Lab News
1/'12 Congratulations to Prof. Almutairi for being awarded the JPSA Award for Best Presentation at the POC 2012 meeting in Doha
1/'12 Advanced Materials has accepted our paper on a new and simple method to fabricate complex tissue culture matrices
11'11 Science has highlighted our work in a piece titled 'Building a Breakable Capsule'
5'11 Enas's paper is published in Bioconjugate Chemistry.
4'11 Cathryn's paper is published in Analytical Chemistry.
4/'11 Congratulations to Sophia Harrison on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award!
3/'11, Nadia, Cathryn, Enas and Adah present a total of five talks at the ACS National Meeting in Anaheim
9/'10, Jagadis's paper is published in ACS Nano.
8/'10, Enas, Gloria, Jagadis and Nadia present at both the Gordon Research Conference and the American Chemical Society meetings.
6/'10, Nadia's paper is published in JACS.
3/'10, Congratulations to Dr. Jose Morachis on receiving the NIH Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA K12)!
9/'09, Congratulations to Prof. Adah Almutairi on receiving the 2009 NIH New Innovator Award!
2/'09, Our lab was awarded the PhRMA Starter Grant Award for 2009
1/'09, We received a Thieme Chemistry Journals Award 2009
Affiliations
Materials Science and Engineering
Institute of Engineering in Medicine
About
Research at the Laboratory for Bioresponsive Materials utilizes and expands current knowledge in Nanotechnology, Polymer Science, and Chemistry to address new and interesting problems at the frontiers of Biomedical Sciences. Materials with sophisticated architecture, response mechanisms, topology and chemical composition have the potential to serve as an enabling tool to produce unique insights into complex interdisciplinary Biomedical challenges.
Principal Investigator
Prof. Adah Almutairi moved to Los Angeles in 1997 to attend Occidental College where she was awarded the Rodna Nye Scholarship. After receiving an Advanced Bachelor in Chemistry, Prof. Almutairi was selected to receive a GAANN fellowship to continue her studies at the University of California Riverside. In 2005, she completed her PhD in Materials Chemistry and received both the UC Dissertation Award and the prestigious UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. Upon completing her postdoctoral studies at the University of California Berkeley in the laboratories of Prof. Jean Fréchet, in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Prof. Almutairi moved to the University of California San Diego to establish the Laboratory for Bioresponsive Materials as a Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and an affiliate Faculty of the Department of NanoEngineering and a Faculty member of both Materials Science and Engineering and Biomedical Sciences. Adah has authored numerous publications and presented at conferences worldwide. Her research interests are in interfacing Materials Chemistry and Engineering with Biomedical Sciences for practical applications.
Facilities
Our laboratories are located on the second floor of the newly built Pharmaceutical Sciences Building.
Figure 1. a) analytical and top loading balances. b) Analytical High Pressure Chromatography. c) Fluorimeter with lifetime and anisotrophy in UV-VIS-NIR. d) Rotovaps. e) NIR Femtosecond Laser and Optical Table. f) Microwave synthesizer. g) UV-vis irradiation chamber. h) Flash Chromatography. i) Swinging-Bucket Benchtop Centrifuge. j) Solvent drying system. k) in situ Vibrational spectroscopy for real time analysis ReactIR. l) UV-Vis-NIR Spectrophotometer. m) Static and Dynamic Light Scattering. n) Fixed-Rotor Benchtop Centrifuge. o) Digital Melting and Boiling point apparatus. p) Tangential Flow Pump System. q) Cell Counter. r) Freeze Dry system. s) High pressure homogenizer. t) Semi-Preparatory High Pressure Liquid Chromatography. u) Ultrasonic Liquid Processor. v) Benchtop centrifuge. w) MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometer. x) Water Purification System. y) Incubator Shaker.
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Principal Investigator: Prof. Adah Almutairi