People
A hard-working research lab based at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Montreal. Started in 2013, we gather people from very different fields to tackle outstanding scientific challenges for the greater good of mankind.
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Xavier Banquy
Principal investigator
Office: PJC 4198
Tel: 514 343 2470
xavier.banquy at umontreal.ca
2023: Full Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal
2018: Associate Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal
2013: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal
2009: Post doctoral fellow, Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara
2005: PhD Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal
1995: MSc Chemical Engineering, France
Research interests: surface forces in particular bio-adhesion and biotribology. Polymer synthesis. Drug delivery. Building stuff.
Hu Zhang
Research associate
PhD in polymer chemistry
Office: PJC 4112
Research interests: stimuli responsive polymers
Jean-Michel Rabanel
Research associate
PhD Biopharmaceutical Sciences
Office: PJC 4112
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Research interests: drug delivery systems, nanoparticles fate in vivo
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Changsheng Wang
Postdoctoral fellow
PhD Chemical engineering
Office: PJC 4112
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Research interests: Surface forces, lubrication, biopolymers
Wojtek Raj
Postdoctoral researcher - TMT Fellow - FRQS fellow
PhD in natural sciences in the discipline of chemical sciences
Office: PJC 4112
Research interests: polymer engineering wit ha tendency towards bottlebrushes
Sina Salimi
Research associate
PhD in Pharmaceutical sciences
MSc in Chem. Eng.
Office: PJC 4112
Research interests: Portable diagnostics - Cosupervised with Pre Boffito at Polytchnique
Nahid Hassanpour
PhD student, PrEEmium,TMT, FRQNT scholar MSc in materials physics
Office: PJC 4112
Research interests: surface forces, colloidal physics, microfab
co-director: Daria Boffito, Polytechnique
Quoc Thang Phan
PhD student, PrEEmium,TMT and FRQNT scholar
MSc in materials engineering
Office: PJC 4112
Research interests: polymer chemistry, drug delivery systems
co-director: Daira Boffito, Polytechnique
Justine Saber
PhD student, PrEEmium,TMT and FRQNT scholar
MSc in Biotechnology
Office: PJC 4112
Research interests: nanoparticle design, fate and biodistribution
Co-director: Daria Boffito Polytechnique
Jonathan Buiel
MD/PhD student, PrEEmium, NSERC scholar
Bcc in Biochemistry
Office PJC 4114
Research interests: nanoparticles and their fate in the human body
Dikran Mekhjian
PhD candidate, PrEEmium scholar
Bcc in Biochemistry
Office PJC 4114
Research interests: nanoparticles and their fate in the human body
Hui Guo
PhD candidate, STAIR scholar
MSc in Industrial engineering
Office PJC 4114
Research interests: superlubrication, confined fluids
Duy Anh Pham
MSc student,PrEEmium fellow
MSc in Material science
Office: PJC 4112
Research interests: nanoparticle design, fate and biodistribution
Alessia Filippini
PhD student, PrEEmium fellow, FRQS scholar
PharmD
Office: PJC 4114
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Research interests: Gene delivery systems. Co-supervised with Pr Brambilla
Fernanda Miranda
PhD candidate, STAIR fellow
MSc in Chemistry
Office: PJC 4114
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Research interests: drug delivery systems for hard to reach organs
Visiting students
-Esther Kouassi, Centrale Marseille, France
-Karolina Socha, 03/2022-06/2022 and 02/2023-05/2023, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
- Sabrina Benbabaali, 05/2022-08/2022, Sorbonne Universite, France
-Sasvat Sayee Ram, 05/2022-08/2022, SASTRA Deemed University, India (MITACS Fellow)
-Anja Lechler, 10/2020-04/2020, Regensburgh University, Germany
-Amel Cherraj, 09/2020-10/2020, Universite de Lorraine, France
-Agathe Fery, 02/2019-072019, Universite de Lorraine, France
-Ronan Chometon, 05/2019-08/2019, ESPCI, France (MITACS Fellow)
-Apolline Kopp Derouet, 04/2019-09/2019, Universite Paris Descartes, France
-Nayan Kumar Singh, 05/2018-08/2018, Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India (MITACS Fellow)
-Cyrielle Rokatavao, 03/2017-09/2017 CPE Lyon, France
- Arnould Tybergien, 02/2017-06/2017, Geneva, Switzerland
-Antone Nour, 05/2016-08/2016, Universite de Montreal, Canada
-Hua Wang, 06/2016/09/2016, Tianjin University, China (MITACS Fellow)
-Juliette Zermatti, 06/2016-08/2016, UCB Lyon I, France
-Eva Navarro, 02/2016-05/2016, Universidad de Granada, Spain
-Laurie Calland, 02/2015-08/2015, UCB Lyon I, France
-Celine Kaplo, 05/2015-08/2015, Universite de Montreal, Canada
-Jimmy Faivre, 02/2014-08/2014, CPE Lyon, France
Alumni
- Jean-Michel Rabanel, PhD 2015 (NSERC post doctoral fellow at INRS)
- Shaker Alsharif, MSc 2016, PhD at Ottawa University
-Isabelle St Jean, MSc 2015
-Nicolas Hanauer, MSc 2017
-Buddha R. Shrestna, Post Doc 2017 (Research scientist KAUST)
- Teresita Rode, MSc 2017, analyst at Citoxlab
- Jimmy Faivre, PhD 2018, R&D Project Manager at Teoxane Laboratories
-Audrey Roth, MSc 2019, Process engineer at Capsugel
-Augustine Lalloz, PhD 2019
-Frederic Murschel, Post Doc 2020
-Marziye Mirbagheri, Post Doc 2020 (scientific liaison at NPlex Bio)
-Mahdi Roohnikan, Post Doc 2019, scientist at Avro Lifesci
-Tianyi Han, PhD visiting scientist from Tsinghua University 2019-2020
-Alireza Jafarzadeh, MSc 2020
-Elise Laszlo, MSc 2020
-Endy Usen, MSc 2020
-Vahid Adibnia, Post doctoral Fellow, 2017-2020
-Alexander Cuningham, PhD 2021
-Heng Chang, PhD visiting student fron Tianjin University 2019-2021
-Sara Gonzales Bolivar, research associate 2021-2022
-Araceli Gracia Ac, research associate 2014-2022
-Marine Le Goas, Post doctoral Fellow, 2021-2023
-Pierre-Luc Latreille, PhD 2022
-Deepak Chauhan, Post doctoral Fellow, 2021-2023
-Line Seguy, Post doctoral Fellow, 2022-2024
-Jean-Marc Awogni, MSc 2024
-Jordan Robert, PhD 2024
-Sina Salimi, PhD 2024