Rein V Ulijn
City University of New York, USA
Biography
Dr. Rein Ulijn, Ph.D., is the founding director of the ASRC's Nanoscience Initiative. Appointed in February 2014, he is also the Einstein Professor of Chemistry at Hunter College. Dr. Ulijn joined CUNY from the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland, where he ran an acclaimed nanochemistry lab and served as vice dean of research. He is a pioneer in an area of nanoscience—the study and control of matter on atomic and molecular scales—that focuses on creating materials and systems that are inspired by biology and have unique “adaptive” properties. He leads a team that has developed and commercialized gel technologies that mimic biological environments, important discoveries for the advance of stem cell research, drug development and tissue-engineering techniques designed to interfere with disease processes.
Abstract
Abstract : Supramolecular polymers based on short peptides: building on the building blocks of life