Research Team

Maryam did her undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering in University of Tehran, Iran. Following her passion in biomedical sciences and biology she joined McMaster’s School of Biomedical Engineering for her Masters in 2011. In her Master’s thesis she looked at the effect of in utero and postpartum exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) on bone properties. Before joining Didar’s lab, she worked for 3 years on a research project where she was designing physical targeted “smart” nanoparticles for drug delivery to tumors. Throughout this project she gained extensive experience in different fields such as polymer synthesis, characterization, nanoparticle preparation and optimization and performing in vitro and in vivo experiments. Her main focus in Didar’s lab is surface modification of medical catheters and heart valves in order to make them biocompatible and to prevent blood coagulation.
Outside research she’s a part-time artist, plays basketball and tennis and is currently the president of the Engineering Graduate Society of McMaster (EGS) and the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Association (BMEGA).