Group Leader
Prof. Charles Walsby
Charles Walsby obtained his B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D. in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His Ph.D. work was performed under the supervision of Dr. Rod Claridge and involved EPR studies of inorganic crystal systems. In 1999 he took a post-doctoral position with Prof. Brian Hoffman at Northwestern University where he studied metalloproteins using EPR and ENDOR methods. Charles took up a faculty position at Simon Fraser University in 2004, where he is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry. His current research interests are focused on the development of new metal-based anticancer compounds, using a combination of synthesis, biological studies, and spectroscopy. He is currently Chair of the Department of Chemistry at SFU.
Charles Walsby obtained his B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D. in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His Ph.D. work was performed under the supervision of Dr. Rod Claridge and involved EPR studies of inorganic crystal systems. In 1999 he took a post-doctoral position with Prof. Brian Hoffman at Northwestern University where he studied metalloproteins using EPR and ENDOR methods. Charles took up a faculty position at Simon Fraser University in 2004, where he is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry. His current research interests are focused on the development of new metal-based anticancer compounds, using a combination of synthesis, biological studies, and spectroscopy. He is currently Chair of the Department of Chemistry at SFU.
Post-doctoral Fellow
Greg MacNeil
Greg completed his PhD in our group in 2023, and is now working as a Post-Doc funded by Mitacs and NSERC in collaboration with BOLD Therapeutics. |
Graduate Students
Tolulope Gbadebo
Tolu joined our group in 2023. He has recently transferred to the Ph.D. program. 
Sarah Wood
Sarah will be joining our group in the Fall, having just completed her B.Sc. at UNBC. |
Kavisha Rathnayake
Kavisha joined our group in 2023. Her Master's project is targeting mitochondria with metal based anticancer compounds. |
Undergraduate Students
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Bardia Shahbod
Bardia is currently an NSERC-USRA recipient working on bimetallic Ru anticancer complexes Nicholas Tjandra
Nicholas joined our group this year as an undergraduate volunteer. He is working on new anticancer copper complexes Ranya Abbaszadeh
Ranya joined our group this year as a CHEM 296 student. |
Haley Mills
Haley is CHEM 296 student who is developing new organometallic Ru anticancer compounds Nanour Minasian
Nanour joined our group as a CHEM 296 student this year. She is working on new organometallic Ru anticancer complexes |
Undergraduate positions are available in the Spring!!! Particularly for CHEM 296, CHEM 396, and CHEM 481, 483, and 484, to join our team.
Recent Alumni
Saeid Farzaneh
Saied completed his Master's in 2023 year and is currently working as a Laboratory Technician in the Analytical/Physical Chemistry Lab at SFU. Gwen Bui
Gwen worked joined our group as a USRA student in the Summer of 2021. Her research was on medicinal applications of metallocenes. 
Paola Manjarres
Paola was an NSERC USRA student in the Spring of 2021. She worked on novel reactions in ionic liquids. 
Aryan Houshmand
Aryan Completed his Master's in 2023. 
Dr. Greg MacNeil
Greg completed his Ph.D. in 2023 and has returned to our group as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. 
Dr. Shane Harrypersad
Shane completed his Ph.D. in 2022 and is now Senior Scientist at Bold Therapeutics. 
Dr. Kate Prosser
Kate completed here Ph.D. in our group in the Spring of 2019. After being awarded and NSERC postdoctoral fellowship, she now works for the Canadian Government. 
Kaitlin Branch
Kaitlin worked in our group as an NSERC-USRA during the summer of 2018. She is now at graduate school at the University of British Columbia 
Justin Ching
Justin was an NSERC-USRA researcher during the summer of 2018. . 
Ian Chagunda
Ian was an NSERC-USRA during the summer of 2019. He is now at graduate school at the University of Victoria 
Micheal Aaron
Michael was a member of our group and the Warren research group in the Department of Chemistry at SFU. He developed nanoparticle drug delivery systems for metal based anticancer compounds. 
Shireen Jozi
Shireen recently completed M.Sc. studies in our group. Her research developed nitric-oxide releasing antimicrobial and anticancer complexes. 
Annica Chu
Annica was an undergraduate volunteer researcher and NSERC USRA. She is now planning to pursue graduate school in Chemistry. 
Alli Jussila
Alli joined us as an NSERC USRA scholar during the 2015 Summer semester. She did a second NSERC USRA semester with our group in the 2017 Summer semester, working on Ru anticancer compounds. In 2018 she did a two semester research project (CHEM 484) on redox-activated ruthenium anticancer compounds. 
Christian Manos
Christian visited our group as a MITACS scholar from Melbourne, Australia. 
Dr. Changhu Mu
Changhua defended his Ph.D. in 2016. His focused on bimetallic, redox-active, metal based anticancer compounds. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. 
Stephanie Chang
Stephanie completed her M.Sc. developing new fluorinated anticancer compounds and in vivo imaging techniques. She is now working in the medical device industry. 
Prof. Michael Webb
Mike was a Ph.D. student in our group. He recently accepted a faculty position at Illinois State University, USA. 
Prof. Jian Zhao
Jian was a Post Doc. in our group and is now a faculty member at Southeastern University in China. 
Chen Zhang
Chen was an M.Sc. student co-supervised with Prof. Storr. Her M.Sc. research involved redox-activated cobalt anticancer compounds. 
Felix Saraci
Felix is a student at Queen's University and who volunteered in our lab during the last two summers. He has working on copper-based anticancer agents (recently published!) |
Matthew Tung
Matthew was an undergraduate volunteer in the spring semester of 2017. Matthew joined us again for a 2-semester CHEM 484 research project. He is now in graduate school in chemistry at the University of Toronto 
Rikesh Panchmatia
Rikesh joined our group in the Fall of 2013 and worked on organometallic complexes as anticancer candidates. 
Jessica Kumar
Jessica was an undergraduate volunteer researcher. She is studying for her B.Sc. in Health Sciences. 
Rita Gladkikh
Rita joined in Summer 2015 for a CHEM 481 research semester. She develolped new ruthenium antimetastatic complexes that target protein interactions. 
Tien Do
Tien joined us from Vietnam as a MITACS Globalink intern. She worked on Ru(II) arene complexes. Dr. Shadia Elsayed
Dr. Elsayed visited our group from Damietta University in Egypt. Her research interests involve Ru(II) arene complexes with anticancer activity. 
Phuc Hoang Le
Phuc joined us from Vietnam as a MITACS Globalink intern. He has worked on new cytotoxic copper complexes (recently published!). 
Dania Ceballos
Dania was a MITACS Globalink intern, who joined us from Mexico. She synthesizing new ligands for redox-active anticancer metal complexes. 
Kyle Grewal
Kyle was a volunteer in our group in 2017. He worked on new Ru(II) arene complexes. 
Shradha Zakharia
Shradha worked on an undergradute research project, involving Ru(II) organometallic anticancer compounds (recently published!). She visited SFU on an exchange program from the University of Bath in England, where she is studying Chemistry for Drug Discovery. 
Brodie Crawford
Brodie volunteered as an undergraduate researcher in 2018. He holds the record for the highest bowling score in the group. |
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