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Leyla Soleymani is Canada’s Research Chair in Miniaturized Biomedical Devices. Her passion for the miniature world of nanotech and her commitment to collaboration have led her and her colleagues at McMaster University to inventions ranging from rapid tests that use pig saliva to disease detection to a plastic wrap that repels pathogens like rain drops off a lotus leaf.

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Read her McMaster University bio 

Learn how rapid tests developed at McMaster are fighting infection in Canadian livestock

Find out how the next iteration of rapid tests will use chip readers and smartphones

RepelWrap works using a self-cleaning surface design microscopically “tuned” to shed everything that comes into contact with it, down to the scale of viruses and bacteria. 

Read how the design mimics the water-shedding properties of the lotus leaf

Read the Tech Briefs story about award winning RepelWrap