Dr. Foldvari is an invited speaker at this year's Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT) Annual World Congress in Toronto, ON, on June 2-4, 2012.
Dr. Foldvari is a plenary speaker at the 5th European Foundation for Clinical Nanomedicine (CLINAM) Conference in Basel, Switzerland, on May 7-9, 2012.
The Foldvari Group is presenting a poster entitled "Physical and Transfection Properties of Non-Viral Gemini Surfactant-Phospholipid Nanoparticles" at the 15th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) in Philadelphia, PA, May 16-19, 2012.
Lucy Feng has joined the group as an independent-study fourth year Pharmacy student.
Christine Li has joined the group as an NSERC USRA summer student.
Lauren Levesque, a Biology student from Wilfrid Laurier University, has joined the group as an undergraduate summer student.
Chilbert Dong is giving an oral presentation entitled "Investigation of gemini nanoparticle assembly by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy" at the 11th Chemical Biophysics Symposium in Toronto, ON on April 13-15.
Congratulations to Chilbert who was recently awarded the Donald J. & Kathleen D. McDougall Graduate Scholarship for academic merit and Constanze who has been the recipient of the Wilhelm Macke Mobility Scholarship for research activities as postdoctoral fellow.
Constanze Lamprecht from Germany, who recently completed her PhD in Physics from the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, has joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow.
Andrea Cristina Pio Santos from Brazil has joined the group as a PhD student through the Department of Chemistry.
Vanessa Roberta Rodrigues da Cunha is a visiting scholar from Sao Paulo University in Brazil.
Samih Alqawlaq has a BSc in Biomedical Sciences from UW. He has joined the group as a Masters student, and he is working on non-invasive targeted gene delivery for optic nerve regeneration in glaucoma.
Marina Ivanova has a BSc in Biochemistry from UW and an MSc in Biophysics from the University of Guelph. She has joined the group as an administrative research assistant.
Mahmoud El Sabahy has a BSc in Pharmacy from the University of Assiut in Egypt, and an MSc and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Montreal. He has joined the group as postdoctoral fellow studying non-invasive gene delivery methods.
Chilbert Dong is from Oakville, Ontario, and is in his third year of studies in the Honours Science Biochemistry, co-op program.
Evi Saliaj moved to Canada from Albania and is currently completing her undergraduate degree in Biotechnology/Economics.
Damian Baboolal is an international student from Trinidad and Tobago pursuing undergraduate studies in actuarial science.