In the News

• "ECE Researchers Awarded Outstanding Young Researcher Award," ECE News, UBC, Jul 2023.

• "Award Winners," The 22nd International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers 2023), Jun 2023.

• "Tiny but mighty," SBME Instagram, UBC, Feb 2023.

• "ECE/UBC Researchers Are Changing Pressure Sensors and Their Potential Applications," ECE News, UBC, Feb 2023.

• "Welcome to SBME's Takahata Lab!," SBME Instagram, UBC, Aug 2020.

• "Smart Stent Monitors Artery Blood Flow," Inside Science, Youtube, Oct 2019.

• "Breakthroughs and trends in the world of technology: Telltale Heart," Prism, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Jan 2019.

• "New multidisciplinary approaches yield thinner, stronger, better stents," IEEE Pulse, Nov/Dec 2018.

• "'Smart stent' detects narrowing of arteries," The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Jul 2018.

• "Smart Stents Detect Narrowing Arteries," The Alliance of Advanced Biomedical Engineering, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Jul 2018 .

• "Tech to check blood flow," The Independent, Jul 14, 2018.

• "Artery Alert System," Biomedical Picture Of The Day, Jul 11, 2018.

• "The brand new implant that can warn if you're about to have a heart attack," Daily Mail, Jul 9, 2018.

• "This “Smart Stent” Can Monitor Blood Flow and Detect Narrowing of Artery," Wearable Technologies, Jul 2018.

• "Wireless, smart stent to help detect re-narrowing of arteries," BioWorld MedTech, 22(127), pp. 1 & 8, Jul 2, 2018.

• "Novel "smart stent" can tell physicians when restenosis is occurring," Cardiovascular News, Jun 2018.

• "Enabling Angioplasty-Ready "Smart" Stents to Detect In-Stent Restenosis and Occlusion - Q&As," Medical Research, Jun 2018.

• "SMART STENTS MONITOR BLOOD FLOW, PREVENT HEART ATTACKS," The Asian Age, p. 11, Jun 21, 2018.

• "Smart stent feels the squeeze to alert doctors and keep patients safe," The Engineer, Jun 2018.

• "Smart stents can better prevent heart attacks," Financial Express, Jun 2018.

• "Smart Stent Allows for Early Detection of Restenosis in Heart Surgery Patients," Electronics 360, Jun 2018.

• "Smart stents can better prevent heart attacks," Business Standard, Jun 2018.

• "SMART STENT DETECTS NARROWING OF ARTERIES," Breakfast Television, City TV, Jun 20, 2018.

• "UBC team develops 'smart stent'," Global News Hour at 6, Global News TV, Jun 19, 2018.

• "Smart stent stands guard for narrowing arteries and sends alerts," New Atlas, Jun 2018.

• "'Smart stent' detects narrowing of arteries," UBC Engineering News, Jun 2018.

• "UBC team advances "smart" stent technology toward clinical application," Research Spotlights, UBC Applied Science, Jun 2018.

• "Advanced Science Magazine Cover Features Paper From UBC ECE's Kenichi Takahata and Team," T-NET, Jun 2018.

• "A stainless-steel-based implantable pressure sensor chip and its integration by microwelding," Advances In Engineering, Sep 2017.

• "Electrical and Computer Engineering professors included in Best of Physica Status Solidi 2014," UBC Public Affairs, Apr 2014.

• "Eight Canada Research Chairs valued at $4.5M appointed at UBC," UBC Public Affairs, Mar 2013.

• "Bidirectional actuation of ferrofluid using micropatterned planar coils assisted by bias magnetic fields," Advances in Engineering, Nov 2012.

• "Micromirrors reflect light in darkest material," Ingenuity, UBC Applied Science, Fall 2012, p. 15.

• "Researchers work carbon nanotubes for flexible electronics," Electronics Weekly, Sep 2012.

• "Mirrors take root in pitch-black nanotube forest," New Scientist, vol. 2880, p. 15, Sep 2012.

• "Radio aneurysm coils for noninvasive detection of cerebral embolization failures: A preliminary study," Advances In Engineering, May 2012.

• "Improving on implants," in Success Stories, CMC Microsystems, Apr 2012.

• "ON POURRAIT SUIVRE LES ANÉVRISMES À DISTANCE," SCIENCE&VIE, No. 1132, Jan 2012, p. 33.

• "New technology to monitor brain aneurysms," Ingenuity, UBC Applied Science, Fall 2011-Winter 2012, pp. 15 & 22.

• "Investigadores monitorean aneurismas cerebrales sin rayos X," Reporte Ciencia NL, Nov 16, 2011.

• "動脈瘤を自宅でモニターできる日も近い？" Japan Medical Design & Manufacturing Technology (JMD&MT), Nov 15, 2011.

• "ブリティッシュコロンビア大、脳動脈瘤、術後の患者が観察" Nikkei Business Daily, Nov 9, 2011, p. 7.

• "New technology to monitor brain aneurysms," ScienceDaily, Nov 7, 2011.

• "Researchers monitor brain aneurysms without X-rays," The Engineer, Nov 7, 2011.

• "UBC researchers devise new technology to monitor brain aneurysms," UBC Public Affairs, Nov 4, 2011.

• "Q&A: Implantable medical devices," (online discussion) in SHAPING THE FUTURE, The Globe and Mail, Nov 3, 2011.

• "Fantastic Voyage redux: Medicine's future is smarter implants," in SHAPING THE FUTURE, The Globe and Mail, Nov 2, 2011.

• "The Moving Forests," IET Electronics Letters, 47(14), 2011, Jul 7 2011, p. 786.

• "CANADA: Universities receive health research funding", University World News, Aug 15, 2010.

• "Bientot un stent intelligent," L'Express du Pacifique, Aug 2, 2010.

• "UBC gets $1.7M in health research grants", CBC News, Jul 8, 2010.

• "If These Arterial Walls Could Talk..." FOCUS, Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS), UBC, Spring 2010.

• "UBC Engineering wishes all the best for Canadian athletes!", UBC Engineering, Feb 18, 2010.

• "Micro research with enormous potential", Ingenuity, UBC Applied Science, Fall 2008.

• "Stentenna," a functional stent that transmits pressure and flow data," Annals of Vascular Surgery, 19(5), Sep 2005, cover page and inside cover p. A7.

• "Stent levert info," De Ingenieur, No. 8, May 7, 2004, p. 14.

• "'Stentenna' signals U-M tech spinoff'," Business Direct Weekly, MI, USA, Apr 29-May 5 2004, pp. 3, 35.

• "Flow chart: US researchers successfully test wireless implant to monitor and improve blood flow," The Engineer, Apr 16-29 2004, p. 14.

• "Radio stent," MIT Technology Review, Mar 2004, p. 18.

• "'Stentennas' could signal change in monitoring arteries," Smalltimes, Mar/Apr 2004, p. 57.

• "A stent that communicates," The Washington Post, Mar 30, 2004, Health section, p. F2

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