Chemical engineering professor Frank Gu has been awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Advanced Targeted Delivery Systems. His new chair recognizes his research that is changing medical treatment and diagnosis on a nano-scale, by bringing biology and engineering together.
Gu, who heads the Laboratory of Advanced Targeted Delivery Systems, develops tiny machines in his nanotechnology lab that may someday move through the bloodstream of a cancer patient to attack a tumour. He also studies how nanoparticles might rid of drinking water of contaminants missed by conventional water treatment, or lead to more effective eye drops. Gu was one of four University of Waterloo professors to be honoured with Canada Research Chairs on October 12. [article] [news release]
