Zeinab Hosseinidoust, Ph.D., P. Eng.

Principal Investigator, Associate Professor

PDF: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

PhD: McGill University

BSc, MSc: Sharif University

I am a chemical and biomedical engineer and the Canada Research Chair in Bacteriophage Bioengineering. I joined the Chemical Engineering Department at McMaster in July 2016. I am a core member of The Farncombe Institute for Digestive Health and an associate member at the Michael DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, the School of Biomedical Engineering, and the Center for Protective Equipment and Material (CEPEM).

I follow a coaching style leadership and my values are honesty, open communication, transparency, and respect.

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Postdoctoral Fellow

Fereshteh Bayat, PhD

Graduate Students

Kyle Jackson

PhD candidate, CHE Vanier Scholar, NSERC-CGSM, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Robert B. Anderson Memorial Prize for Leadership and Excellence

MASc student, CHE

MASc student, BMED

PhD student, BMED

PhD student, BMED

PhD student, BMED

PhD Candidate, CHE

Project & Thesis Students

Cindy Sun

3rd yr, BHSc (mentor: Fereshteh), NSERC USRA

Aadi Patel

2nd yr, iBiomed (mentor: Katya)

Rudra Sheth

2nd yr, BHSc, (mentor: Azin)

Victoria Del Balso

3rd yr, IBEHS, (mentor: Kyle)

Shanessa Furtado

3rd yr, BDC, (mentor: Shaghayegh)

Alumni (MASc, PhD, Postdoc)

Maddy Thirugnanasampanthar

CHE PhD 2024 current role: PDF @ UCL

Mellissa Gomez

CHE PhD 2024 current role

Fereshteh Bayat, PhD

BMED PhD 2023 current role: PDF @ McMaster

Lei Tian, PhD

CHE PhD 2022 PDF, 2023 current role: PI @ Southeast University, China

Noor Abu Jarad

PDF 2024 current role: PDF @ U of T

Sherry Lamb-Marriette, PhD

Research Associate, 2022 current role: Teaching faculty, McMaster

Andrew Wong, PhD

Research Associate, 2019 current role: Research Technologist at The Hospital for Sick Children

Claudia Alonso-Cantau

BSc

Dhanyasri Maddiboina

Bsc

Sara Jahromi

BMED MASc, 2020 current role: Manufacturing Engineer @ Siemens Healthineers

Azadeh Peivandi

CHE MASc, 2018 current role: Senior analytical chemist, Toronto Research Chemicals

Sharita Ganeshan

BMED MASc, 2018 current role: PhD Candidate @ University of Western Australia

Azucena Gonzalez

ChE MASc, 2018 current role: Senior data solutions engineer @GEOTAB

Alumni (UG Thesis, Coop)

2023-2024

Reina Mazloum

Chem Bio (mentor: Maddy)

2022-2023

Bradley Charko

Chem Eng, Analyst at Yaletown VC

Michelle Feng

Electrical & iBiomed PhD student @ UPenn

Neil Lin

BHSc MD student @U of T

Jessica Wang

BHSc MSc Student @ U of T

Saina Seddighipour

iBiomed & Software

Felix Hu

MD Candidate, McMaster

2021-2022

Ahmed Talha Saif

4th year, Interdisciplinary Science (mentor: Lei)

Amy Zhang

4th year, BDC, HSc (mentor: Lei)

Arwa Hilal

PhD Student, U of T

Danielle Della Libera

MSc student, McMaster

Heidi Ho

Doctor of Dental Surgery Candidate, U of T

Konrad Grala

HSc & iBiomed, Level 5, HESE (mentor: Kyle)

Nada Ibrahim

Level 3, Biochemistry Honours (mentor: Kyle)

Samini Hewa Ranchigoda Kank

4th year, Chemical Biology (menotr: Kyle)

2020-2021

Sophia Zhang

MD student, McMaster

Leon He

Health Sci, MD candidate UOttawa

Taran Bhartt

Health Sci, MASc, MSC student U of T

Meea Fogal

PhD student, U Guelph

Serena Zhang

Masters student at John Hopkins

Nima Behravan

MD candidate, McMaster

Sami Sabbah

MD Student, University of Ottawa

Shama Pirbay

Marketing Advisor, Desjardins

Ali Ruheel

MD Candidate at McMaster

2019-2020

Eric Asgari

MD Candidate, McMaster, David Braley Scholarship

Hannah (Yun Zhi) He

MD Candidate, McMaster

Sina Ghasempour

PhD student at U of T, NSERC USRA

Genevieve Dietrich

MD candidate, U Saskatchewan, NSERC USRA

Kyle Jackson

PhD CAndidate, NSERC USRA

Winnie Situ

MD Candidate at McMaster, NSERC USRA

2016-2019

Chenchen Xu

MD candidate for University of Ottawa (NSERC USRA)

Sophie Shu-Hsuan Liu

MBChB Student at University of Bristol, NSERC USRA

Randi Mahabir

MD Candidate, Dalhousie University

Saif Syed

Data Analyst, Q4

Paul Tieu

MD/PhD, U of T

Nicole Wong

Grad student, UC Berkley

Kenji Marshall

PhD Student at Stanford University

Connor Davis

Research Scientist at Future Fields

Krish Joshi

University of Michigan, 9th grade IB student in the Halton region

Luke Yaeger (2018)

PhD student in Biochemistry, McMaster

Aileen Liu

Pharmacy resident, UHN

Grace Fu (2017)

Systems Engineering Developer at Profound Medical, NSERC USRA

Karyn Mukriri (2017)

PhDstudent, McMaster University