Marya Ahmed

Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Chemical and Materials Engineering Dept

Personal Website: http://www.ahmedlab.ca

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Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Chemical and Materials Engineering Dept

Email: marya4@ualberta.ca
Address: DICE 12-209 Donadeo Innovation Centre For Engineering
9211 116 St

Edmonton AB

T6G 2H5

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Polymers peptide nanoparticles Immunomodulatory biomaterials antimicrobials anticancer

Featured Publications

Antifouling Coatings Inspired by Biological Templates

Catherine Doyle, Marya Ahmed

Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 2025 March; 10.1002/marc.202400932

Controlled self-assembly of macrocyclic peptide into multifunctional photoluminescent nanoparticles

Ranga Dissanayake, Nauman Nazeer, Zeyaealdin Zarei, Adnan Murad Bhayo, Marya Ahmed

Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 2025 February; 10.1016/j.xphs.2024.11.006

Correction: Nazeer et al. Bacterial-Specific Aggregation and Killing of Immunomodulatory Host Defense Peptides. Pharmaceuticals 2021, 14, 839

Nauman Nazeer, Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Lecompte, Marya Ahmed

Pharmaceuticals. 2024 October; 10.3390/ph17101359

Chemotherapeutics-Loaded Poly(Dopamine) Core-Shell Nanoparticles for Breast Cancer Treatment

Miranda Steeves, Diego Combita, William Whelan, Marya Ahmed

The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 2024 July; 10.1124/jpet.123.001965

Clinical Advances in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Treatment: Focus on Poly (L-lactide-coglycolide) Nanoparticles

Rheal A. Towner, Ranga Dissanayake, Marya Ahmed

The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 2024 July; 10.1124/jpet.123.002016

Special Section on Nanotherapeutics in Cancer Research—Editorial

Rheal A. Towner, Marya Ahmed

The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 2024 July; 10.1124/jpet.124.002257

Secondary Structure Stabilization of Macrocyclic Antimicrobial Peptides via Cross-Link Swapping

Nauman Nazeer, Navjote Kooner, Anupama Ghimire, Jan K. Rainey, William D. Lubell, Deniz Meneksedag-Erol, Marya Ahmed

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 2024 June; 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c00005

MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION, CLINICAL MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE VACCINES AGAINST THE TARGETED VIRAL COMPONENTS OF COVID-19

Taha Nazir, Marya Ahmed, Hameed A. Mirza, Nida Taha

Military Medical Science Letters. 2024 February; 10.31482/mmsl.2024.003

Elucidating the Role of Optical Activity of Polymers in Protein–Polymer Interactions

Samin Jahan, Catherine Doyle, Anupama Ghimire, Diego Combita, Jan K. Rainey, Brian D. Wagner, Marya Ahmed

Polymers. 2023 December; 10.3390/polym16010065

Enhanced Cryopreservation Efficacies of Ice Recrystallization Inhibiting Nanogels

Ranga Dissanayake, Diego Combita, Marya Ahmed

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2023 October; 10.1021/acsami.3c10369

Metastatic Breast Cancer: Review of Emerging Nanotherapeutics

Ranga Dissanayake, Rheal Towner, Marya Ahmed

Cancers. 2023 May; 10.3390/cancers15112906

Targeting Bioinformatics Predicted Biomarkers Associated with Cell Proliferation and Migration for Treating Gliomas: Preclinical Studies in a GL261 Mouse Model

Rheal A. Towner, Nataliya Smith, Debra Saunders, Megan Lerner, Randy L. Jensen, James Battiste, Marya Ahmed, Jonathan D. Wren

Neuroglia. 2023 March; 10.3390/neuroglia4010006

Photoiniferter RAFT Polymerization of Optically Active Hydrophilic Vitamin B5 Analogous Methacrylamide

Diego Combita, Randima Pamunuwegedara, Marya Ahmed

ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 2023 March; 10.1021/acsapm.3c00168

Evaluation of Biological Activities and Medicinal Properties of Honey Drops and Honey Lozenges

Petra Larsen, Marya Ahmed

Nutrients. 2022 November; 10.3390/nu14224738

Evaluation of antioxidant potential of honey drops and honey lozenges

Petra Larsen, Marya Ahmed

Food Chemistry Advances. 2022 October; 10.1016/j.focha.2022.100013

Size and macromolecule stabilizer–dependent performance of gold colloids in immuno-PCR

Mahdis Sadat Tabatabaei, Rafiq Islam, Marya Ahmed

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 2022 March; 10.1007/s00216-021-03857-9

Biomimetic and Hydrophilic Vitamin B5 Analogous Methacrylamide Polymers Prevent Surface Fouling

Diego Combita, Nauman Nazeer, Adnan Murad Bhayo, Marya Ahmed

ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 2022 January; 10.1021/acsapm.1c01505

Bacterial-Specific Aggregation and Killing of Immunomodulatory Host Defense Peptides

Nauman Nazeer, Juan Rodriguez-Lecompte, Marya Ahmed

Pharmaceuticals. 2021 August; 10.3390/ph14090839

Antibacterial activities of physiologically stable, self-assembled peptide nanoparticles

Nauman Nazeer, Jeffrey R. Simmons, Jan K. Rainey, Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Lecompte, Marya Ahmed

Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 2021 January; 10.1039/D1TB01864G

Thermoresponsive and antifouling hydrogels as a radiative energy driven water harvesting system

Diego Combita, Marya Ahmed

Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 2021 January; 10.1039/D0QM00584C

Elucidating the Role of Thermal Flexibility of Hydrogels in Protein Refolding

Anayet Kabir, Marya Ahmed

ACS Applied Bio Materials. 2020 July; 10.1021/acsabm.0c00324

Water recycling efficacies of extremely hygroscopic, antifouling hydrogels

Anayet Kabir, Matthew J. Dunlop, Bishnu Acharya, Rabin Bissessur, Marya Ahmed

RSC Advances. 2018 January; 10.1039/C8RA07915C

Peptides, polypeptides and peptide–polymer hybrids as nucleic acid carriers

Marya Ahmed

Biomaterials Science. 2017 January; 10.1039/C7BM00584A

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Research Students

Currently accepting undergraduate students for research project supervision.

Undergraduate and graduate students positions are available, please send your CV and transcript to marya4@ualberta.ca