Collaborations

David Latulippe (Chemical Engineering, McMaster)

• Functionalized biopolymers for wastewater treatment and bioseparations, microplastics 

Heather Sheardown (Chemical Engineering, McMaster)

• Injectable ophthalmic drug delivery vehicles

Zeinab Hosseini-Doust (Chemical Engineering, McMaster)

• Phage-based printable hydrogels for treating infections

Carlos Filipe (Chemical Engineering, McMaster)

• Integrated DNA-based biosensing technologies

Prashant Mhaskar (Chemical Engineering, McMaster)

• Model-based prediction of materials properties

Igor Zhitomirsky (Materials Science & Engineering, McMaster)

• Carbonized macroporous hydrogels for energy applications

Kyla Sask (Materials Science & Engineering, McMaster)

• Blood-biomaterials interactions

Leyla Soleymani (Engineering Physics, McMaster)

• Hydrogel-coated electrochemical biosensors with enhanced signal: noise performance

Ravi Selvaganapathy (Mechanical Engineering, McMaster)

• Microfluidics-based particle generation and 3D printing technologies

Ram Mishra (Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster)

• Delivering antipsychotic drugs to the brain

Gregory Steinberg (Medicine, McMaster)

• Creating synergistic drug therapies for liver cancer 

Brian Coombes (Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences, McMaster)

• Developing wound dressings for antibiotic-resistant wound infections

Lori Burrows (Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences, McMaster)

• Developing anti-infective surface coatings for viral deactivation and preventing biofilm formation

Yingfu Li (Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences, McMaster)

• Developing high-sensitivity aptamer-based DNA biosensors

Kjetil Ask (Respirology, McMaster)

• Designing porous microparticles for treating lung fibrosis, including late-stage COVID-19 

Jeremy Hirota (Respirology, McMaster)

• 3D bioprinting of functional airways 

David Koff (Radiology, McMaster)

• Engineering cork-shell microcapsules for ultrasound-triggered cancer therapy 

Yonghong Wan (Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster)

• Fabricating nanoparticle nanoclusters with improved tumour penetration 

Susan Dudley (Biology, McMaster)

• Understanding the transport and physiological effects of nanoparticles on plants

Joanna Wilson (Biology, McMaster)

• Zebrafish screening of environmental polymer and nanoparticle toxicity

Jose Moran-Mirabal (Chemistry, McMaster)

• Designing and characterizing nanostructured smart materials

Michael Brook (Chemistry, McMaster)

• Integrating hydrogels with functional silicones

Ryan Wylie (Chemistry, McMaster)

• Sprayable long-term anti-infective surface coatings

Maikel Rheinstadter (Physics, McMaster)

• Investigating the internal morphologies of hydrogels using neutron scattering, and Biochemistry (Yingfu Li, on) to further develop the applications of his novel materials.

Emily Cranston (Wood Science, U of British Columbia)

• Designing nanocomposite hydrogels containing nanocellulose for biomedical applications

Milana Trifkovic (Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary)

• Using super-resolution imaging to probe domains in injectable hydrogels

Walter Richtering (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

• Design and characterization of novel microgels

Kevin Yager (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)

• X-ray scattering for analyzing smart materials morphologies

Markus Bleuel (National Institute for Standards in Technology Centre for Neutron Research, USA)

• neutron scattering for analyzing hydrogel morphologies and phase transitions