence biosensors for trace detection of proteins, tumor biomarkers, bacteria, DNA, and mRNA toward their application in clinical diagnostics. Her Ph.D. thesis project was the design and development of nano-biosensors for the simultaneous determination of highly important tumor biomarkers, Aptamer-based biosensors, DNA and RNA hybridization biosensors, and molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) sensors based on spectro-electrochemical techniques. 

Currently, Bahareh is a Mitacs postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and her current research focuses on developing point-of-care dd-PCR kits and biosensors for rapid diagnosis of bacteria and viral infections.

Dr. Mohammadreza Farrokhnia is a Mitacs Postdoctoral Associate in the department of Biomedical
Engineering at the University of Calgary and the Fluidome Company. He received his Ph.D. Degree in the
field of Biomedical Engineering from the College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran. His Ph.D.
thesis was a collaboration between the Research Center of New Technologies in Life Science Engineering
(UTLSE) at the University of Tehran, Iran, and the Nanomaterials and Polymer Nanocomposites
Laboratory (NPNL) at the University of British Columbia, Canada, focusing on the design, fabrication,
and development of multiplexed nano-biosensor system for the early detection of diabetes. He received
his M.Sc. Degree in Chemical Engineering/Separation Processes Design from the Sharif University of
Technology, Iran focused on the synthesis and investigation of various polymeric nanocomposite
membranes and B.Sc. Degree in Chemical Engineering from Shiraz University, Iran.

Currently, Mohammadreza is working on developing portable, automated, and stable
Concussion detection devices based on microfluidic and electrochemical biosensing technologies.

Dr. Kirankumar Kuruvinashetti received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Basaveshwar Engineering College, Karnataka, Master in Power Electronics from National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India and Ph.D. in Bio-MEMS from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

His research interests are in the field of wearable devices and integration of bio-nano electronics and electrochemical sensing. Currently, he is developing a next-generation wearable device to measure stress conditions of concussion patients, humans and animals using sweat as the analyte. At present, he is integrating microfluidics, electrochemical sensing, and electronics to realize the next-generation wearable devices for health monitoring applications.

Currently, he is a Mitaics postdoctoral fellow in collaboration with Dr. Amin Komeli at the department of Mechanical Engineering, Sanati  Nezhad Lab and SenseSi Inc.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiran-kuruvinashetti-078b2349/?originalSubdomain=ca

Dr. Azam Zare received her Bachelor's from Persian Gulf University and her MSc and Ph.D. from Shiraz University in Mechanical Engineering – Fluid Mechanics. She is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Islamic Azad University. She joined our group as a Visiting Professor. Her interests are focused on the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis of fluid flows, flow control. She has also worked on projects related to aerosol science. Azam’s research currently focuses on numerical analysis of capillary microfluidics and developing capillary circuit models.

She is a Ph.D. student supervised by Dr. Arindom Sen and co-supervised by Dr. Amir Sanati-Nezhad.

She has completed her MSc in Biomedical Engineering- Tissue Engineering and her BSc in Biomedical Engineering- Biomaterial from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2012 and 2010, respectively.

While working in the Bio-Inspired Developing Advanced Research (BiDAR) group, she engineered manipulation in neural stem cell's fate, stem cell niche, and energy metabolism.
She is currently working on engineered control of stem cell differentiation by fine tuning their biological and physical cues.

She is an MSc student in Biomedical Engineering supervised by Dr. Amir Sanati-Nezhad. She received her BSc and MSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Tehran, Iran. Her research experience includes working at the National Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB, Tehran, Iran), Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology of Martin Luther University (Halle-Zaale, Germany), Avicenna Research Institute for monoclonal antibodies (Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran) and Terry Fox Cancer Research Laboratories in Memorial University of Newfoundland (St John’s, NL, Canada). She has worked on a variety of research projects including antimicrobial effects of essential oils, optimization, and purification of enzyme production in fungi, and gene expression analysis in cancer cell lines. She is currently working on building a 3-dimensional model to study tumors.

Fatemeh obtained her B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology(IUT), Isfahan, Iran, in 2018. Regarding her interest in Biomedical Engineering and Biomedical Science, she joined Royan Institute for Biotechnology, Isfahan, Iran, as an intern to work on the development of a retinal model on Microfluidic Chips. Through her internship, she gained practical experience in Organ-on-Chip and Tissue Engineering technologies. She started her M.Sc. in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (MME) under the supervision of Dr. Amir Sanati-Nezhad in September 2019. Currently, her research focuses on developing capillary microfluidic electrochemical biosensors for the detection of Parkinson's disease and SARS-CoV-2.

Pezhman's Ph.D. research focuses on designing and automating microfluidic systems with potential applications in drug delivery, electrochemical sensing, and the detection of small amounts of nucleic acid used in rapid test kits. He and his team aim to use disposable and low-cost materials to develop an automatic capillary-based microfluidic device that can be mass-produced not only for research purposes. Pezhman's final design, called µcDrop, features a smart vent and novel air evacuation system that has many applications, including sample digitization for point-of-care testing and sweat analysis as a wearable stress detector. Pezhman is excited to bring new ideas to life and hopes to improve the valve design and pumping process. In addition to his research, Pezhman has been an active member of NSERC CREATE We-TRAC since 2020 and has received the Brain CREATE Graduate Award in 2021 and the Alberta Graduate Excellence scholarship in 2022.

Mahrokh is M.Sc. student in Electrical Engineering, cosupervised by Dr. Kartikeya Murari and Dr. Amir Sanati-Nezhad at the University of Calgary. She currently works on electronics for wearable biosensors for longitudinal monitoring of sweat markers. 

In 2020, Mahrokh received her B.Sc. in degree in Electrical Engineering (with a focus on bioelectronics) from Sharif University of Technology. Her B.Sc. thesis project was the design and implementation of a neurostimulator for the treatment of spinal cord injury."

Mahmod is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Software Department, supervised by Dr. Far and co-supervised by Dr. Nezhad. He completed his BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering at Shiraz University of Technology, working on designing, numerical modelling, and controlling dynamic systems. Then he pursued his career at the University of Tehran to design and develop automated systems and control dynamics. As a case study, he developed a customized haptic actuator and sensor to implement a telemedicine platform.

Currently, he is working as a system modeller, optimizer, and developer integrating with Artificial Intelligent. He aims to develop an intelligent platform to optimize components for designer to develop microfluidics platforms for making in vitro diagnostic devices.