Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. These are also the deadly diseases that the research team of Victor Yang (EngSci 9T7, MASc ECE 9T8) aims to alleviate.
Yang is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ryerson University, and a Canada Research Chair in bioengineering and biophotonics. He’s also a medical doctor with surgical training and works with neurosurgeons in several teaching hospitals. So Yang understands how the smallest, most precise tools can bring about huge changes in a patient’s treatment and health.
To that end, Yang has two research interests: developing new techniques to image the human body, and devising novel tools for minimally invasive procedures. Both areas rely on Yang’s expertise in an emerging type of medical imaging technology – Doppler optical coherence tomography (DOCT).
