about Dr. Sleiman (back)

AWARDS and DISTINCTIONS

2009          Strem Award for Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry, Canadian Society for Chemistry

2009          McGill University, William Dawson Scholar Award, (Canada Research Chair CRC Tier II equiv.) – renewed for 5 years.

2008          NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement ($120,000, 2008-2011)

2005          McGill University, Faculty of Science, Leo Yaffe Award for excellence in teaching

2005          Fellow, Canadian Institute of Advanced Research, Nanoelectronics Program

2004          McGill University, William Dawson Scholar Award (CRC Tier II equiv.)

2003          McGill University, Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Assistant Professor Category)

2002          Research Corporation, Cottrell Scholar Award for excellence in research and teaching. U.S.A. and Canada-wide award in Physical Sciences

1993-94     Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, Postdoctoral Fellowship

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

2010          Manuscript published inNature Chemistry, 2010, 2, 319, was selected for Faculty of 1000 Biology, and received research highlights in Chemistry World (Royal Society for Chemistry), Nano Today (Elsevier), Quebec Science, and popular media (Rutherford radio show, Asharq Awsat newspaper and various web science media)

2010 Editor’s Choice in Science Magazine, “Stringing DNA Along”, 2010, 327 (Febr. 12 issue)

2009          Manuscript “Templated Ligand Environments for the Selective Incorporation of  Different Metals into DNA” selected for the cover page of the journal “Angewandte Chemie”

2009          Research Highlight in Nature Chemistry “Form Leading to Function” 2009, 1, 524.

2009          “News and Views” article on our work  inNature Chemistry, “Coordinating Corners”, 2009, 1, 339.

 2009         Editor’s Choice in SYNFACTS for article in  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 4182-4183

2009          Editor’s Choice in the journal “Nature Chemistry”, “Conjugated Polymers: Template Trickery”

2009           Article published in Nature Nanotechnology, 2009, 4, 349-352, generated press coverage in a number of scientific and popular media (McGill, Biofutur, NextBio, NextBigFuture, Foresight Institute, etc.)

2009           Interviews in the magazine “The Scientist” and the web magazine “Wired”

2008          Research Highlight in “Materials Today”, “Molecular Materials Using DNA” (Nov. 2008)

2008          Manuscript selected for the cover page of the journal “Angewandte Chemie”

2008          Research Highlight in the journal "Nature Materials", “Unnatural Life” (Feb. 2008)

2007          Editor’s Choice in the journal "Nature" , “Gene Boxes” (Dec. 2007)

2007          Research Highlight in the journal "ACS NANO", “Inspiration from Nature” (Dec. 2007)

2007          Editor’s Choice in the journal “Nature Nanotechnology”: “Gold Nanoparticles: DNA Builds Bridges” (Nov. 2007)

2007-08     Requests to write invited reviews of our research from 1.  Science; 2. Accounts of Chemical Research. 3.  Chemical Society Reviews. 4. Chemistry, a European Journal. 5. SynLett.6. Coord. Chem. Rev. 7. Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 8. Org. Biomol. Chem.

2006          Manuscript selected by Angewandte Chemie as "Hot Paper" and for cover page (Feb. 2006)