Research Interests:
Dana is a postdoctoral researcher focusing on targeted delivery of therapeutics to the renal endothelium via surface engineering of polymer nanoparticles with antibody fragments.
Research History:
As an undergraduate researcher, Dana studied shape-memory polymers and radical-mediated “click” chemistry emulsion polymerizations. Dana completed her Ph.D. in 2022 with a thesis on “Informed Design of Polymer-Selective Nanoprobes for Optical Super-Resolution Microscopy.” As part of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, she investigated the interaction of ultrasmall inorganic nanoparticles with specific domains in block copolymer thin films.