As part of our outreach program to other biomaterials and bioengineering researchers, Dr. Griffith participated in a very early morning online lecture to our friends, Dr. Muhammad Yar and colleagues, in Lahore, Pakistan. This was the occasion of the 2024 International Symposium on Biomedical Materials, from 4-5 March.
Griffith Lab at the SCN Bioengineering Workshop 2024
The Griffith Lab recently participated in the Canadian Stem Cell Network (SCN) Bioengineering Workshop which was conducted during Feb 20th-22nd, 2024 at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. SCN is Canada’s leading not-for-profit Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Network. One of its aims is to train the nation’s next-generation scientists. SCN’s “Bioengineering for Stem Cell Research Workshop” was a 3 day in-person workshop focused on 3D Printing and Microfluidics. Dr. May Griffith was one of the speakers’ giving talks during the workshop. Mona Moradi, our Master’s student, who attended the workshop said she had a great learning experience.
Dr. May Griffith delivering a great lecture at the Workshop!
Deep Learning Mode!
Happy Birthday!
Nothing like a very rich chocolate brownie cake to brighten our birthday girl’s day! Happy Birthday, Mozghan!
End of the year holiday party!
After a tough year with COVID-19, and the 5th wave of COVID Omicron virus looming that cancelled the graduate student party and our trip to a restaurant, catering in food for a safe and fun party was just the thing we needed. We said goodbye to Federica Magrelli from Prof. Graziella Pellegrini’s lab in Italy after a 3-month stay in Montreal. We welcomed our new Ph.D. student, Neethi Thathapudi, who was finally able to enter Canada to start her lab work.
Pumpkin contest HMR student comittee
On the last Halloween, a few students from our lab participated in the pumpkin carving contest hosted by the HMR student comittee.
Federica Magrelli’s, “good and evil” pumpkin and Natalia Callai da Silva’s “when experiments don’t go as planned” pumpkin won the 1st and 2nd places, respectively! Congrats, girls!
2020 and 2021 in a glance
Since our move to the new research building, Pavillon Claudine D’Amours, our lab has welcomed new trainees and collaborators. We also said good-bye to our students who have graduated, post-doctoral fellows and technical staff who have completed their contracts, and summer and exchange students whom we were fortunate enough to interact with.
The current members of our team are the post-doctoral fellows Bijay K. Poudel, Kamal Malhotra, Naoufal Akla; Université de Montréal Doctorate students Natalia Callai da Silva, Mostafa Zamani Roudbaraki and Neethi Thathapudi. Co-supervised trainees include Hamid Goodarzi, Karine Roversi, and Katiane Roversi.
Throughout the COVID pandemic, our team respected the implemented protocols while continuing to focus on the ongoing projects. We are still awaiting several team members to join us as soon as they are able to enter Canada. In the meantime, we are fortunate that Natalia Callai da Silva has taken the initiative to update our lab web page. Thanks, Natalia.
Welcome to Research Exchange Student from Italy!
In October, we welcomed Federica Maria Magrelli, a PhD student from the laboratory of Professor Graziella Pellegrini at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia. Federica will work along Hamid Goodarzi, Natalia Callai da Silva and Bijay Poudel to study cell-biomaterials interactions on various biomimetic materials-based scaffolds.
Catching up on our web-posts since the COVID-19 Pandemic...
Former post-doctoral fellow, Chris McTiernan, and current PhD student, Fiona Simpson, spoke at a webinar series organized by the US National Eye Institute’s Office of Regenerative Medicine on their 2020 Sciences Advances paper (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba2187).
Congratulations Dr. Edin!
Elle Edin successfully defended her PhD on December 17, 2018 at Uppsala University in Sweden. Elle was co-supervised by Dr. Jöns Hilborn at Uppsala University and by Dr. Griffith at UdeM. Her thesis is entitled “Composite Regenerative Scaffolds” and covers the regeneration of diverse tissues, focusing on re-enervation.
Fiona Simpson Awarded FROUM Master's Scholarship
The University of Montréal's Annual Ophthalmology Research Day took place on June 7, 2018 at CHU St. Justine. Fiona Simpson, a Master's student in the Griffith Lab, was presented with the Master's Scholarship from the "Fonds de Recherche d'Ophtalmologie de l'Université de Montréal". She gave a talk on her research entitled, "Collagen-mimetic-peptide-phosphorylcholine hydrogels in the treatment of corneal alkali burns".