Andre F. Palmer is currently Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University. Prior to this appointment, Prof. Palmer served as Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Howard University.

Prof. Palmer received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 1998. His research interests encompass the development of novel hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers for a variety of applications in transfusion medicine and the use of these oxygen carriers to enhance and target oxygen delivery to mammalian cell cultures. He is author of more than 50 peer reviewed publications. Among others, he received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 2001, and the Lloyd N. Ferguson Young Scientist Award in 2008 from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers. Prof. Palmer currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes and Biotechnology, and on the International Scientific Advisory Committee on Blood Substitutes. He is a member of the Academic Advisory board for the Department of Chemical Engineering at Howard University, and was recently appointed as a standing member of the Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Study Section [BMBI] at the National Institutes of Health.

For more details about his research program please go to his website.