CBE Welcomes Interim Chair Andre F. Palmer

We are pleased to welcome Andre F. Palmer as Interim Chair of the William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Palmer succeeds Stuart L. Cooper, who served as chair from 2004-2014.

A graduate of Howard University (B.S., 1995) and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1998), Andre has been teaching and conducting research at Ohio State since 2006. Most recently, he received the College of Engineering's Harrison Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education in 2012.

Andre’s research interests encompass the development of novel hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers for a variety of applications in transfusion medicine and tissue engineering. His lab is also developing non-heme based plasma expanders, red blood cell storage solutions and monocyte/macrophage targeted drug delivery systems.

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Palmer!