2023
August 30 2023: Anjali joined the group as a PhD candidate. Welcome Anjali.
August 30 2023: Ludivine completed her 24 weeks MITACS Globalink Research internship.
August 30 2023: Matheus completed his 9 months graduate student trainee internship on a CAPES Scholarship from Universidade Federal de Itajuba and the Brazil Government.
August 16 2023: Congratulations to Hui Wen for the acceptance of her paper in Biomacromolecules.
August 14 2023: Ana Cristina Torres Martinez from Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico completed her 12 weeks MITACS Globalink Research Internship.
August 11 2023: Congratulations to Natali and Hui Wen for the acceptance of their paper in Aspects of Molecular Medicine.
July 28 2023: Congratulations to Laura for being awarded the Sterry Hunt Teaching Award!
January 2023: Samaneh joins the group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome Samaneh!
2022
December 2022: Matheus joins the group as a graduate research trainee. Welcome Matheus!
June 28 2022: Congratulations to Mojhdeh, Hui Wen, Issan and Victor for the acceptance of their paper in Macromolecular Bioscience.
June 2 2022: Hui Wen got the FRQNT Doctoral Fellowship. Congratulations Hui Wen!
May 20 2022: Laura Sofia Reyes Castellanos joined the group on a MITACS Summer Globalink Research Internship. Welcome Laura!
February 14 2022: Mojhdeh’s review article is published ASAP in Molecular Pharmaceutics. Congratulations Mojhdeh.
January 15 2022: Dr Rohini Singh joins the group as a FRQNT PBEEE Post-doctoral Fellow. Welcome, Rohini.
2021
October 28 2021: Congratulations to Hui Wen on the acceptance of her review "The unexplored potential of gas-responsive polymers in drug delivery: progress, challenges and outlook" in Polymer International! Invited review as part of the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium presented at the Spring National 2021 American Chemical Society meeting sponsored by the Division of Polymer Chemistry of ACS.
September 2021: Fei joins the group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome, Fei!
July 22 2021: Congratulations to Evan, Victor, Qiaochu, Evan, and Jack on the acceptance of their paper "Human astrocytes and astrocytoma respond differently to resveratrol" in Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine!
June 12 2021: Congratulations to Hui Wen on the acceptance of her review article "Nanoengineering Branched Star Polymer-Based Formulations: Scope, Strategies, and Advances" in Macromolecular Bioscience!
May 2021: Natali and Jessica join the group for CHEM 396 Undergraduate Research Experience project.
January 2021: Laura joins the group to start her Ph.D. Welcome, Laura!
2020
October 27 2020: Congratulations to Victor, Hossein, Qiaochu, Evan and Anastasiia on the acceptance of their paper "Miktoarm polymers with environment-selective ROS/GSH responsive locations: From modular synthesis to tuned drug release through micellar partial corona shedding and/or core disassembly" in Macromolecular Bioscience!
October 26 2020: Congratulations to Parinaz on the acceptance of her review article "Effect of physico-chemical properties of nanoparticles on their intracellular uptake" in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences!
September 29 2020: An invited review article "Dendrimers as modulators of brain cells" by Dusica Maysinger, Qiaochu Zhang and Ashok Kakkar, got accepted in Molecules!
September 12 2020: Congratulations to Dr Amir Sheikhi (Assistant Professor, PennState) for being selected as one of the 35 Most Influential Chemical Engineers Under 35 by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
August 31 2020: Congratulations to Victor for submitting his MSc thesis!
August 28 2020: Congratulations to Søren on the acceptance of his paper ”Telodendrimers: Promising architectural polymers for drug delivery" as a feature article in Molecules!
August 27 2020: Congratulations to Victor on the acceptance of his paper ”Miktoarm star polymers: Branched architectures in drug delivery”, as a feature article in Pharmaceutics!
June 30 2020: Congratulations to Parinaz, Jeff, Victor, Alex, and Ramez on the acceptance of their paper "Facile design of autogenous stimuli-responsive chitosan/hyaluronic acid nanoparticles for efficient small molecules to protein delivery" in Journal of Materials Chemistry B.
June 3 2020: Congratulations to Søren on the publication of his chapter “N-Heterocyclic Dendrimers: Hyperbranched Frameworks Containing Triazole, Triazine, Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Ring Structures”, in the book Dendrimer Chemistry: Synthetic approaches towards complex architectures.
May 1 2020: Jenny joins the group for an NSERC USRA research project.
February 12 2020: Congratulations to Hossein on the publication of his paper, "Telodendrimer-based macromolecular drug design using 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition for applications in biology", in Molecules! (Featured article in special issue, "Dendrimers in Biomedicine")
2019
November 23 2019: Congratulations to Parinaz, Mandana and Hossein on the publication of their recent article, “Stimuli Responsive Chitosan as an Advantageous Platform for Efficient Delivery of Bioactive Agents”, in Journal of Controlled Release!
November 19 2019: Congratulations to Victor who won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the Quebec Center for Advanced Materials/The Center Québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels (QCAM/CQMF) Annual Student Symposium, held at Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec on Nov 18 2019.
October 18 2019: Mojhdeh joined the group from Amirkabir University as a Graduate Research Trainee. Welcome, Mojhdeh.
September 6 2019: Hui Wen joined the group to start her Ph.D. Welcome, Hui Wen.
September 3 2019: Congratulations to Alex, Jessica, Richard on the publication of their recent article "Unraveling Aqueous Self-Assembly of Telodendrimers to Shed Light on Their Efficacy in Drug Encapsulation" in ACS Applied Bio Materials!
September 3 2019: Qiaochu starts her CHEM 480 Undergraduate Research Project.
September 3 2019: Annie joins the group for CHEM 396 Undergraduate Research Experience project.
August 26 2019: Anastasiia heads back to Ukraine after completing her MITACS Globalink Research Internship. Bon Voyage Anastasiia.
August 26 2019: Qiaochu completed her CHEM 396 Undergraduate Research Experience.
August 23 2019: Congratulations to Yu-Chen who submitted her Ph.D. thesis.
August 14 2019: Congratulations to Alex, Ramez, and Tongyue on the publication of their recent article "PEG-conjugated pyrrole-based polymers: one-pot multicomponent synthesis and self-assembly into soft nanoparticles for drug delivery" in Chemical Communications!