News & Updates

Amir successfully defended his MSc thesis, our first defense at UofT!

Congratulations to our grad students on new awards: Suman - VSRP, Mohammed - QEII-GSST and VSRP renewal, and Manu - NSERC CGRS-M!

Excited to share our recent publication detailing the first eyedrop formulation of a ferrochelatase inhibitor, and a collaborative study on the effect of anti-VEGF injections on the developing eye

We're pleased to welcome exchange students Istuki Ameno (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) and Emna Lafifi (Université Paris Cité, France) to the lab this month!

As the summer starts, we welcome new postdoc Dr. Ting Wang from Indiana University via the FDA, Amgen Scholar Gabrielle Pegado from the University of Victoria, and USRP student Tvara Parikh from McMaster University. We also congratulate Suman Birdee on successfully transferring from the MSc to the PhD program!

Our comprehensive review of ocular emulsion drug formulations was selected for the cover of Pharmaceutics !

We're pleased to welcome new PhD students Yue Dai and Manu Kattimani, new MD/MEng student Eleen Yang, and welcome back undergraduate...

Congratulations to our grad students on a great week for awards: Vision Science Research Program awards for Amir Afsharpour and Mohammed...

Gabby Hartman successfully defended her PhD

Congratulations to Gabby, Anbu, and great collaborators for exciting publications defining the role of Ref-1 in neovascular eye diseases:...

The lab is honoured to receive renewal funding for the Joe M. and Eula C. Lawrence Research Project from the Retina Research Foundation

Tim is named a Class of 2025 Silver Fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

Tim discusses eye health with Anne-Marie Mediwake on CTV Your Morning: https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/c3012676-increase-of-nearsightedness-...

The lab receives a John R. Evans Leaders Fund grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation

Suman is profiled by our Faculty's news team: https://www.pharmacy.utoronto.ca/news-announcements/how-migraines-led-pharmsci-student-purs...

With the new school year, we're pleased to welcome PhD student Mohammed Chhipa, MSc students Suman Birdee and Amir Afsharpour, Pharm Chem...

What better place to take new lab members than Niagara Falls?

We welcome Pharmacy Undergraduate Summer Research Program Students Suman Birdee (not pictured) and Luisa Gerhard, and University of...

Flying into Seattle for the ARVO Annual Meeting.

After relocating from Indiana University School of Medicine, we are excited to have our lab ready to go at the Leslie Dan Faculty of...