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The primary structural protein found in connective tissues, skin, and bones widely used to create biological scaffolds in tissue engineering.
What is collagen?
CUBEC stands for a student-led, national, government-registered non-profit promoting education, inclusion, and awareness in the biomedical engineering industry and research community among undergraduates across Canada.
What is the Canadian Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Council?
The official year UCalgary’s BSc major in Biomedical Engineering was launched.
What is 2021?
This non-invasive imaging technology uses powerful magnetic fields and radio waves to generate detailed structural maps of internal soft organs.
What is the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)?
In Canada, medical devices are classified into four risk-based classes (I to IV) and regulated by this federal department under the Food and Drugs Act.
What is Health Canada?
This type of stem cell, capable of giving rise to any cell type in the body, is frequently studied in regenerative medicine.
What are pluripotent stem cells
This local student society at the University of Calgary helps connect local undergraduate students with regional and national initiatives like CUBEC and works with CUBEC to host events.
What is the Biomedical Engineering Student Society (BMESS)?
This UCalgary building completed in 2002 now houses the university’s Biomedical Engineering department -- Full name :)
What is Calgary Center for Innovative Technology (CCIT)?
This standard medical sensor, typically clipped onto a finger, uses red and infrared light absorption to non-invasively measure arterial blood oxygen saturation
What is the pulse oximeter?
For undergraduate students aiming for graduate research or industry roles, performing this initial step—systematically searching databases like PubMed or IEEE Xplore—is essential before starting any design or lab project.
What is a literature review?
This bioelectrical waveform peak on an electrocardiogram (ECG) represents the rapid electrical depolarization of the right and left human ventricles
What is the QRS complex?
The conference date to save while keeping an eye out for registration announcements on CUBEC's Instagram and LinkedIn to secure your spot.
What is January 30th, 2027?
(Saturday January 30th, 2027)
In 1921, Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best successfully isolated this hormone at the University of Toronto, marking a landmark moment in bio-therapeutics and diabetes management.
What is insulin?
This advanced microfluidic technology mimics the physical microenvironment and functional dynamics of human organs, such as lungs or the gut, for drug testing.
What is an organ-on-a-chip?
EDIT: A biomedical engineering company that has hired UCalgary students.
What is: Circle, Providence Therapeutics,
In biofluids, this dimensionless ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces determines whether blood flow in a vessel is smooth and laminar or chaotic and turbulent
What is the Reynolds number (Re)
The 2023–2024 academic year marked CUBEC’s first in-person conference spanning Montreal, Toronto, and Calgary, bringing together over this many students.
What is 400+ students?
(Bonus fact! Last year’s conference hosted over 1000+ attendees and partnered with over 30 companies. This year we’re projecting 1100+ attendees with over 35 affiliated companies)
Created and funded in 1995, this American philanthropic foundation contributed over $700 million to establish formal BME departments and degree programs worldwide (including UCalgary).
What is the Whitaker Foundation?
In modern mRNA vaccines and gene therapies, these lipid-based nanostructures encapsulate fragile nucleic acids to shield them from enzymatic degradation and facilitate endocytosis into cells.
What are Lipid Nanoparticles (LNPs)?
In clinical trial design, this trial phase involves large-scale multi-center testing across hundreds to thousands of patients to demonstrate statistical efficacy and safety for final regulatory approval.
What is a Phase III trial (or Pivotal Trial)?
The large, non‑cellular network of proteins and other macromolecules that provides both structural support and biochemical signaling, influences cell adhesion, communication, growth, movement, and tissue repair.
What is the Extracellular Matrix?
During the 2025–2026 academic year, CUBEC hosted over 1,000 attendees, partnered with over 30 companies, and launched this inaugural signature competition featuring over 200 competitors.
What is the True North Biomedical Competition?
(Bonus fact: This year we are bringing in 15 universities and 200 competitors. UCalgary’s BMERIT Club is one of the universities)
Known as the "Father of Biomedical Engineering in Canada," this National Research Council electrical engineer invented the world’s first external artificial pacemaker in 1950.
Who is John "Jack" Hopps?
(Bonus fact: He is from Winnipeg and did his electrical degree at the University of Manitoba)
In advanced sports rehabilitation, this pressure-controlled treadmill technology uses lower-body positive pressure to reduce effective body weight by up to 80%, allowing injured athletes to run with reduced joint impact.
What is an anti-gravity treadmill?
One of the Top 10 non-North American countries to work in Biomedical Engineering.
What is: Germany, Switzerland, Australia, United Kingdom, Sweden, Singapore, Japan, France