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Dr. Anil Maharaj recently defended and has received the W.B. Pearson Medal from the Faculty of Science for recognition of creative research as presented in his Ph.D. thesis.

Dr. Maharaj was also awarded, based on the strength of his academic accomplishments, an “Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies” honour from the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Maharaj is currently a postdoctoral fellow at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN.

Alanna McEneny-King, a PhD student in Dr. Edginton's lab, has received a three-year CIHR Doctoral Award. She was ranked 3rd out of 479 applicants in her pool across Canada. This award is testament to the tenacity, intellect and creativity she has demonstrated during the past 1.5 years of her PhD. The Edginton lab congratulates Alanna on all of her accomplishments!

Dr. Edginton has joined the Board of Directors of the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB) for a two year term starting January 2017. The Board of Directors is key to CBB's growth and the development of innovative research and research opportunities within industry and healthcare institutions both internationally and locally. 

Anil Maharaj successfully completed his PhD thesis defense on February 28, 2017. The thesis was entitled:

Parameterization of in silico Oral Disposition Models: Focus on Pediatrics

CONGRATULATIONS ANIL!

Anil is now moving on to a postdoctoral fellowship at St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis in the lab of Dr. Clinton Stewart.

MSc student Paul Malik (started September 2016) with former postdoctoral fellow Dr. Colin Phipps (applied mathematician; now at Abbvie) and visiting scientist, Dr. Abdullah Hamadeh (applied mathematician) recently published a manuscript on methods for understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of antibody PK interindividual variability.

Malik PR, Hamadeh A, Phipps C, Edginton AN. 2017. Population PBPK modelling of trastuzumab: a framework for quantifying and predicting interindividual variability. Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics. In press.

PhD candidate, Alanna McEneny-King, MSc, speaks at the 61st Annual meeting of the Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis Research meeting in Basel, Switzerland, Feb 15-18, 2017. Her talk titled: Individual pharmacokinetic assessment - the WAPPS-Hemo Project will highlight the work that the Edginton lab is doing in conjunction with Alfonso Iorio MD (PI) at McMaster University on the Web-Accessible Population Pharmacokinetics Service - Hemophilia (https://www.wapps-hemo.org/).

Abdullah Hamadeh is a visiting researcher in applied mathematics. Dr. Hamadeh has a PhD in Control Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, and recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He research interests include:

On October 21, 2016 Paul Malik graduated from the School of Pharmacy Doctor of Pharmacy program with a PharmD, the entry-to-practice degree for pharmacists in Ontario.

On October 21, 2016, Elliot Offman convocated with a PhD from the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy.

Dr. Offman completed his PhD part-time under Dr. Andrea Edginton’s supervision. His thesis is entitled: “In-Silico Methods for De-Risking the Clinical Development of Subcutaneously Administered Therapeutic Macromolecules.”

Congratulations, Elliot!

Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

A Postdoctoral Research Fellow position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Andrea Edginton in the School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo. Our laboratory is active in developing model-based methods for application to clinical pharmacology. Our expertise is in physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling of small molecules and biologics for the purposes of extrapolation. We are also active in collaborative ventures with academic and industry partners.