Professor

School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science

•    Laboratory for Drug Delivery and Biomaterials
•    Health Sciences Campus
•     University of Waterloo
•     Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology

•     2024 Controlled Release Society (CRS) College of Fellows Award (INDUCTED)
•     2024 Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (CSPS) Fellow Award (ELECTED)
•     2023 Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) Research Leader Award
•     2022 Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) Research Leader Award
•     2022 Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Leadership in Pharmaceutical Sciences Award
•     2021 Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) Research Leader Award
•     2020 Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) Research Leader Award
•     2019 Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) Research Leader Award
•     2019 Controlled Release Society (CRS) Transdermal and Mucosal Delivery Focus Group Inaugural Chair
•     2018 University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy Outstanding Faculty Mentor in Graduate Program Award
•     2016 Leslie F. Buggey Professorship
•     2015 Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada New Investigator Research Award
•     2015 Gattefossé Canada/CSPS Award in Lipid-Based Drug Delivery
               Fumakia M and Ho EA "Nanoparticles Encapsulated with Serpin A1 and LL37 Promote Wound Healing In Vitro and Possess Antibacterial Properties"
•     2014 Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences / GlaxoSmithKline Early Career Award
•     2013 Rh Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship and Research (Interdisciplinary Category)
•     2008-2009 Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Post-Doctoral Fellowship
•     2007-2009 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Post-Doctoral Fellowship
•     2007 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award
•     2005-2007 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Industrial Post-Graduate Scholarship
•     2005-2006 Ontario Graduate (Ph.D.) Scholarship (OGS)

•   Director  Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (2022 – present)
•   Member  CIHR Pharmaceutical Sciences Committee (2020 – present)
•   Focus Group Representative  Controlled Release Society (2020 – 2021)
•   Member  Panel of Examiners Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada (2019 – present)
•   Associate Editor  Drug Delivery and Translational Research (2019 – present)
•   Panel Member  National Institutes of Health (NIH) / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (2019 – 2020)
•   Inaugural Chair  Controlled Release Society Transdermal and Mucosal Delivery Focus Group (2018 – 2020)
•   Guest Editor Special Issue  Pharmaceutics (2018 – 2020)
•   Treasurer  Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (2018 – 2022)
•   Associate Editor  Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences (2016 – present)
•   President  Canadian Chapter Controlled Release Society (CC-CRS) (2015-2017)
•   Member  Controlled Release Society Young Scientist Committee (2013-2015)

•     CIHR/MSFHR Post-Doctoral Fellow, British Columbia Cancer Research Center
•     Ph.D., University of Toronto, Pharmaceutical Sciences
•     Hons.B.Sc., University of Toronto, Toxicology