McGill University + Université de Montréal
PROJECTS 2022
Micro-Na
Dahyun (Anne) Kyung, Lan Anh Huynh, Zahra Panju, Rusvir Trana, Mark Tchinov, Lila Oualim, Emily Pettitt, Marion Vandewynckele-Bossut, Kevin Xu, Emma Sihyun Lee, Alex Butler, Taisei Fu, Sophie Cao, Mckenna Baron, Grace Shi, Yen (Ian) Chuang, Stephanie Makhlouf, Shu Yuan Zhang
Low concentrations of sodium in the blood affects nearly 20 percent of patients in U.S. hospitals. The project proposes a microneedle patch that can serve as a diagnostics device for quickly measuring sodium levels through contact with skin.
Instructors 2022
Davide Brambilla
Davide Brambilla is assistant professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Université de Montreal. He completed his PhD in pharmaceutical technologies at the University of Paris-Sud, supervised by Professor Patrick Couvreur. In 2012, he joined the laboratory of JC Leroux at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) where, after three years of post-doctoral work, he was promoted to group leader. In 2017, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Université de Montréal, where he started his research laboratory focused on micro and nanotechnology-based drug delivery tools and diagnostic devices and now teaches the development of biological drugs and pharmacokinetics. He is a junior research fellow of the Québec Research Fund, the biotherapy research Chair from the Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association and Biosimilars Canada, and current president of the Canadian chapter of the Controlled Release Society. He has co-authored 50+ publications in peer-reviewed journals and filed 2 patents.
Sam Babity
Sam Babity completed a B.Sc. in Biochemistry at Concordia University in 2017 and a Master’s in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Université de Montréal in 2019. He is currently pursuing a PhD with Prof. Davide Brambilla at the Université de Montréal, developing fluorescent probes for biological analytes and optimizing their delivery to the skin using polymeric microneedles. His research interests include the design of bioinspired drugs and diagnostic systems.