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Hamideh Emrani

Hamideh is a scientific communicator and the founder of Emrani Communications, serving clients in Toronto (University of Toronto) and California (Stanford University). She earned her B.Sc. in Cell and Molecular Biology at UC Berkeley and finished her M.Sc. at the University of Toronto (U of T). She was an intern at the Carnegie Institute at Stanford University, honours research student at UC Berkeley and has won awards for best podium and best poster presentations at the Faculty of Dentistry and IBBME at U of T. She is passionate about science and loves to talk and write about it. You can follow Hamideh on Twitter at @HamidehEmrani.

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Right Turn: Turning the brain on and off with optogenetics

Author: Hamideh Emrani, 10/02/15

. So many of today’s biomedical advances are only possible because of a step forward in basic science research that happened many years ago. Basic science, be it biology, math or physics, always tries to advance our knowledge of the universe around us. It doesn’t promise to develop drugs or cure disease, but sometimes leads […]

Q. What do cyborg beetles and the smart bandage have in common? A. An innovative researcher.

Author: Hamideh Emrani, 08/10/15

. In her series “What drives research in the field of biomaterials?” blogger Hamideh Emrani interviews a third highly respected biomaterials researcher. You can read her interviews with Professors John Davies and Craig Simmons (University of Toronto) here and here. My last post was about an exciting development called the smart bandage. I was visiting […]

‘Smart bandage’ for timely detection of bedsores

Author: Hamideh Emrani, 06/08/15

. Some of my fond memories of childhood are from the times that my great grandma and grandpa visited us. They told us sweet stories and shared memories of much simpler times. But they had worries too. I vividly remember that one of my great grandmother’s main fears was to live to an old age, […]