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Professor Arun K. Misra winner of 2017 Dirk Brouwer Award

Professor Arun K. Misra recently received the Dirk Brouwer Award "for his outstanding and lasting contributions to astrodynamics of tethered satellite systems, flexible spacecraft, spacecraft orbiting...

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McGill has recently reopened (new deadline: May 15th) applications for the...

 1. Doctoral and Masters (Thesis): If interested, we encourage that you first obtain approval from a Professor in the department who would be willing to supervise your research and then complete the...

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Surgical sutures inspired by human tendons

Sutures are used to close wounds and speed up the natural healing process, but they can also complicate matters by causing damage to soft tissues with their stiff fibers. To remedy the problem,...

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Synthetic tissue can repair hearts, muscles, and vocal cords

Combining knowledge of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering, scientists from McGill University develop a biomaterial tough enough to repair the heart, muscles, and vocal cords, representing a...

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Using sound and bubbles to make bandages stickier and longer lasting

Researchers have discovered that they can control the stickiness of adhesive bandages using ultrasound waves and bubbles. This breakthrough could lead to new advances in medical adhesives, especially...

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Flatworm-inspired medical adhesives stop blood loss

Every year around 2 million people die worldwide from hemorrhaging or blood loss. Uncontrolled hemorrhaging accounts for more than 30% of trauma deaths. To stop the bleeding, doctors often apply...

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MyoChallenge 23 competition @ NeurIPS 23

The NeuROC Lab is coordinating the MyoChallenge with colleagues from the University of Twente, Northeastern University and Meta AI.The challenge is based on MyoSuite and has one track on locomotion and...

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NeuRoC Lab featured in IEEE Spectrum

Our Lab was featured in IEEE Spectrum on our work in MyoSuite.More about it in the IEEE Spectrum website.Published: 31 August 2023

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NeuRoc Lab is joining the CRIR and the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital

The NeuRoc Lab is joining the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal and the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital at Laval.This will give us better access to clinicians...

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NeuRoc Lab is Joining CIM

The NeuRoc Lab is Joining the Center of Intelligent Machine (CIM) @McGill Published: 12 January 2024

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