Dr John W Macgregor Memorial Lecture
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Dr. J.W. Macgregor
Chairman
Department of Pathology
1951 - 1970
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The Dr. J. W. Macgregor Memorial Lecture is a tribute to Dr. Macgregor who was appointed as Chairman of the Department of Pathology in 1951 and held that position for 19 years until his retirement in 1970. Born in Winnipeg in 1905, he obtained his medical degree from the University of Alberta. He established a residency training program in General Pathology after World War II and was also the Provincial Pathologist. While he is remembered as a stern and demanding task master he was also generous and kind and became affectionately known as "Black Mac". After his retirement he continued to work until 1975 as Emeritus Professor.
2026 Dr. John W. Macgregor Memorial Lecture
Dr. Hanadi Sleiman, FRS, FRSC
Professor and Canada Research Chair
McGill University
Lecture title: DNA Nanostructures as Precision Therapies
Hanadi Sleiman is a Professor of Chemistry and Canada Research Chair in DNA Nanoscience at McGill University. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, and was a CNRS postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn’s laboratory at the Université Louis Pasteur. She joined the faculty at McGill University in 1999, and her research group focuses on using the molecule DNA as a template to assemble nanostructured materials.
Sleiman is Fellow of the Royal Society (London) and of the Royal Society of Canada, and was Associate Editor of J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2017-25). Among her research recognitions are the Canadian Society for Chemistry E. W. R. Steacie Award (2024), NSERC Polanyi Award (2021), Izatt-Christensen Award in Supramolecular Chemistry (2016) and Killam Research Fellowship (2018).
Sleiman also received the Society of Chemical Industry Kalev Pugi award (2024), Cottrell STAR Award (2021), Albus Award (Grifols, 2018), Canadian Society of Chemistry R. U. Lemieux Award in Organic Chemistry (2018), Netherlands Scholar Award in Supramolecular Chemistry (2018), Canadian Society for Chemistry Strem Award (2009), NSERC Discovery Accelerator (2008), McGill Dawson Award (2004-13), Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (2004-12) and Cottrell Scholar (Research Corp., 2002). She received named lectureships including Ayer (U. Alberta), Hirschmann (U. Wisconsin-Madison), BP Sustainability (U. Cambridge), Bristol-Myers-Squibb (Columbia U. and MIT), Swiss Chemical Society (U. Genève, EPFL, U. Neuchâtel, U. Fribourg, U. Basel) and E. Gordon Young (Chemical Institute of Canada).
Sleiman is Editorial Advisory Board member of J. Org. Chem., ChemBioChem, and Trends in Chem. She received the McGill Principal’s Prize (2002) and the Leo Yaffe Award (2005) for Excellence in Teaching.