Tetrahedron Symposium Speaker Biography

Hanadi Sleiman

Hanadi Sleiman received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University under the guidance of Prof. L. McElwee-White.  Following a postdoctoral stay in the laboratory of Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn at the Universite Louis Pasteur in France, she joined the faculty of McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1998, where she is currently Associate Professor of Chemistry.   The Sleiman research group focuses on developing the supramolecular chemistry of DNA, towards applications in biology and in nanoscience.  Some of the research areas include: the use of DNA to precisely position functional components into two- and three-dimensional structures, the design of DNA nanocages to serve as biological host molecules, the stabilization of DNA structures of expanded molecularity and the creation of DNA-mimetic polymers.  Professor Sleiman was named Cottrell Scholar of the Research Corporation in 2002.  She received the Principal’s Prize (2002) and the Leo Yaffe Award (2004) at McGill, and was named William Dawson Scholar (Canada Research Chair) in 2004.