Welcome to the Sleiman research group
Associate Professor of Chemistry and William Dawson Scholar
McGill University
B.Sc. (American University of Beirut, 1985)
Ph.D. (Stanford University, 1990, Organic Chemistry)
Postdoctoral Fellow (Université Louis Pasteur, 1993-94, Supramolecular Chemistry)
Strem Award for Inorganic Chemistry, Canadian Society for Chemistry, 2009
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award, 2008
Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005
William Dawson Scholar , 2004-present (McGill's internal Canada Research Chair Tier II equivalent, renewed in 2009)
Research Corporation, Cottrell Scholar Award, 2002
McGill Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2002
Member, Canadian Institute of Advanced Research (CIFAR) Nanoelectronics Program
Member, Center for Self-Assembled Chemical
Structures (CSACS)
e-mail: hanadi.sleiman@mcgill.ca
Click
here to read an article about our research
Our research group focuses on developing the supramolecular chemistry of DNA, to address problems in both biology and nanoscience. We use this approach to design
new materials for drug delivery, diagnostic tools, antitumor therapeutics, and higher-order DNA structures for the fine organization of materials on the nanometer scale.
A second active area in our group is the synthesis of advanced materials,
using small molecules and polymers as building blocks. We are specifically interested
in designing biomimetic materials, which can undergo self-assembly using non-covalent
interactions, such as hydrogen bonding, van der Waals interactions, or weak
metal coordination.
Our projects lie at the interface between synthetic chemistry, biological chemistry
and materials science. They provide students with extensive training in small
molecule synthesis, DNA and polymer chemistry, as well as molecular recognition
and drug design.
Keywords: Supramolecular Chemistry, DNA Chemistry, Synthetic Polymers,
Biomimetic Materials, Molecular Self-Assembly
|
