Hanadi Sleiman
Professor
- DNA nanotechnology
- Nucleic acid delivery
- Biomaterials
- Nanomedicine
Hanadi Sleiman is a Professor of Chemistry and Canada Research Chair in DNA Nanoscience at Â鶹AV. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, and was a CNRS postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn’s laboratory at the Université Louis Pasteur. She joined the faculty at Â鶹AV in 1999, where her research group focuses on using the molecule DNA as a template to assemble nanostructured materials.
Sleiman is a Fellow of the Royal Society (London) and of the Royal Society of Canada, Associate Editor of J. Am. Chem. Soc., and Editorial Advisory Board member of J. Org. Chem., ChemBioChem, and Trends in Chem. Among her recent research recognitions are the Canadian Society of Chemistry E. W. R. Steacie Award (2024), Society of Chemical Industry Kalev Pugi award (2024), NSERC Polanyi Award (2021), Cottrell STAR Award (2021), Albus Award (Grifols, 2018), Killam Research Fellowship (2018), Canadian Society of Chemistry R. U. Lemieux Award (2018), Netherlands Scholar Award in Supramolecular Chemistry (2018), Izatt-Christensen Award in Supramolecular Chemistry (2016).
Sleiman received the Â鶹AV Principal’s Prize (2002) and the Leo Yaffe Award (2005) for Excellence in Teaching.
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