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!