On March 15, 2023, NMIN’s Founding Scientific Director Dr. Pieter Cullis was announced as a recipient of a 2023 Killam Prize. “The achievements and aspirations of the 2023 Killam Laureates have a significant impact on our society,” Maydianne Andrade, Chair, National Killam Selection Committee, was quoted as saying in the… Read More »Pieter Cullis wins 2023 Killam Prize
The NanoMedicines Innovation Network (NMIN) is pleased to announce that NMIN HQP Dr. Nashmia Zia has won the 2023 PRiME-Unity Health Toronto Clinical Catalyst award. Dr. Zia is a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and NMIN’s Theme 3 (Diagnostics) Research Accelerator. The award supports a Postdoctoral or Clinical Fellow… Read More »NMIN HQP Dr. Nashmia Zia wins 2023 PRiME-Unity Health Toronto Clinical Catalyst award
The NanoMedicines Innovation Network (NMIN) is pleased to announce eight new recipients of NMIN Advanced Training Certification (ATC). NMIN’s Advanced Training Certification, or ATC, recognizes an individual’s engagement in diverse capacity-building activities offered by NMIN, its partners, and other recognized organizations, where the learning involved goes “above and beyond” the… Read More »Eight more NMIN Advanced Training Certification (ATC) recipients announced
Back, L to R: Josh Friesen, Isabelle Largillière, Parnian Mehinrad, Daniel Berard, Tyler Thomson. Front, L to R: Nashmia Zia, Amélie Baron, Samantha McWhirter, Alexandra Birkenshaw, Abishek Wadhwa, Yulin Mo. Missing: Michael Valic. NMIN is proud to acknowledge the NMIN trainees who won top prizes at the Poster Competition of… Read More »2022 Poster Competition Winners Announced
https://youtu.be/bwn8SYpkmv0 At a gala celebration in Toronto on 29 September 2022, NMIN Founding Director Dr. Pieter Cullis was announced as the winner of the 2022 Bloom Burton Award. “We are honoured to recognize Pieter Cullis with the award,” said Jolyon Burton, President of Bloom Burton & Co., a firm dedicated… Read More »Pieter Cullis wins 2022 Bloom Burton Award
L to R: Yulin Mo, Dr. Miffy Cheng and Jerry Leung. NMIN is extremely proud to acknowledge the NMIN trainees who won all three of the Poster Awards granted at Liposome Research Days (LRD) 2022. Yulin Mo (University of Toronto), Dr. Miffy Cheng and Jerry Leung (both at The University… Read More »NMIN trainees win all three poster awards at LRD 2022
The NanoMedicines Innovation Network (NMIN) is pleased to announce the 15 recipients of the its 2022 Masters- and Doctoral-level Graduate Awards. Recipients hail from seven universities in five provinces. The goal of NMIN Graduate Awards is to enable exceptional students to pursue nanomedicine academic research training with Canadian experts. Doctoral… Read More »Meet the winners of NMIN’s 2022 Graduate Awards
Dr. Pieter Cullis continues to accumulate accolades for his life’s work developing liposomal-based technologies as the basis for novel therapeutic approaches to diagnosing, treating, and curing disease. An additional recognition, “for his scientific entrepreneurialism and advancement of life sciences research,” is coming in the form of the Global Impact Award… Read More »Pieter Cullis to receive Global Impact Award from Life Sciences BC
The start-up company SeraGene, spun out of NMIN and co-founded by NMIN research co-leader Dr. Christian Kastrup (UBC), NMIN HQP Amy Wong-Strilchuk, and NMIN’s Founding Scientific Director, Dr. Pieter Cullis, has received a 2022 “Amgen Golden Ticket” at the UBC-based SBME Innovates incubation hub. UBC’s School of Biomedical Engineering (SBME)… Read More »NMIN start-up SeraGene wins Amgen-sponsored incubation support
For their contributions to the development of an mRNA-based COVID vaccine, NMIN’s Founding Scientific Director, Dr. Pieter Cullis (UBC), together with his colleagues Drs Katalin Karikó (University of Szeged) and Drew Weissman (University of Pennsylvania), have been jointly awarded the 2022 Tang Prize in in Biopharmaceutical Science. The prize recognizes… Read More »Dr. Pieter Cullis & colleagues awarded 2022 Tang Prize