The primary focus of research efforts in the Barron group is to offer significant conceptual and technological contributions to the engineering design of polymeric materials for applications in biotechnology and medicine. Ongoing research involves the design, synthesis, physical/chemical characterization, and testing of novel polymeric materials for a variety of biotechnological and biomedical applications. Depending on the particular project, the interdisciplinary work undertaken by Chemical Engineering graduate students and postdocs intersects the domains of polymer chemistry and polymer physics, biotechnology and biomedical engineering, and/or synthetic bioorganic chemistry and biophysics.

12/07 Two new papers accepted for publication in PNAS (see Publications page).

11/07 Annelise Barron, Lindsay Karfeld, and Nikki Davis attend the International Congress on Biohydrogels in Viareggio, Italy, and present two lectures and a poster on the topic of hydrogels for  tissue engineering applications.

11/07 Barron lab graduate students Jennifer Lin, Jennifer Coyne, Jennifer Rea, Ryan Forster, Brian Root, Dan Hert, Chris Fredlake, and Ann Czyzewski present at the Annual AIChE Meeting in Salt Lake City,  Utah.

9/07 Annelise joins the faculty of the Department of Bioengineering  at Stanford University, as a tenured Associate Professor.

9/06 Annelise E. Barron is promoted to the position of Full Professor with tenure at Northwestern.

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