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Theresa
M. Reineke
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry
PhD, The University of Michigan, 2000
MS, Arizona State University, 1998
Address:
Department of Chemistry
P.O. Box 210172
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172
phone:
513-556-9250
fax: 513-556-9239
Theresa.Reineke@uc.edu
http://www.che.uc.edu/reineke/reineke_group_homepage.htm
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Biography:
Theresa Reineke is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati. She is a materials chemist with research interests in polymers for biomedical applications and light-emitting materials. After receiving an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 1995, she began her graduate studies at Arizona State University (MS degree) and The University of Michigan (PhD degree) with Dr. Omar Yaghi studying the synthesis and characterization of metal-organic luminescent extended framework materials. After completing her Ph.D. in 2000, she was awarded a National Institutes of Health Fellowship to study the synthesis and biological characterization of carbohydrate-containing polymers for gene therapy in the laboratory of Dr. Mark E. Davis at the California Institute of Technology. In 2002 she joined the faculty at the University of Cincinnati. She studies the synthesis of carbohydrate-containing polymers and dendrimers that self-assemble with DNA and delivery genetic material into cells for gene therapy. In addition, her group is developing new polymers for using in magnetic resonance imaging and luminescent porous molecules for use as sensors.
Research Areas:
• Monomer and polymer synthesis
• Dendrimer synthesis
• Carbohydrate chemistry
• DNA and RNA-binding materials
• Cell culture
• Lanthanide-organic chemistry
• Chemical and biological sensing
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