Congratulations to Dr. Samantha McWhirter!
Way to go, Sam! Congrats on your fabulous thesis on formulating lipid nanoparticles to deliver microRNAs to treat dysregulated immune responses.
Mikhael Nazarov wins a Vanier!
Congratulations to Mikhael, who won the Government of Canada's top post-graduate scholarship, the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship! https://www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/news/nazarov-and-hu-named-2025-vanier-scholars
NorthMiRs Announced as Winner of ECHO PITCH 2024 ! News from the Walker-dos Santos labs’ Pharmaceutical start-up.
NorthMiRs Inc., an innovative cardiovascular biotech start-up, has won $250,000 in funding from the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research's Entrepreneurship for Cardiovascular Health Opportunities (ECHO) PITCH https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/chemistry-startup-northmirs-wins-250k-develop-heart-failure-treatment-sepsis-patients https://ca.linkedin.com/company/northmirs
Congrats to Lab members for Awards in 2024!
Mikhail Nazarov, Irene Miller Graduate Award (2024) Guillermo Lonzano Onrubia , Michael J. Dignam Graduate Travel Award (2024) Guillermo Lonzano Onrubia, David H. Farrar Graduate Scholarship in Chemistry (2024) Guillermo Lonzano Onrubia, Poster award at the ACS Summer School, Golden, Colorado, [...]
Nashmia’s new in vivo technetium-99m labelled nanochitosan paper is online, open access!
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/13/2198 "Synthesis, biodistribution, and kinetic study of technetium-99m loaded hydrophobically modified glycol chitosan Micelles"
Yay, Kris! Your new paper is out in Aquaculture! “Efficacy of neem extract against sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) infestations: a potential biopesticide for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) ”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0044848622005695
Congrats to Mia for winning a poster prize at SOUCC!
Mia and Nashmia's poster was titled "Making Sense of Senescence: Relationship of UVB exposure to p16, p21, and p53" and was presented at the Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC)
Congrats to Kevin for his new paper in Macromolecules!
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.macromol.1c02270 © 2022 American Chemical Society
Congrats to Ilias for his new paper in Biomacromolecules!
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biomac.1c01512
Congrats to Logan!
Logan Zettle mints his MSc!