PEOPLE

Pat Forgione
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Dipanjan Bhattacharyya
Postdoctoral Fellowship student

Dipanjan received his PhD from IIT Guwahati (India) and is currently pursuing his postdoctoral research at Forgione lab. He loves medicinal chemistry and is currently working on developing synthetic methodology for accessing 1, 3-dienes under solvent free mechanochemical conditions hoping to translate the work to synthesis of biologically relevant molecules. In his spare time he loves watching cricket and enjoys cooking.

Helena Braga
MSc student

Helena received her BSc in Pharmacy and Biochemistry from University of São Paulo (Brazil), and later received her first Masters in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the same institution. Her research project focuses on the planning and development of new agonists of the enzyme GPR-68. In her free time, she likes to watch sports with a cold beverage and hiking.

Tiantian Chen
Postdoctoral Fellowship student

Keegan McKibbon
PhD student

Venelin Petkov
MSc student

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Venelin came to Canada at nine years old. He later got his BSc in Biochemistry at Concordia University. His graduate research is on the optoelectronic properties of doped fixed-length oligothiophenes. Personal hobbies include building and working with computers and learning about other types of science such as physics and engineering.

Sevag Pilavdjian
MSc student

Upon completing his BSc in Honours Chemistry at Concordia University, Sevag pursued his graduate studies in the Forgione Research Group. His research entails the design and synthesis of thiazole-based inhibitors for liver cancer treatment via C-H Activation strategies. In his free time, Sevag enjoys tutoring, playing video games (trying to be the best Pokémon player in Canada) as well as cooking and baking.

Phil Prevost
MSc student

Phil received his BSc from Simon Fraser University in Chemistry. His primary research focus is in medicinal chemistry for the development of potential broad-spectrum antibiotic compounds, with an emphasis on the synthesis of aliphatic amines and various heterocyclic amine groups. Ironically, he cannot properly read pH strips due to colour blindness.

Emma Shaver
MSc student

Emma completed her BSc at the University of Victoria. Currently, her primary research focus is in medicinal chemistry where she is working on developing potential chemotherapeutics. Nobody is more of a 2000s girl pop fan than her. 

Sarah Taylor
MSc student