IN THE NEWS
September 2024 - The lab received funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund (CFI-JELF)! Check out the news release here.
September 2024 - Caitlin was awarded a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellows Catalyst Grant to pursue collaborative research with Kurt Ristroph at Purdue University on developing glucose-responsive nanoparticles! The news release can be found here.
September 2024 - Welcome to Isabelle, Lucia and Raegan as they start as masters students in the lab!
August 2024 - Congratulations to Isabelle, Lucia, Raegan and Shivam on receiving the Ontario Graduate Scholarship!
August 2024 - Caitlin was awarded the Connaught New Researcher Award to develop affinity-directed dynamic polymer materials for biomarker sensing.
May 2024 - Welcome to Arthur and Richard who are joining the lab for the summer! Arthur has been awarded an NSERC USRP and Richard received Transform HF USRP to pursue their summer research!
September 2023 - Welcome to Fateme and Shivam who are joining the lab as PhD students, and to Lucia, Alan, and Kelly who are joining the lab for their fourth year thesis!
December 2023 - Caitlin will be joining U of T BME in July 2023! The lab is recruiting!
October 2022 - Caitlin presents at the UChicago and UCSD MRSEC Rising Stars in Soft and Biological Matter Symposium
June 2022 - Caitlin was selected as a 2022 Schmidt Science Fellow!
April 2022 - Caitlin’s PhD work on a biopharmaceutical stabilization technology and ultrafast insulin drug candidate are being commercialized by Surf Bio, which just closed their $16 million Series Seed financing!
March 2022 - Caitlin presents at the PMSE Future Faculty session at ACS in San Diego
Jan 2022 - Caitlin’s PhD work on Insulin formulations was featured in C&E News’ special issue on Insulin’s Second Century!
Dec 2020 - Collaborative work with Tom Soh’s lab and Mahla Poudineh developing a Real-Time ELISA covered in Futurity, Gizmag, The Financial, MedicalXpress, Daily Geek Show, and New Atlas.
July 2020 - Caitlin’s PhD work developing an Ultra-fast insulin formulation published in Science and Translational Medicine covered by US News & World Report, National Academy of Engineering, Futurity, SciTech Daily, EurekaAlert!, Consumer Health Day, Fierce Biotech, Medical Press, Weird News, New Atlas, Drug Target Review, News Break, MedPage Today, Industry Leaders Mag, Home Health Choices, Medical Xpress, CSIRO RAMP, Tech News Lit, X-mol, The Healthy Fold, and GEN News
May 2020 - Caitlin’s PhD work on a Insulin-amylin co-formulation work for improved diabetes management is featured in News & Views article by Kim Henriksen and Morten A. Karla from Nordic Bioscience Biomarkers and Research in Denmark. It was also covered by Home Health Choices, News Medical & Life Sciences, and SOCHOB!
Lab photo shoot day (Spring 2024)
Skating at Varsity Arena
Picnicking in Burlington during the solar eclipse!
