September 2022

• Christine was awarded the 2022 Petro-Canada Emerging Innovator Award. Read more about it in YFile News.

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August 2022

• Our group's first paper is published in J. Org. Chem. and was selected as an ACS Editors' Choice Article. Congratulations to Dusty, Tristan, and George!

• Dmytro joins our lab as a MITACS Globalink Research Intern from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in Ukraine. Welcome! 

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July 2022

• Tristan successfully defends his MSc thesis, marking a milestone in the Le Group as the first student to graduate.

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May 2022

• Dusty receives an NSERC PGS-D Scholarship - well done!

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April 2022

• Ali interviews Prof. Nicholas Ball as a part of C&EN's special issue featuring LBGT Trailblazers. Check it out here. 

• Congratulations to Yuriko for winning a NSERC USRA and to Alex for winning a Dean's Undergraduate Research Award from the Faculty of Science!

• Christine highlights some history of FDG and its applications in PET imaging in Nature Chemistry's In Your Element column.

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November 2021

• Congratulations to Dusty and Ali for winning oral presentation prizes at the 2th Annual CBGRC conference!

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October 2021

• Our ACS Petroleum Research Fund New Directions Grant has been approved for funding!

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September 2021

• We welcome three new undergraduate students to the group, Sara, Zichuan and Yuriko.

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August 2021

• Our CFI funding for critical research infrastructure has been approved! Check out the YFile announcement and the Toronto Star news article.

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July 2021

• Christine highlights recent work by the Leonari group in Nature News & Views.

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June 2021

• We thank NSERC for funding our Discovery Grant on "New Building Blocks for the Catalytic Synthesis of Organofluorine Compounds" (2021 Discovery Grants Competition results)

• We welcome Temi Ajayi, a summer undergraduate research assistant, from McMaster University to our group.

• Congratulations to Dusty for winning an Ontario Graduate Scholarship! 

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May 2021

• We welcome Tristan Tiburcio (MSc student, co-supervised with Prof. Caputo) and George Cieszynski (York Science Scholars Award recipient) to our group.

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April 2021

• Congratulations to Cora for winning the Dean's Undergraduate Research Award from the Faculty of Science!

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September 2020

• We welcome Dusty (PhD student), Ali (MSc student), and Cora (undergraduate student) to the group. ​

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May 2020

• The Le Lab is moving to York University July 2020. We are actively recruiting students interested in engaging in research at all levels (undergraduate, MSc, PhD). If you are interested in joining, find out more information here.