Morgan Cardno
Ph.D. Candidate
Morgan is current a Ph.D. Candidate, co-supervised by both Dr. Roderick Slavcev at the School of Pharmacy and Dr. Marc Aucoin at the Department of Chemical Engineering. He completed his B.A.Sc. in Nanotechnology Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Morgan previously participated in the Process Engineering of Emerging Nano-Medicines (PrEEmiuM), a research group with the goal of promoting cross-disciplinary research between engineering and science in (bio)pharmaceutical engineering. He was a MITACS Accelerate Program intern with Theraphage in 2026, attended the 2026 OBIO Investment Summit, and completed the CASTL BioInnovation Scientist (BIS) Foundations training program with hands-on experience at a therapeutic R&D training facility in Montreal.
His Ph.D. project focuses on optimizing the iPhAGE system for large-scale biomanufacturing, as well as the biomanufacturing process of non-viral vectors using the iPhAGE system.
Education
B.A.Sc. in Nanotechnology Engineering, University of Waterloo (2017)