Congratulations to Nicholas Cheng for successfully defending his Master's of Science in Biology: Characterization of virus-like particles from the BEVS platform with a special focus on gradient ultracentrifugation
BetaKit has highlighted our work (Brian Ingalls, Sara Sadr and Bahram Zargar) on their most ambitious list for our work on engineering Clostridium sporogenes to improve its utility as a cancer therapeutic. https://mostambitious.betakit.com/
Congratulations to Mehraveh Hosseinali on completing her Master's degree in Pharmacy and earning the Dean of Science Award for Spring 2026, which recognizes the exceptional creativity and excellence demonstrated in her thesis research. We are very proud of her!
Congratulations to Sara Sadr for being awarded the Chemical Engineering Medal for Proficiency in Research. This award recognizes outstanding research achievement and scholarly excellence among current graduate students in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. We are so very proud of you and your accomplishments!
Aaron Yip has put out a nice review article that has brought together our Chemical Engineering colleagues. I believe that our goal of bringing people together has caught the attention of our own University: https://uwaterloo.ca/news/engineering-research/were-stepping-out-our-silos
HeadFirst, a velocity Start-Up, is gaining a lot of attention. And it all started with a biomedical engineering capstone project supervised by Chemical Engineering professors!!!
Check out the Globe and Mail article "Could a saliva test detect concussions? A Waterloo biotech startup goes for that goal", CTV News report "Waterloo company says it can detect concussions through saliva".
Many congratulations on completing your PhD!
Apparently Twitter is no longer free - so here is a recap of what has been posted there in the last 6 months!
First, big CONGRATULATIONS to Debbie Pushparjah and Andrew Ng for both defending their MSc in Pharmacy last term! Very proud of these two individuals who produced great theses on working with novel Virus-Like Particles.
Second, Happy New Year! Can't wait to see what our group will accomplish in 2023!
It seems like the news section of this website has been a little forgotten. A lot of the news from the lab in the last six months has been shared via twitter @AppliedVirus. Over the last 6 months we have strengthened out group having had 4 PhD candidates from our group successfully complete their comprehensive exams. The group has also published a number of manuscripts, which is also great. A special shout-out to Matt Patton who joined our team for the summer and worked as a research assistant full time.