PhD Student (adam.tam@mail.utoronto.ca)

Adam was born and raised in Toronto. He completed his B.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Bioengineering at the University of Toronto. In his thesis project under the supervision of Dr. Alison McGuigan, he worked on improving the optical prope...

MSc student (ah.ibrahim@utoronto.ca)

Ahmed did his B.Sc. at McMaster University, where he was involved in projects including organic photocatalyst optimization, analysis of organic pollutant fate in the environment, and formulation of pharmaceutical products for pre-clinical trials. Since joini...

PhD student (angus.chiang@utoronto.ca)

Angus was born and raised in the city of Richmond Hill, ON. He completed his B.Sc. in Biochemistry at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Dr. John Honek, where he worked on the combinatorial synthesis of ADAMTS-4/5 inhibitors targeting the...

PhD Student (yoojeong.chun@mail.utoronto.ca)

Diane was born and raised in Korea until she was 10 years old when she immigrated to Vancouver, BC. She completed her B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of British Columbia. As a PhD student in the Nitz lab, Diane is working with ba...

PhD Student (hunter.clark@mail.utoronto.ca)

Hunter grew up in Ottawa and did his Bachelors of Science in Chemistry at Carleton University. His 4th year honours thesis was in organic chemistry under Jeff Manthorpe studying the kinetics of diazomethane generation and alkylation of various diazald...

PhD Student (pat.stewart@mail.utoronto.ca)

Patricia was born in Toronto, but grew up in Orangeville, Ontario. She moved back to Toronto to start her B.Sc. in Biological Chemistry at UofT and graduated in 2024. She joined the Nitz lab as a third-year undergraduate student and stayed in the lab f...

PhD student (wytimothy.ma@mail.utoronto.ca)

Tim was born and raised in Hong Kong and spent his early childhood in North York before returning to Toronto after 20 years. He completed his B.Sc. in Chemistry at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and earned his M.Sc. in Chemistry fr...

PhD Student (una.lim@mail.utoronto.ca)
Una grew up in the Niagara Region and completed her B.Sc. in Biochemistry at Brock University. Her undergraduate thesis project was under the supervision of Dr. Tony Yan and revolved around synthesizing an alternative for PEG compatible in bioconjugation re...

MSc student (valeria.villalba@mail.utoronto.ca)

Valeria was born in Toronto but grew up all around the GTA. She completed her BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Sciences with a minor in Chemistry next door at TMU. Her fourth year thesis with Dr. Koivisto worked towards the development of EdU compatible f...