Alexandre Moquin.

Background
Alexandre obtained his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the Université de Montréal in 2007. After a year in the Master’s program in Pharmaceutical Sciences with option in medicinal chemistry, he transferred to the Ph.D. program. He specializes in the preparation of nanomedicine-nanodelivery systems, imaging systems and their thorough characterization as well as in the study of the subcellular fate.

Research highlight
Alexandre‘s research focuses on the synthesis and functionalization of quantum dots; preparation of polymeric nanodelivery systems and physicochemical characterization of the nanostructures by asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation among other techniques (DLS, QCM-D, UV-Abs, Spectrofluorometry, HPLC).

Fellowships & awards

1. FQRNT for strategic clusters: Center for Biorecognition and Biosensors
2. Scholarship from the Faculty of Pharmacy (U. de Montréal).

Publications

1. Dual crosslinked hydrogel nanoparticles by nanogel bottom-up method for sustained-release delivery. Shimoda A, Sawada S, Kano A, Maruyama A, Moquin A, Winnik FM, Akiyoshi K. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces. 2012 Nov 1;99:38-44.
2. The use of field-flow fractionation for the analysis of drug and gene delivery systems. Moquin A, Winnik FM in Field-flow fractionation in biopolymer analysis. New York, Springer. 2011
3. Short ligands affect modes of QD uptake and elimination in human cells. Al-Hajaj NA, Moquin A, Neibert KD, Soliman GM, Winnik FM, Maysinger D. ACS Nano. 2011 Jun 28;5(6):4909-18.
4. Lipopolysaccharide-QD micelles induce marked induction of TLR2 and lipid droplet accumulation in olfactory bulb microglia. Lalancette-Hébert M, Moquin A, Choi AO, Kriz J, Maysinger D. Mol Pharm. 2010 Aug 2;7(4):1183-94.
5. Thiolated polyaspartamide is an effective biocompatible coating agent for quantum dots. Zorc B, Lovric J, Jain MP, Moquin A, Cho SJ, Filipovic-Grcic J. Journal of drug delivery science and technology., 2009 19 (2) 139-144.