Professor Elizabeth Gillies

Elizabeth Gillies is a Canada Research Chair and Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, and School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Western Ontario. She obtained her B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada in 2000. She then moved to the University of California, Berkeley where she completed her Ph.D. degree in 2004 working under the guidance of Jean Fréchet. After postdoctoral work at the University of Bordeaux with Ivan Huc, she joined Western in 2006. Her team’s research interests are in the development of new functional and biodegradable polymers, stimuli-responsive polymers, phosphorus-containing polymers, and polymer assemblies as well as their application to various areas including drug delivery, regenerative medicine, medical imaging, and the replacement of non-degradable plastics/polymers. She has received a number of awards including an E. W. R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship from NSERC, and membership in Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.