Welcome Tej and Bonnie, who are joining us as summer research students, and Ben, who will be working with EKG as a CHM499 student.
Congratulations to Ian who has been awarded 2025-26 Queen Elizabeth II/Martin Moskovits Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology!
Congratulations to Zheyuan who has been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship!
Warm Congratulations to Dianoosh and Zicor as well as Faeze, Ilya, Sina with a paper on spheroid-based skin-on-a-chip platform for the evaluation of the toxicity of small molecules and nanoparticles accepted by Lab on a Chip!
Congratulations to Turar and Liza who have received the Department of Chemistry Teaching Assistant Excellence Award for the 2024-25 academic year!
Big congrats to Baichuan and all co-authors with a great paper on confinement-induced chirality in phase-separated achiral polymer solutions accepted by Science Advances!
Congratulations to Sina who has been awarded The Colton Medal for Research Excellence!
Congratulations to Liza who is a recipient of the Edwin Walter Warren Graduate Student Award!
Congrats to Ilya, Sina, and Faeze with a paper on machine learning-assisted exploration of multidrug-drug administration regimens for organoid arrays accepted by Science Advances!
Congratulations to Zicor, Faeze, and Dianoosh with a paper on multilayered skin spheroids enabling screening of biologically active ingredients in Science Advances!
Our Work on self-driving nanochemistry lab for plasmonic nanoparticle synthesis was highlighted by Faculty of Arts and Science News!
Congrats to Yingshan, Ian, Yuhang, and Baichuan with a paper on Hierarchically Structured Aerogel for Water Havesting accepted by Matter!
Congrats to Taylor with a paper on Self-driving Lab for the Photochemical Synthesis of Plasmonic Nanoparticles with Targeted Structural and Optical Properties accepted by Nature Communications!
Warm congratulations to Yuhang with the Rein Otson Memorial Graduate Scholarship!
Congratulations to Dianoosh who has just passed with honours the qualification exam!
Congratulations to Yingshan, Zicor, and Sofia with a paper on Phytoglycogen Nanolubricants with Extended Retention Time in Joints accepted in Advanced Functional Materials!
Huge congratulations to Dr. Zhengkun (Zicor) Chen with a successful defense of his PhD thesis!
Congratulations to Baichuan who passed his comprehensive exam with honours!
Congratulations go to Dr. Yingshan Ma with an outstanding defense of her PhD thesis. Well done, Dr. Ma!
Congratulations to Yuhang and Yingshan with a paper on Colloidal Hydrogel with Staged Sequestration and Release Dynamics accepted in ACS Nano!
Congratulations to Sina, Ilya, and Fatemeh with a paper on Microfluidic Platform for Generating and Releasing Patient-Derived Cancer Organoids accepted in Advanced Materials!
Congratulations to Zheyuan who has been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship!
Congratulations to Taylor with a Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology!
Warm congratulations go to Zicor who has been awarded the Novo Nordisk – Oxford Fellowship for his three-year postdoctoral position!
Congratulations to Turar with a 2023/24 Department of Chemistry Teaching Aissitant Excelence Award!
Weclome Irina as new postdoc fellow and Yulia as new PhD student to EKG!
Congratulations to Xiao who has become a father! Now he has a baby girl!
Welcome new postdoc Jue joining EKG!
Congratulations to Yuhang who has been awarded with the Edward Jarvis Tyrrell Fellowship!
Congratulations to Junjie with a 2024 Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellowship!
Congratulations to Yingshan and Sofia with a Review "From Nature-Sourced Polysaccharide Particles to Advanced Functional Materials" accepted by Advanced Materials!
Our paper on Microfluidic Platform for Evaluating the Internalization of Liposome Drug Carriers in Tumor Spheroids has been accepted by ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces!
Welcome visiting undergrad student Zhibo Yang from Jilin University to EKG!
We are hiring: a postdoctoral position for the organ-on-a-chip project.
Huge congratulations to Dr. Sina Kheiri with an outstanding defense of his PhD thesis!
Our paper entitled Nanocolloidal Hydrogel Mimics the Structure and Nonlinear Mechanical Properties of Biological Fibrous Networks has been accepted by Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.!
Big congratulations to Ben who has submitted his MSc thesis and graduated!
Prof. Kumacheva was awarded the Henry Marshall Tory Medal by the Royal Society of Canada!
Liza, Dianoosh, Zheyuan, and Ian joined EKG as grad students. Welcome!
Warm welcome to Dr. Fatemeh Ahmadi, Dr. Xiao He, and Dr. Junjie Yin who have joined EKG as postdoctoral fellows.
Prof. Kumacheva was awarded the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry!
Congrats to Zicor, Ben, Faeze and Yingshan with a paper "Intrafibrillar Crosslinking Enables Decoupling of Mechanical Properties and Structure of a Composite Fibrous Hydrogel" accepted by Advanced Materials!
Congrats to Yuhang, Shangyu, and Yingshan with a paper on Nanogels Designed for Cell-Free Nucleic Acid Sequestration accepted by Nanoscale!
Taylor was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship. Big congratulations!
Congrats to Yingshan who has received an Ontario Graduate Scholarship!
Congrats to Sofia and Albert with a paper on Colloidal Clusters and Networks Formed by Oppositely Charged Nanoparticles accepted by ACS Nano!
Our paper on spheroid-on-a-chip with rocker platform has been accepted by Biotechnology Journal. Congrats to Sina, Zicor, Ilya, and Faeze!
Congrats to Sofia and Albert with a review paper on nanocolloidal hydrogels accepted by Chem. Soc. Rev. (IF = 60.6)!
Prof. Kumacheva participated as an international jury at the 25th anniversary of the L'Oreal-UNESCO Prize for Women in Science in Paris.
Our paper on Self-Driving Labs in Chemical and Materials Sciences is selected as Cover page for Nature Synthesis.
Our paper on Dual-function Hydrogel Dressing for Treatment of Infected Wounds has been accepted by ACS Applied Bio Materials.
Congratulations to Shangyu Li with the CSC Silver Medal! Well-deserved Shangyu!
Congratulations to Sina Kheiri with the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship!
Congratulations to Ilya Yakavets with the 2022-23 PRiME-UHN Clinical Catalyst Award!
Our paper on Stimulus-Responsive Transport Properties of Nanocolloidal Hydrogels is selected as Cover page for Biomacromolecules.
Congratulations to Yuhang Huang with the Rein Otson Memorial Graduate Fellowship!
Congratulations to Sina Kheiri with the Barbara and Frank Milligan Graduate Fellowship!
Congrats to Yuhang, Sofia, and Shangyu with an Article "Stimulus-Responsive Transport Properties of Nanocolloidal Hydrogels" accepted by Biomacromolecules!
Our paper entitled The Rise of Self-Driving Labs in Chemical and Materials Sciences has been accepeted in Nature Synthesis!
Our paper on printing of Structurally Anisotropic hydrogel for guided cell alignment is accepted by Gels! Congrats to all co-authors!
Congratulations to Elisabeth Prince, our former postdoc, who has accepted an Asistant Professor position in Chemical Engineering in the University of Waterloo.
Welcome to undergrad students Shangyu and Matthew joining our group!
Congratulations Yuhang Huang with excellent comprehensive exam!
Eugenia Kumacheva was awarded a certificate of gesture at ACS Fall National Meeting 2022 GSSPC event
Congrats to Tianyi (Taylor) Wu with Ontario Graduate Scholarship!
Congratulations Yingshan Ma and Zhengkun (Zicor) Chen with excellent comprehensive exam!
Congrats to Sina Kheiri with Ontario Graduate Scholarship!
Our collaborative work with Kun Liu (Jilin University) on oxidative elimination and reductive addition of polymer ligands to metal nanoparticles is reported in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. !
Eugenia Kumacheva was the member of the international jury at L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards.
Congratulations to Vahid Adibnia, our former postdoc, who has accepted an Asistant Professor position in Biomedical Engineering in Dalhousie University.
Welcome to Turar joining our group as a graduate student!
Congratulations to Ellie Prince became a recipient of the 2022 Governor General Medal and a 2022 Chair’s Doctoral Medal!
Our paper “Fibrous Hydrogels under Biaxial Confinement. ” is accepted by Nature Communications!
Our review paper “A 3D Printing Approach to Intelligent Food Packaging” is accepted by Trends in Food Science!
Welcome to Faeze and Paula joining our the group!
Congrats to Sina and Zicor with a Feature Article "Trends in Droplet Microfluidics: from Droplet Generation to Biomedical Applications" accepted by Langmuir!
Our paper “Polymer-Tethered Nanoparticles: from Surface Engineering to Directional Self-assembly” is accepted by Acc. Chem. Res.!
Our paper on nanostructured temperature indicator for cold chain logistics is accepted by ACS Nano! Congrats to Sina, Ilya and Mahshid!
Our paper on biomimetic hydrogel for initiation and growth of breast tumor organoids is accepted by Nat. Commun.! Congrats to Elie!
Our paper on stimulus-responsive nanoconjugates derived from phytoglycogen nanoparticles is accepted by Biomacromolecules. Congrats to Yingshan and Vahid!
Our paper on composite microgels for imaging-monitored tracking of the delivery of VEGF is accepted by Biomacromolecules. Congratulations to Sama!
Congratulations to Sina with a paper on big data analysis of flow and drug transport in microfluidic a spheroid-on-a-chip system, accepted for publication in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology!
Our paper on structurally anisotropic hydrogels for tissue engineering was accepted in Trends in Chemistry. Congrats to Nancy and Sina!
Yuhang and Baichuan joined EKG as PhD students. Welcome!
Big congratulations to Dr. Nancy Khuu with an excellent defense of PhD!
Congrats to Dr. Huachen Tao with a successful defense of PhD!