• April – Please join me in congratulating Dr. Celestine Hong on being named the 2024 Charles H. Best Fellow (MORE).
• March 2024 – Please join me in congratulating Mickael Dang, Adam Forman and Jon Labriola on being awarded 1st prize at the UofT pitch competition. We would also like to congratulate Adam on being awarded an MITACs Fellowship (MORE).
• January/February 2024 – Please join me in congratulating Dr. Celestine Hong on being awarded an Awarded NSERC postdoctoral fellowship.
• November/December 2023 – Please join me in congratulating Dr. Margaret Ho on successfully defending her PhD.
• October 2023 – Olivia Roland joined the Shoichet Lab in the Summer of 2023. Congratulations to Olivia on winning best poster award at Queens University’s Chemical Engineering Research Day, based on research done in our lab (MORE).
• September 2023 – Please join me in congratulating Drs. Carter Teal and Eric Ho on successfully defending their PhDs. Congratulations to Dhana Abdo who was the top-ranked student from the Stem Cell Network’s Summer Studentship Symposium (Cohort A). We would also like to welcome some new graduate students to our lab: Elisa Guo and Nicole Blaine.
• August 2023 – There is a lot to celebrate this month. We would like to congratulate all of our undergraduate summer students for giving great presentations (Harry Chin, Leo Guzman, Maximus Keller, Olivia Roland, Michael Jones, Ellie Monroe and Dhana Abdo). We would like to congratulate David Li and Olivia Li for both winning the prestigious Cecil Yip Doctoral scholarship from the Donnelly Centre (MORE). We would also like to congratulate Kai Slaughter and Mickael Dang who were both awarded Top Poster Presentation at the CRS 2023 Annual Meeting and Expo (MORE).
• July 2023 – We would like some new summer and co-op students to our lab. From left to right, we have Olivia Roland, Harry Chin, Dhana Abdo, Michael Jones and Maximus Keller; and to the front are Ellie Monroe and Leo Guzman (MORE). We would also like to welcome Dr. Celestine Hong, a post-doctoral fellow, to our lab. There is a lot to celebrate. Please join me in congratulating Ellie Monroe on being awarded an NSERC PROMOTE and Olivia Roland on being awarded an NSERC USRA. We would also like to congratulate Sophia Lu on being awarded a CIHR CGSM and David Li an NSERC CGSM. In publications, we would like to congratulate Laura Smith, Arianna Skirzynska, Allysia Chin and Ellie Arnold on having their paper published in ACS Materials Au. Congratulations also goes to Laura Smith, Amber Xue and Roger Tam on having their paper published in Advanced Science.
• May/June 2023 – Please join me in congratulating Dr. Nitzan Letko-Khait on winning first place in the final pitch and closing session of the Mitacs Invention to Innovation (i2I) skills training, delivered by the Beedie School of Business from Simon Fraser University! Nitzan also recently won a PRiME post-doctoral fellowship (MORE). We would also like to congratulate Margaret Ho, Hong Cui and colleagues on having their paper published in Biomaterials.
• April 2023 – There is a lot to congratulate this month. We would like to congratulate Mickael Dang on winning two awards. He won the business plan pitch competition at TERMIS-AM for Synkais, and he also won 2nd place at the ChemEng symposium in the Health Category! We would like to congratulate Lisa Zhou who won 1st place in the poster competition at a regional AIChE conference, Sophia Lu who won the CIHR CGSM, and David Li who won the NSERC CGSM. Congratulations to Lia Huo who was awarded gold medal for her poster at the ICAM Health Research Program in Quebec City!
• March 2023 – A lot to congratulate this month. We would like to congratulate Nitzan Letko-Khait who was recently awarded a PRiME-UHN post-doctoral fellowship for her stroke research, and to Laura Bahlmann, former graduate student, who was awarded an NSERC post-doctoral fellowship. We would also like to congratulate Eric Donders, Kai Slaughter, and Ahil Ganesh on having their paper accepted in Advanced Science.
• January/February 2023 – Self-assembling cholangiocytes form bile duct-like structure similar to that in liver tissue – selected as frontispiece cover. Check out the full paper here. We would also like to congratulate Tim Cheung and Amber Xue in having their paper published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
• December 2022 – We would like to congratulate Ms. Lia Huo who received a 3rd place award for her poster presentation at the MbD Symposium. We would also like to congratulate Dr. Eric Donders on securing a position at BlueRock Therapeutics.
• September 2022 – We would like some new graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to our lab. From left to right, we have Alec Tiffany, Olivia Li, David Li, Yuan Yao and Sophia Lu. (MORE)
• August 2022 – On Wednesday August 17, the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry held their annual Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UnERD). Congratulations to all our summer students who gave great presentations and for contributing to the advancement of knowledge. We would like to give special congratulations to Dania Akbar for winning the poster competition. Please also join me in congratulating Dr. Laura Bahlmann on successfully defending her PhD. (MORE)
• July 2022 – Congratulations to Amber Xue on being awarded an OGS scholarship! Please also join me in congratulating Dr. Eric Donders on successfully defending his PhD (MORE)
• June 2022 – We would like some new summer and co-op students to our lab. From left to right, we have Trevor Ottaway, Dania Akbar, William Blair, Dhana Abdo, Leo Guzman and Christopher Liang (MORE)
• May 2022 – Please join me in congratulating Arianna Skirzynska on being awarded an NSERC CGSD, and Chris Ling on being awarded an NSERC PGSD!
• April 2022 – We would like to welcome Dr. Jonathan Labriola, a post-doctoral fellow, to our lab.
• February/March 2022 – Please join me in congratulating Alexander Baker, Laura Bahlmann, Amber Xue, John Lu and Allysia Chin on their paper that is published in Materials Today. Join me in congratulating Kai Slaughter on being awarded the 2022 Dorrington Award! Please also join me in congratulating Allysia Chin on successfully getting admitted to the MD-PhD program at UofT. There are only 8 students accepted into this program, so Allysia joins an elite group of students.
• January 2022 – Please join me in congratulating Mickael Dang on being elected TERMIS-AM SYIS President-elect!
• December 2021 – Please join me in congratulating Sabrina Zuccaro on successfully defending her MASc.
• November 2021 – Please join me in congratulating Mickael Dang on placing 1st in the Reg Friesen Student Oral Paper competition, and to Arianna on placing 2nd in the 3 minute poster presentation at the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference 2021. We would also like to welcome Dr. Quinton Sirianni, a post-doctoral fellow, to our lab.
• September/October 2021 – Please join me in congratulating Rizwan on winning the 2021 Donnelly Centre Research Excellence Award!
• August 2021 – Please join me in congratulating Chiara Bostock on successfully defending her MASc thesis. On August 19, 2021, the Donnelly Centre held their Summer Student Mini Symposium. We would like to congratulate Sami Sabbah who received an honourable mention for his e-Pitch presentation.
• July 2021 – There is a lot to celebrate. Please join me in congratulating Mickael and Arianna who have both been awarded the Cecil Yip Doctoral Award. Congratulations to Amber, Eric D, and Arianna on being awarded OGS scholarships! Congratulations to Carter and Lia on being awarded Vision Science Research Scholarships. Congratulations to Mickael on being awarded an NSERC PROMOTE scholarship AND for winning first place prize at the 2021 U of T Engineering Research Conference for his Oral Presentation in the Human Health Category. Congratulations to Laura for having her Advanced Functional Materials paper chosen for inclusion in a special issue featuring awesome women scientists! We would also like to congratulate Spencer for winning the Centennial Senior Project Award from the Engineering Alumni Network. This award is awarded to one 4th year thesis/capstone student in each of the Engineering faculties, and Spencer was the winner from Engineering Science.
• June 2021 – Please join me in congratulating Arianna Skirzynska and Eric Donders who both won awards from the the 4th Annual ChemE Graduate Research Exhibition: In the category of Health Division, Arianna won 1st place and Eric won 3rd place. We would also like to congratulate three Shoichet Lab alumni: Dr. Vianney Delplace is now a permanent (tenured) researcher at INSERM – the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research; Tobias Fuehrmann is a Senior Scientist, Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Allarta Life Science; and Nick Mitrousis is a Discovery Scientist in Ophthalmology at Roche in Basel, Switzerland.
• April/May 2021 – The spring is blooming with awards. Please join me in congratulating Kai Slaughter and Tim Cheung who were both awarded an NSERC PGSD; to Chris Ling who was awarded a CIHR CGSM; to Eric Ho who was awarded the Irving O. Shoichet graduate student award. Congratulations to Arianna Skirzynska who was awarded both the Irving O. Shoichet graduate student award, and a Colin Hahnemann Bayley Fellowship. Congratulation to Tim Cheung, Chris Ling and Daniela Isaacs-Bernal who all won awards from the Canadian Biomaterials Society Meeting: Daniela won 1st place for Best Poster Presentation; Chris was awarded the Best Overall Presentation Award; and Tim got a 2nd place award for Best Presentation in the Graduate Student category (MORE). We would also like to welcome to our lab some new summer students: Daniel Kurtz, Joy Lu, Sami Sabbah and Siming Wang.
• February/March 2021 – We would like to welcome Dr. Adam Forman, a post-doctoral fellow, to our lab. We would also like to congratulate Dr. Laura Smith on securing a job at AmacaThera through a MITACs PDF with our lab.
• January 2021 – Congratulations to John Lu on successfully defending his MASc thesis. MORE
• December 2020 – We’ve nearly made it to the end of what has been a strange and difficult year, but one that has let us brave new approaches in how we do how research, interact with our friends and colleagues, and reach many milestones. Thank you to Eric Donder’s and the lab for organizing this year’s virtual holiday party, where we joined together via Zoom. Happy Holidays and wishing you all the very best in the new year!!
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• November 2020 – Please join me in congratulating Dr. Laura Smith who successfully defended her PhD in November.
• October 2020 – Please join me in congratulating Amber and Daniela on being awarded an NSERC PROMOTE. Amber was also awarded an OGS. We would also like to congratulate Muhammad Rizwan and Laura Smith on their paper that is published in Advanced Functional Materials.
• September 2020 – The Shoichet lab welcomes new graduate students Arianna Skirzynska, Christopher Ling and Lia Huo. Please join me in congratulating Eric Donders on being awarded a PRiME Fellowship. Although the Undergraduate Engineering REsearch Day (UnERD) took place last month, we would like to congratulate Bipasha Goyal on being awarded the best overall poster presentation award at UnERD.
• August 2020 – Please join me in congratulating Kai, Daniela and Amber on all being awarded the Cecil Yip Doctoral Research Award! Congratulations to Kelti Smith whose lab coat was retired after successfully defending her MASc! Please also join me in wishing all good things to Kelti as she starts a new chapter in her life in medical school – starting in just a few weeks. MORE
• July 2020 – The Shoichet lab welcomes new graduate students, Sabrina Zuccaro and Mickael Dang, and congratulates them on winning scholarships. Sabrina won an NSERC CGSM and Mickael a Connaught International Scholarship. We would also like to congratulate Amber Xue and Chiara Bostock who were awarded an OGS; Eric Donders a QEII, Arianna Skirzynska an NSRC CGSM; and Margaret Ho a Vanier.
• May/June 2020 – Please join me in congratulating Kelti Smith, Petro Czupiel and Vianney Deplace. Congratulations to Kelti Smith on winning a presentation award at the Regenerative Medicine Symposium. Petro Czupiel and Vianney Delplace on having their paper submitted to Scientific Reports. We would also like to congratulate Kelti Smith on being admitted to medical school.
• April 2020 – The momentum truly continues as scholarships are awarded to many in the Shoichet Lab. An NSERC CGS-M was awarded to Tim Cheung and Kai Slaughter; NSERC PGSD to Carter Teal and Eric Ho; Margaret Ho was awarded an NSERC CGS-D and the Vision Sciences Research Program Scholarship; and Nick Mitrousis, a lab alumnus, was awarded a CIHR PDF. Congratulations to all!
• February/March 2020 – The momentum continues with publications in the Shoichet Lab. Congratulation with one paper that has recently been published, and another papers in press. Congratulations to all of the authors! This includes Vianney Delplace and Alex Baker (Advanced Functional Materials); Laura Bahlmann and Laura Smith (Advanced Functional Materials, invited perspective).
• January 2020 – The new year has started out well for the Shoichet Lab, with one paper that has recently been published, and 3 papers accepted. Congratulations to all of the authors! This includes Anup Tuladhar (Biomaterials); Laura Bahlmann and Laura Smith (Advanced Functional Materials (invited perspective)), and Vianney Delplace and Alex Baker (Advanced Functional Materials).
• October 2019 – Congratulations to Petro Czupiel. Dr. Czupiel successfully defended his PhD in May. He is joined by Dr. Shoichet at the Fall Convocation. We would also like to congratulate Dr. Ellie Arnold who successfully defended her PhD in October.
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• August 2019 – Congratulations to all our summer undergraduate researchers who advanced knowledge and special congratulations to Emily Tsao who won the UnERD poster award in Biomedical Engineering this summer!
• July 2019 – There is a lot to celebrate this month. Congrats to all! In publications, Eric Donders on the recent publication of his paper in ACS Chemical Biology and Alexander Baker on having his paper accepted to Advanced Materials. In awards, Eric Donders for being awarded an OGS Scholarship for next year; Margaret Ho for being awarded an OGS Scholarship for next year, in addition to being awarded the Cecil Yip Doctoral Award from CCBR; Carter Teal for being awarded a VSRP scholarship for next year; and Eric Ho for being awarded the Cecil Yip Doctoral Award from CCBR.
• June 2019 – Congratulations to Dr. Ahil Ganesh, featured among the top 25 poster presentations at the GRC on Preclinical Form and Formulation for Drug Discovery. We would also like to congratulate Dr. Alexander Baker. In the June 7, 2019 Chem-Eng Newsletter, he was included among 13 grad students to watch
• May 2019 – Congrats to Eric H. who won 2nd place for his podium presentation at iARC.
• April 2019 – Congratulations to Alexander Baker. Dr. Baker successfully defended his PhD. He also won the best poster award in the Health area at the Chem Eng dinner. We would also like to welcome Dr. Muhammad Rizwan as a post-doctoral fellow to our lab. MORE
• March 2019 – A month of research stemming from our lab: Congratulations to Ahil Ganesh on his paper being accepted to ACS Chemical Biology. Congratulations to Margaret Ho and Carter Teal on their review paper being accepted to Brain Research Bulletin. Congratulations to Marian Hettiaratchi on her paper being accepted to J. Controlled Release!
• December 2018 – January 2018 – Congratulations to Eric Ho, Margaret Ho, and Carter Teal. All successfully bypassed from MASc and into the PhD program in December 2018. MORE
• August 2018 – Congratulations to Sonja Ing on successfully defending her MASc thesis! We wish Sonja great success in veterinary school at the University of Guelph. MORE
• July 2018 – Congratulations to Samantha Payne for successfully defending her PhD! We would also to congratulate Ellie Arnold, Eric Donders, and Eric Ho who have all been awarded OGS scholarships.
• June 2018 – Congratulations to Nick for successfully defending his PhD! As always, Nick had a lot to say and it was all good. Great job!
• May 2018 – Congratulations to Anup who successfully defended his PhD more than a week ago, but I’m not sure that we congratulated him with an all group e-mail. Great job Anup on getting across that finish line with an exciting new drug combination! We would also like to congratulate Jackie for successfully defending her PhD at the Departmental Oral. Jackie also did a great job explaining her data! Just one more defense left. We would also like to congratulate Anup on having a News & Views article accepted for publication in Nature Materials! MORE
• March/April 2018 – Congratulations to Alex who will be awarded the Chemical Engineering Student Life Catalyst Award! We will also like to congratulate Sonja who will now have a busy summer writing up her Master’s thesis and peer-reviewed papers before heading off to Guelph.
• January/February 2018 – Love is in the air: Join me in congratulating Linyang on her recent marriage; Alex on his recent marriage; and Anup on his recent engagement. We would also like to congratulate Dr. Stephanie Fisher who has successfully defended her PhD. MORE
• December 2017 – Congratulations to Nick Mitrousis on winning the Blue Rock Best Translational Research Poster Award at the Medicine by Design 2017 Symposium. MORE
>• November 2017 – Many congratulations in the lab: Margaret Ho on receiving the Barbara & Frank Milligan Graduate Fellowship; Jackie Obermeyer on receiving the Professor William F. Graydon Memorial Graduate Fellowship; Dr. Jennifer Logie (PhD, 8/2017) on receiving the Department of Chemical Engineering’s (UofT) Graduate Student Life Catalyst Award Therapeutic. We would also like to congratulate Dr. Roger Tam on his new position as Research Scientist in Glycobiology, at Health Canada. MORE
• October 2017 – Samantha Payne describes how she uses HAMC hydroge for cell delivery to the brain. MORE
Also, on October 24th, 2017, Petro Czupiel earned the Guinness World Record for running a half-marathon (21.1km) while dressed as a clown. Congratulations Petro on this great accomplishment! MORE
• September 2017 – We welcome Aileen Gracias (PhD, Karolinska Institute, Sweden) to our lab for graduate studies.
• August 2017 – We welcome Eric Ho (BASc, Waterloo), Margaret Ho (BMSc, Western) and Carter Teal (MEng, Imperial College, UK) to our lab for graduate studies. Many congratulations in the lab: Julia Rao on winning an award at UnERD; Ahil Ganesh, Sam Payne and Margaret Ho on receiving an OGS; and Jackie Obermeyer on receiving a QEII Scholarship. We would also like to congratulate Stephanie Fisher on securing an intership at BlueRock Therapeutics.
• June/July 2017 – We say farewell to Dr. Jennifer Logie who takes up a position at Environment Canada in Ottawa after completing an industry internship at Hammock Therapeutics.
• May 2017 – Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Sporting Life 10k Toronto Marathon MORE
• March 2017 – Congratulations to Laura Bahlmann who was awarded an NSERC CGSM
• December 2016 – Congratulations to Jennifer Logie who successfully defended her PhD! Dr. Logie is now doing an internship at Hammock Pharmaceuticals. MORE
• October/November 2016 – Congratulations to Priya Anandakumaran and Jessica Ngai who both successfully defended their Master’s of Applied Science and Engineering in September 2016. Priya is off to Columbia University to pursue her PhD and Jessica is at an internship at Merrimack Pharmaceuticals.
• September 2016 – The Shoichet Lab welcomes Dr. Ana Fokina from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Ms. Laura Bahlman, BSc Waterloo and Mr. Eric Donders, Queen’s University.
• August 2016 – Shoichet Lab swells in summer 2016 with undergraduate researchers. Welcome to the lab: Niema Binth Mohammad, Leo Zhu, Martina Heinelt, Molly Lindway, Marc Goudge, Natalie Landon-Brace, Elliott Birman, Oriana Shaw, and Shorab Zand.
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• June/July 2016 – Congratulations! Leah Kesselman, Irja Elliott Donaghue, and Malgosia Pakulska celebrate after convocation with Molly Shoichet.
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• May 2016 – Congratulations to all the presenters at WBC2016. Our lab was well presented with both current graduate students, as well as former graduate students!
• April 2016 – Congratulations to Linyang Yu on successfully passing her PhD bypass exam.
• January 2016 – Congratulations to Irja Donaghue Elliott on successfully defending her PhD, as well as Leah Kesselman on her MASc.
• December 2015 – Congratulations to Malgosia Pakulska on successfully defending her PhD and securing a great job with Medicine by Design. We would also like to congratulate Samantha Payne on winning one of the three prizes awarded by the Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s (OIRM), for their Pitchfest competition. A video will be put together after the New Year and available in Spring…stay tuned!
• October/November 2015 – There are many to whom we wish to extend our congratulations. In awards, congratulations to Ellie Arnold on receiving the 2015 Cecil Yip Doctoral Research Award. Congratulations to Petro Czupiel and Jessica Ngai on their recent OGS scholarships. Congratulations to Stephanie Fisher, Anup Tuladhar and Samantha Payne who have all been awarded QEII Graduate Scholarships. We would also like to congratulation Jamie Parker who sucessfully completed his Master of Science in Chemistry. We wish Jamie great success in Law School her at UofT.
• July/August 2015 – The Shoichet Lab welcomes the following summer students: Shermaine Li, Jay Chi, Jill Harrop, Elliot Birman, and Molly Lindway.
• June 2015 – Congratulations to Shoichet Lab Alumnus, Prof Nic Leipzig, on his recent promotion to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Akron! Also, our innovative hydrogel for cell transplantation to the eye and brain, co-led by Brian Ballios and Michael Cooke, garnered national and international attention.
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• March/April 2015 – There is a lot to celebrate in these last couple of months. Congratulations to Katarina Vulic on her new job at Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research. Congratulations to Priya Anandakumaran and Laura Smith on winning the prestigious NSERC CGSM! Congratulations to Ellie Arnold on winning a prestigious NSERC CGSD!
• January/February 2015 – We are delighted to welcome Dr. Vianney Delplace from Universite de Paris Sud to the Shoichet Lab as a post-doctoral fellow.
• November/December 2014 – Congratulations to Katarina Vulic who will receive her PhD at convocation on November 21 and to Karyn Ho who will receive her Masters in Biomedical Communications on November 19. Molly is super excited to be speaking at Katarina’s convocation on November 21. Katarina is currently doing an internship at Novartis in Cambridge, MA and Karyn is working at Mechanisms in Medicine to develop visual patient education resources as a 3D animator and senior grants manager.
• October/November 2014 – We welcomed a number of students to our lab, who have also come with a number of awards: We welcome Linyang Yu and congratulate her on winning a prestigious Connaught Graduate Scholarship; we welcome Ellie Arnold to the lab and congratulate her for winning an NSERC CGSM scholarship; we welcome Jessica Ngai and congratulate her on winning an NSERC CREATE in M3 scholarship; congratulations also goes to Irja Donaghue Elliott and Katarina Vulic who have also won the this award. We also welcome Laura Smith to the lab.
• August/September 2014 – There are many to whom we wish to extend our congratulations: Congratulations to Alexander Baker for winning the best poster prize at the Canadian Biomaterials Society meeting in 2014 and an NSERC CGSD.Congratulation to Anup Tuladahar for winning an OGS Scholarship, and the Mary Gertrude l’Anson Scholarship; Ahil Ganesh for winning an NSERC PGSD; Jackie Obermeyer for winning an NSERC CGSD; Leah Kesselman for winning an NSERC CGSD; and Tobi Fuehrmann for winning a CIHR TPRM post-doctoral scholarship. We welcome Priya Anandakumaran to the lab for graduate school and congratulate her for winning a QEII OGSST graduate scholarship.
• January-February 2014 – We congratulate Dr. Shawn Owen, former post-doctoral fellow, who started as a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah. We would also like to congratulate Dr. Brian Ballios, former PhD student, won the first place poster prize for the MD/PhD category at the 28th annual Medical Student Research Day (MSRD), that was held on January 28, 2014. The event showcased a total of 170 posters submitted across nine different research categories; and to Dr. Karyn Ho, former PhD student, who was recently named a Vesalian Scholar.
• October-December 2013 – Congratulations to Yuanfei Wang for successfully defending her PhD! We wish Yuanfei all the best as she returns to work at Fletcher Spaght, Inc. We would also like to congratulate Anup on receiving the TPRM graduate student fellowship, Tobi for receiving the TPRM post-doctoral fellowship, and Mike for receiving the MITACs ELEVATE post-doctoral fellowship and inclusion in the Rotman school Creative Destructive Lab program.
• August/September 2013 – Congratulations to Brian G. Ballios, PhD on winning the prestigious Donnelly Centre thesis prize. Congratulations also to Priya Anandakumaran for winning undergraduate awards for her summer research from both IBBME for her oral presentation and UnERD for her poster presentation. Congratulations to Michael Cooke, PhD for winning a MITACs elevate post-doctoral fellowship and to Chris McLaughlin for winning a prestigious NSERC PDF.
• June/July 2013 – Congratulations to Brian G. Ballios, PhD who officially received his PhD at convocation in June 2013. We wish Brian best of luck as he continues his medical school training. Please also welcome the newest members of the Shoichet Group: Chris McLaughlin, PhD (post-doctoral fellow); Jamie Parker (Master’s student); Ahil Ganesh (Master’s student).
• May 2013 – Join me in congratulating Jackie Obermeyer for getting first prize in the IBBME poster competition in her category; Petro Czupiel for getting honourable mention in the IBBME poster competition in his category; Ahil Ganesh for winning an OGS; and Leah Kesselman for winning an NSERC CGSM.
• March 2013 – We congratulate Dr. Shawn Owen on winning the prestigious Controlled Release Society T. Nagai Postdoc Research Achievement Award.
• December 2012 – Congratulations to Daniel McLean who successfully defended his PhD at the department level and will return to defend his PhD at the University level in the new year. We wish Dan great success as he pursues a policy internship with Health Canada.
• October 2012 – Congratulations to Brian Ballios for successfully defending his PhD. We wish Brian great success as he returns to medical school to finish his MD. And congratulations to Roger Tam and Karyn Ho for their cover art on the October 2012 issue of J Materials Chemistry. MORE
• September/October 2012 – Congratulations to Dianna Chan and Matt Caicco for successfully defending their Master’s of Applied Science degrees. We wish Dianna all the best as she embarks on her new career at Kraft and are delighted that Matt will stay to explore commercial properties of HAMC. And welcome the newest members of the Shoichet lab: Petro Czupiel, Dr. Tobi Fuehrman, Leah Kesselman, Jackie Obermeyer and Samantha Payne.
• August 2012 – Congratulations to Karyn Ho for successfully defending her PhD! We wish Karyn all the best as she dives into the world of Biomedical Communications. Congratulations also goes to Shawn Owen’s paper in ACS Chemical Biology. It is in the top 10 most downloaded from ACS Chemical Biology in the last 12 months. MORE
• May 2012 – Congratulations to Brian Ballios for winning the first place price for science talks at the IMS Scientific Day. Congratuations also goes to Matt Caicco and Malgosia Pakulska for winning a travel award to this summers Controlled Release Society meeting; and for Anup Tuladhar on winning an OGS Scholarship. Well done to all!
• April 2012 – Congratulations to Jennifer Logie on winning an NSERC CGS-M! Also congratulations to Ryan Wylie on winning a Banting Post-doctoral Fellowship!
>• February/March 2012 – Congratulations to Jiao Lu for successfully defending her Ph.D.! We wish Dr. Lu all the best as she pursues a post-doctoral fellowship in Japan at Kyoto University, under the supervision of Prof. Akiyoshi Kazunari; she is being hired by the Japan Science and Technology Agengy (JST). Also to congratulate are: Brian Ballios for having his paper on retinal stem cell differentiation to photoreceptors published in Biology Open; Jason Stanwick and Doug Baumann for their paper on the controlled release of anti-NogoA in Int. J. Pharmaceutics; and Ira Schmid has completed a 6-month exchange from Johannes-Gutenberg, Universitat Mainz, Germany and will return to her home institution
• January 2012 – Congratulations to Chelsea Nimmo and Karyn Ho for their cover art of Bioconjugate Chemistry. Also to congratulate are: Katarina Vulic for her innovative delivery system, published in JACS; Karyn Ho for her novel cancer delivery system, published in Biomaterials; Daniel McLean for his informative brain imaging system, published in J. Controlled Release; and Yuanfei Wang for her new local delivery system to the brain, published in Biomaterials
• November/December 2011 – Congratulations to Yukie Aizawa for successfully defending her PhD! We wish Yukie all the best as she returns to work at Kaneka. We congratulate Howard Kim, PhD; Ryan Wylie, PhD; Chelsea Nimmo, MSc; and Jason Stanwick, MASc, all of whom formally received their degrees at convocation in November.
• October 2011 – Congratulations to Ryan Wylie for successfully defending his PhD thesis. We wish Ryan continued success as he pursues a post-doctoral fellowship in Robert Langer’s laboratory at MIT. We would also like to congratulate Doug Baumann, PhD, on his new job at Syngenta.
• September 2011 – Congratulations to three new graduates from The Shoichet Lab. Howard Kim successfully defended his PhD and is now pursuing a career at Bayliss Medical. Jason Stanwick successfully defended his MASc and is pursuing a career at Apotex. Chelsea Nimmo successfully presented her MSc and is now pursuing a law degree at McGill University. Congratulations to Howard, Jason and Chelsea and best of luck in their new careers.
• August 2011 – Shoichet lab undergraduates sweep prizes at the annual Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UnERD) symposium. Anthony Vo won first prize in the afternoon podium presentation session and Joshua Budman won second prize in the morning podium presentation session. Congratulations to Anthony and Josh! We wish Anthony great success at the University of Ottawa where he begins medical school and Josh best of luck as he returns to John Hopkins for his third year of Biomedical Engineering