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Nanomedicine, nanotechnology, chemistry and polymer science

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Adah Almutairi is a Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry; affiliate faculty in the departments of Bioengineering and NanoEngineering; and Director of the Center for Excellence in Nanomedicine and Engineering in the Institute of Engineering in Medicine.

Professor Almutairi is a 2016 Kavli Fellow and has received numerous honors and awards such as the NIH director’s new innovator award in 2009[1] for her work on “Chemically Amplified Response Strategies for Medical Sciences”

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Almutairi holds over ten US and international patents, two of which are licensed to pharmaceutical industries. Her academic contributions throughout her career to Pharmaceutical Sciences are listed below:

• Introduced the first polymeric nanoparticle to release drug in response to Concentrations of hydrogen peroxide characteristic of inflammation