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 as oxygen therapeutics. His lab is also developing therapeutics for the detoxification of hemoglobin/heme/iron, non-heme based plasma substitutes, and monocyte/macrophage targeted drug delivery systems. He is author of more than 177 peer reviewed publications. Among others, he received the National Science Foundation Career Award, the Gaden award from the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, and the William W. Grimes Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Minority Affairs Community. Prof. Palmer currently serves on the International Scientific Advisory Committee on Blood Substitutes, and recently completed a six year term as a member of the Bioengineering, Technology, and Surgical Sciences Study Section at the National Institutes of Health. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Palmer’s research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.