1. Eugenia Kumacheva was awarded the L'Oreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2008 "for the design and development of new materials with many applications including targeted drug delivery for cancer treatments and materials for high density optical data storage".
Eugenia Kumacheva is Canadian Research Chair in Advanced Polymer Materials.
Eugenia Kumacheva is Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Eugenia Kumacheva then joined the research lab of Professor Mitch Winnik at the University of Toronto in Canada to study multicomponent polymer systems.
In 1996, Eugenia Kumacheva became an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto, and in 2005, she was promoted to the ranks of Full Professor.
Eugenia Kumacheva holds 40 patents and is a founder of two companies FlowJEM and KuBE Materials Solutions.
Eugenia Kumacheva's work focuses on polymer science, nanoscience, microfluidics, and interface chemistry.
Eugenia Kumacheva is strongly interested in research with biological applications.
Eugenia Kumacheva has been involved in modeling the biological conditions of myocardial infarctions, strokes, pulmonary embolism, and various other blood related disorders or health conditions using polymers and nanomaterials.
An additional medical application of Eugenia Kumacheva's work is the creation of hydrogels and various other chemical environments to either support the life of a stem cell, affect necrotic heart tissue as well as deter the metastasis of cancer cells.
Eugenia Kumacheva has made strong contributions in the area of self-assembly of nanoparticles and microparticles.