The annual Waterloo Pharmacy Graduate Research Day provides a platform for students to showcase innovative research, to receive valuable feedback from their peers and professors and to connect and collaborate.
This event is instrumental in shaping the future careers of graduate students and honing their skills as effective science communicators.
The day included a keynote, student oral presentations and a research poster session.
Pharmacy Research Day serves as a vital forum for graduate scholars, fostering the exchange of scholarly endeavors, enhancing public speaking skills, cultivating professional networks and igniting inspiration through the collective brilliance of peers.
This year, keynote speaker Dr. Anjana Sengar delivered an engaging presentation on the Ethical Considerations in AI Research: Balancing Healthcare Innovation and Risk. Dr. Sengar spoke on ethical issues in adopting AI into healthcare practices, deployment failures and governance concerns while outlining how AI can benefit healthcare and enhance patient care.
Keynote speaker Dr. Anjana Sengar presenting at Waterloo Pharmacy Graduate Research Day.
Poster presentations were hosted midday where graduate students discussed their work with fellow students and faculty.
Graduate students showcasing their research at Waterloo Pharmacy Graduate Research Day.
This year’s oral presentations by graduate students included:
- Bincy Baby: User Experience with Medication Adherence Technology: Determining Usability by Capabilities
- Nicholas Cheng: A Universal Coronavirus Vaccine: Is it possible?
- Antoine Hakim: Development of cationic mRNA-gemini lipid nanoparticles for neuroprotective treatment of the retina in glaucoma
- Mehraveh Hosseinali: Characterization and optimization of a recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus (rAAV) production system in E. coli
- Jiayang Li: Construction and Characterization of a Miniphagemid-mediated Cancer Therapy Delivering an Anti-angiogenic DNA-encoded Virus-like Particle
- Mira Maximos: Delabeling Penicillin Allergies in Adults: Examining the Effectiveness of Using Oral Challenge in Low-Risk Patients with a Spotlight on Sex and Gender in Published Literature
- SooMin Park: Development of digital decision aids used by older adults for medication adherence: A Scoping review
- Mohammad Faisal Rauf: Comparing Post-operative Inpatient Opioid Use with Discharge Opioid Prescribing Patterns in Adult Patients Undergoing Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty- A Retrospective Observational Study
- Shirley Wang: Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modelling of Sodium Benzoate in the Pediatric Population
Waterloo Pharmacy graduate students and professors at Waterloo Pharmacy Graduate Research Day.
The PhGA team is incredibly grateful for the support of the School, the staff who worked behind the scenes and all those who attended and presented.