Yannick Léandre Traoré, PhD

Research summary

Dr. Yannick L. Traoré’s research focuses on the design, development, and optimization of innovative drug delivery systems and pharmaceutical technologies to improve the delivery, stability, efficacy, and safety of emerging therapeutics.

His research program focuses on advanced drug delivery platforms, including nanomedicine, nucleic acid therapeutics and delivery, and vaccine formulation. By integrating pharmaceutical formulation, materials science, and drug delivery technology, his work aims to address key challenges in therapeutic delivery and advance innovative approaches from early-stage development toward clinical translation.

Keywords

• Biomaterials
• Drug delivery
• Nanomedicine
• Nucleic acid therapeutics
• Pharmaceutics
• Stimuli-responsive drug delivery

Dr. Yannick Léandre Traoré is an assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, at the University of Manitoba. He received his PhD in Pharmacy from the University of Waterloo in 2021, where he investigated stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems for HIV prevention and the treatment of chronic wounds. He was subsequently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo, where his research included 3D-printed biomaterials, nanoparticle cellular uptake and rapid molecular diagnostics.

Before joining academia, Dr. Traoré worked as a Senior Formulation Scientist in the sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing, where he contributed to drug product formulation development and optimization.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacy, University of Waterloo (2021)
Bachelor of Science, Université de Saint-Boniface (2012)

Awards

W.S. Rickert Graduate Student Fellowship in Science (2019)

Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology Fellowship (2018–2019)

Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (NSERC) (2019–2020)

CSPS Award in Lipid-based Drug Delivery (2019)

Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2018)