2025
2025-06-08
Congratulations to Dr. Labouta for receiving the CRS 2025 Rising Women in Science Award! This recognizes her scientific excellence, leadership, mentorship, entrepreneurial, innovative, and managerial activities, service to institutions and scientific communities, and efforts to progress women in science.
2024
2025-04-30
Congratulations to Luis for receiving the CIHR Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship (CGS-D) for his PhD research entitled “Placental Delivery of siRNA via Targeted Lipid Nanoparticles as a Treatment for Preeclampsia”!
2023
2023-09-19
Congratulations to the Labouta Lab for receiving the 2023 J.P. Bickell Foundation Medical Grant to develop organ-on-a-chip for testing tumor therapies
2023-07-25
Congratulations to Dr. Labouta for receiving the Member of the Year Award from Controlled Release Society
2023-07-05
Congratulations to Yasmin and Luis for having their review article, entitled ‘Omics approaches for the assessment of biological responses to nanoparticles’ accepted in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews
(impact factor = 16.1)
2024-11-22
Congratulations to Dr. Hagar Labouta for being appointed to the Keenan Professorship in Medical Discovery, a hospital-university endowed professorship for a five-year term. Link is here
2023- 07-04
The Labouta Lab moved to the Keenan Research Center for Biomedical Science, Toronto
2024-08-07
Congratulations to Amr for successfully defending his MSc. thesis titled “Optimizing Lipid Nanoparticles for Fetal Gene Delivery In Vitro, Ex Vivo, and Aided by Machine Learning”!
2024-10-21
Congratulations to Amr for having his first-author paper, “Optimizing lipid nanoparticles for fetal gene delivery in vitro, ex vivo, and aided with machine learning”, published in the Journal of Controlled Release (Impact Factor = 11.5)
2024-11-22
Congratulations to Luis for receiving the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science & Technology - Merck Company Foundation Scholarship in Science & Technology
2025-05-15
Congratulations to Yasmin for receiving the Delta Kappa Gamma Society World Fellowship! The fellowship promotes professional and personal growth of women educators and excellence in education.
2025-06-05
Congratulations to first-author Yasmin and co-author Mahmoud for having their paper, “Genomic instability and shear stress influence quantum dot-induced endothelial cell responses and gene expression”, published in Materials Today Nano (Impact Factor = 8.2)!
2025-05-28
Congratulations to Sarah for receiving the 2025 Molly Towell Perinatal Research Fellowship for her research modeling fetal lung hypoplasia using organ-on-a-chip technology!