Our News
August 2021
Emilie Is Accepted to the QAQCC NSERC-CREATE Program!
Along with co-supervisor, Dr. Cory Harris, Emilie will undertake novel approaches to the non-destructive analysis of cannabinoids in live plants. More to come soon...
August 2021
Our Second Generation HydrazoCEST MRI Contrast Agent for Mapping Vitamin B6 Metabolism Is Published in Chemical Communications!
Emilie and Nick led the team in exploring the structure-activity relationship for aldehyde sensing using a hydrazinonicotinic acid core, resulting in Vitamin B6 metabolism mapping in human lung cancer xenograft models.
Published in the 2021 Emerging Investigators themed collection
July 2021
Finding Glycoproteins Quickly and Easily, Published in New Journal of Chemistry
Alexia and Tara published work applying one of Mojmir's aldehyde-reactive fluorophores to the specific detection of glycoproteins in native gels with ng-level sensitivity!
Published in the 2021 Emerging Investigators themed collection
July 2020
Included in ACS Sensors Rising Stars in Sensing Special Issue
Zach's work developing rapid, on-the-spot sensors for cannabis was included in a special virtual issue on Rising Stars in Sensing, curated by Prof. Shana O. Kelley.
May 2020
Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute Funding Received
Through the gracious support of the CCSRI, and in collaboration with Dr. Christine Addison, we have been awarded an Innovation Grant to evaluate aldehydes as imaging biomarkers of lung cancer prognosis using our radiotracer [18F]NA3BF3.
January 2020
Funding for new PET/CT received
Thanks to generous funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Province of Ontario, as well as support from the Vice-President Research Dr. Sylvain Charbonneau, we will be acquiring a new PET/CT to continue our radiotracer development program.
November 2019
Ekidna Sensing, Inc., is launched!
Based off of our cannabinoid analysis technology, we have launched Ekidna Sensing, Inc., in order to commercialize our rapid, on-the-spot cannabinoid testing. More information can be found here.
April 2019
Radiotracer for mapping aldehydic load in live subjects is published in Chem Comm
In this work we continue to build on the N-aminoanthranilic acid moiety for rapid, catalyst-free complexation of aldehydes in living systems, developing a radiotracer capable of mapping aldehydic load in living subjects using Positron Emission Tomography.
February 2019
On the inside front cover of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry New Talent Special Issue
Here we apply our fluorogenic sensor for live cell imaging of aldehydic load following the induction of electrophilic stress. On the cover, labelled cells are raining down in front of a graffitied wall.
November 2018
Our work on aldehyde fingerprinting on ChemistryViews
Recent work on the fluorogenic fingerprinting of biogenic aldehydes was reported in ChemistryViews. See the article here.
November 2018
Imaging Aldehydic Load in live cells published in special issue
Expanding upon the capability of our fluorescent imaging of aldehydes, we have published work fully characterizing the reactivity of our aldehyde-conditional fluorogenic agent, as well as demonstrated its application to the imaging of Aldehydic Load via live cell microscopy. This work was an invited contribution to a New Talent issue of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.
October 2018
Fluorescent fingerprinting of aldehydes published in special issue
Our collaborative effort with Dr. Rolland-Lagan on identifying biogenic aldehydes through curvature analysis of excitation-emission matrices was published as a Very Important Paper in a special issue on Probes in Chembiochem.
May 2018
Hosting Kelsee, Grace, and Tyra in our lab was a blast!
Thanks to support from the Verna J. Kirkness Foundation, Kelsee, Grace, and Tyra visited us from indigenous communities across Canada so we could give them a taste of the work we do in the Mol Med Lab. Listen to the story on CBC's Ottawa Morning here.
August 2017
We are CIHR funded!
A Project Scheme grant in collaboration with the Rayner (UOHI) and Pratt (uO Chemistry) groups entitled "Aldehydes, Antioxidants, and Atherosclerosis: Translational prognostic molecular imaging with novel prognostic and companion diagnostic agents" was supported by CIHR.