Regular biography
Ashok Kakkar is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at McGill University. His research focuses on materials chemistry, synthesis and catalysis, and chemical biology. His laboratory develops smart and multi-tasking nanomaterials for biomedical applications, utilizing macromolecules and metal nanoparticles. His work is interdisciplinary, integrating synthetic chemistry, materials science, and biology. Kakkar holds a PhD from the University of Waterloo and has been a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge and Northwestern. He teaches courses such as CHEM 110 and CHEM 574.
Scholar-generated biography
Ashok Kakkar is a researcher at McGill University specializing in Nanomedicine, Macromolecular Chemistry, Miktoarm polymers, Dendrimers, and Metal Nanoparticles. His work focuses on the synthesis and application of advanced macromolecular structures for drug delivery systems, with an emphasis on nanocarriers for targeted and efficient therapeutic delivery. Kakkar's research explores the self-assembly of miktoarm star polymers and dendrimers, as well as the physico-chemical properties of nanoparticles influencing their biological behavior. His contributions include the development of stimuli-responsive materials and multifunctional nanocarriers for biomedical applications, such as mitochondrial targeting and theranostic imaging.