Congratulations to David Wulff for successfully defending his PhD thesis entitled "Development of Physically Modified Starch Microparticles for Uptake and Release of Drugs"!
Welcome to Chris Nogueira, who just started a post-doctoral in chemical engineering working on the interaction of viruses with contact lenses in collaboration with the School of Optometry!
Congratulations to Merve Marcali, who defended her PhD thesis "Non-Newtonian Droplet Production and Bioassay Applications in a Microfluidic Network". Great work!
Congratulations to Prof. Brian Dixon, who led a proposal we put in to the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, and was awarded a significant grant to study immunity against SARS-CoV-2 on campuses and surroundings in Waterloo.
Congratulations to Scott Boegel (and Marco Quattrociocchii) and David Wulff for having manuscripts accepted this week: Enhanced characterization of yeast hydrolysate combining acid digestion and 1D-1H NMR targeted profiling, and, Characterizing internal cavity modulation of corn starch microcapsules, respectively.
Welcome to Salma Jimenez, who will be starting a post-doctoral chemical engineering and working with Theraphage.
Welcome to Ko Currie and Shifa Javed who will be starting as post-doctorals in chemical engineering and working with Mediphage Bioceuticals.
Welcome to Deborah Pushparajah and Andrew Ng, who are starting their MSc in Pharmacy co-supervised with Roderick Slavcev.
While my students continue to expand our body of knowledge around viruses and vaccines - I am tackling the challenge of becoming the Interim Chair of Chemical Engineering at Waterloo (until they find a full time replacement). Wish me luck!