Dr. Afsaneh Lavasanifar
Dr. Afsaneh Lavasanifar is expert in pharmaceutics and drug delivery. She is a professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences division of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Alberta and has a joint appointment with the Department of Chemical and Medical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering at the same university.
She is also the Scientific Chief Officer and Vice President of Meros Pharma, a spinoff company based on the technology developed in her lab. Her research has been funded by grants from Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR), Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI); Alberta Innovates Health Solutions (AIHS) and Alberta Cancer Foundation (ACF).
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Lavasanifar Lab
Design and development of innovative delivery technologies to improve drug performance with a particular focus on
nanotechnology for improving cancer therapy.
Graduate Students
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Zoha Hajikhani
Visiting PhD Student
Research title:
Development of Novell hybrid lipo polymer systems for siRNA delivery
Former members
Visiting professor
Research Associate
Dr. Xiao-Bing Xiong
(2011)
Post Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Waleed Saeid
(2019-2020)
Dr. Anooshirvan Shayeganpour (2010)
Dr. Zengshuan Ma
(2008)
Doctoral Students
Dr. Nasim Ghasemi, PhD
(PhD 2022)
Dr. Basak Acan Clements (PhD 2008)
Dr Sams Sadat, PhD
(PhD 2021)
Dr. Vanessa Incani
(PhD 2010)
Dr. Abdullah Mahmud (PhD 2008)
Dr. Igor Paiva, PhD
(PhD 2020)
Dr. Hanan Al Lawati
(PhD 2019)
Dr. Mostafa Shahin
(PhD 2012)
Master Students
Antonio Vitale
(2020)
Zahra Ghotbi
(MSc 2010)
Alessandra Spada
(2020)
(2018)
Asma Saqr
(MSc 2017)
Summer Undergrad Students
Julian Ethier-Hopwood (2019 and 2020)
Haley Wolgien
(2015)
Visiting Student
(2018)