Dr. Martin Mkandawire, Prof. Dr. habil.

Appointments: Industrial Research Chair for Mine Water and Remediation Management Affiliations: Vershuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment, Cape Breton University Research Interests: Biophotonics, Spectrochemistry, Nanomedicine, Nano-biosensors, and Photocatalyst Development of multifunctional material/device platform for cancer diagnostics and treatment based on nanotechnology. For example, targeting nanoparticles to cancerous tissue, cells, and cell organelles; … Read more

Dr. Shine (Xu) Zhang

Appointments: Research Chair in Applied Nanotechnology in Verschuren Centre, and Cross Appointment to Department of Chemistry Affiliations: Cape Breton University Research Interests: Nanomedicine, Nanozymes, Nano-biosensors, and photocatalyst Nanomaterials based theranostics Development of multifunctional material/device platform for cancer diagnostics and treatment based on nanotechnology. For example, targeting cancerous tissue with DNA aptamer technology, developing novel drug … Read more