Michael D. Pungente, PhD
Assistant Professor, Organic Chemistry
Phone: (974) 492 8216
PROFILE
Dr. Michael Pungente is Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry at WCMC-Q. He has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he subsequently continued on as a Lecturer with the Department of Chemistry, then as an Instructor with the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC.
Before joining WCMC-Q, Dr. Pungente held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. His area of research includes the synthesis and characterization of novel lipids and polymers as potential non-viral gene therapy reagents.
PUBLICATIONS
- Michael D. Pungente, Christer L. Opstad, Vassila Partali, Richard Sliwka, Sharen Joseph, Dhanya Vijayakumar and Philip L. Leopold*; “A novel class of rigid, cationic nucleic acid transfection reagents based on carotenoid lipids”, 12th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gene Therapy, San Diego, California, May 2009 (accepted).
- Christer L. Øpstad*, Vassilia Partali, Hans-Richard Sliwka, Michael D. Pungente; “Cationic Carotenoid Amphiphiles as Gene Transfection Vectors”, International Carotenoid Society Conference, Okinawa, Japan, June 2008.
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