Biography
Associate Professor; Associate Member, Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute; Canadian Cancer Society Emerging Scholar (PE)
MSc (Laurentian), PhD (Alberta)
Marya Ahmed acquired her Ph.D from University of Alberta, Canada in Chemical Engineering, with expertise in synthesis of polymeric vectors for gene delivery. She worked as post doctoral fellow, in the department of Chemical Engineering at California Institute of Technology (Caltech.), and gained valuable experience of working with antibody targeted gene delivery vectors for in vivo applications. She moved back to Canada in 2014 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Toronto, where she was introduced to the field of peptide synthesis, and peptide drug conjugates. Peptide conjugates were evaluated for their mitochondrial targeting and drug delivery efficacies. Her current research focuses on synthesis of peptide-polymer 'hybrids', peptide nanoparticles and study of their in vitro and in vivo drug delivery efficacies.
Recent Publications
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Bacterial-specific aggregation and killing of immunomodulatory host defense peptides
- Pharmaceuticals, 2021
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Folic acid enhances proinflammatory and antiviral molecular pathways in chicken B-lymphocytes infected with a mild infectious bursal disease virus
- British Poultry Science, 2021
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Applications of gold nanoparticles in ELISA, PCR, and immuno-PCR assays
- Analytica Chimica Acta, 2021
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Antimicrobial peptides as an alternative to relieve antimicrobial growth promoters in poultry
- British Poultry Science, 2021
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Thermoresponsive and antifouling hydrogels as a radiative energy driven water harvesting system
- Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2021
Research Classification
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Current Scholars in Chemistry
