Biomaterials

Dr. Marya Ahmed, MSc, PhD

Appointments: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Faculty of Sustainable Design and Engineering; BHCRI Assistant Scientific Director, PEI Affiliations: University of Prince Edward Island Research Interests: Biomaterials, Drug delivery, immunotherapy, drug resistant carcinoma, polymer peptide hybrids, nanoparticles, proteomics The use of combination drugs to overcome aggressive, metastatic and resistant cancerous anomalies is a focus of … Read more

Dr. Mark Joseph Filiaggi, PhD

Appointments: Professor, Department of Applied Oral Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry; Associate Dean Research & Graduate Studies, Faculty of Dentistry Cross-Appointments: School of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Radiology Dalhousie University Research Interests: Biomaterials, biomedical devices, drug delivery Novel and Potentially Multifunctional Chemotherapeutic Delivery Vehicles Our research program is focused on the development of novel biomaterials and biomedical … Read more

Dr. Brendan M. Leung, PhD

Appointments: Department of Applied Oral Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry (primary), School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculties of Medicine and Engineering (cross appointment) Affiliations: Dalhousie University Research Interests: Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, Organ-on-a-chip, Drug screening platforms, Microbe-mammalian models I lead a multidisciplinary research team specializing in the development of assays, culture platforms and biomedical devices to understand cell-cell … Read more