Pioneering research bridges engineering and medicine

Dr. Victor Yang dreams of building better surgical devices. Now, his journey to do just that will take place at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry , as the innovative neuroscientist and biomedical engineer joins the faculty in the department of clinical neurological sciences. Yang said the collaborative environment found in London, Ont.'s health-care network makes it the perfect place to turn his dream into reality. "I'm looking forward to the research environment at the university, I think it will be refreshing," he said. "I hope we will be able to make a lot of technologies mature and make them available to patients. That's what I hope to do in the next 10 years." Passionate about science from a young age, Yang's career in medicine stemmed from his undergraduate studies in engineering. In his fourth year, his trajectory took a turn while attempting to build a surgical microscope for a thesis project.