Interim Chair Andre Palmer Named AIMBE Fellow
Interim Chair Andre Palmer has won significant and well-deserved recognition for his contributions to the profession in being elected to the College of Fellows of The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
AIMBE is a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with approximately 50,000 individual members. AIMBE's College of Fellows features 1,500 individuals, and includes outstanding bioengineers, entrepreneurs, and innovators in academia, industry and government who have distinguished themselves through significant and transformative contributions in research, education and industrial practice. Fellows represent the top 2% of the medical and biological engineering community in the country.
Professor Palmer’s research interests encompass the development of novel hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers for a variety of applications in transfusion medicine and tissue engineering. He has engineered tense and relaxed state variable molecular weight polymerized hemoglobins for use as red blood cell substitutes; variable molecular weight polymerized human serum albumins for use as plasma expanders; and a high payload drug delivery system that specifically targets monocytes and macrophages. His lab is also developing non-heme based plasma expanders, red blood cell storage solutions and monocyte/macrophage targeted drug delivery systems.
He received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 2001, the Lloyd N. Ferguson Young Scientist Award in 2008, and the 2012 Harrison Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education from The Ohio State University College of Engineering.
