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

The Laboratory for Bioresponsive Materials is located on the second floor of the newly built Pharmaceutical Sciences Building. The School is equipped with state of the art research facilities including wet and dry labs, instrumentation and equipment rooms, autoclave rooms, cold rooms, variable temperature rooms, tissue culture rooms, dark rooms, and dishwashing facilities.

State of the art research and support facilities


Figure 1. a) and b) Gas-Vacuum manifolds for chemical synthesis.  c) Microwave synthesizer for chemical synthesis. d) Preparatory High Pressure Liquid Chromatography for purification of materials synthesized. e) Flash Chromatography for purification of compounds synthesized. f)  Digital Melting and Boiling point apparatus for characterizing compounds made. g) Analytical High Pressure Chromatography for characterizing materials and compounds made. h) Solvent drying system. i) Reduced Pressure Evaporation (Rotovap). j) pH and Temperature meter. k) analytical and top loading balances l) Dynamic Light Scattering for Molecular weight, radius and charge characterization. m) High pressure homogenizer for micro and nanoparticle emulsion formation.

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