Dr. Theresa Reineke
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
P.O. Box 210172
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172
Phone: 513-556-9250
Fax: 513-556-9239
www.che.uc.edu/reineke/reineke_group_homepage.htm
Education:
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 2000-2002
Ph.D. The University of Michigan, 2000
M.S. Arizona State University, 1998
B.S. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1995
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 luminescent materials. After receiving an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 1995, she completed her graduate studies at Arizona State University (M.S. degree) and The University of Michigan (Ph.D. 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. Currently, her group is studying the synthesis of carbohydrate-containing polymers and dendrimers that bind, compact, and deliver therapeutic DNA in vitro and in vivo. In addition, her group is developing new polymers for use in magnetic resonance imaging and luminescent porous molecules for use as sensors.
Awards and Honors:
2007 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow
2007 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Distinguished Lectureship
in Macromolecular Therapeutics
2007 "30 in their 30s" in OH Bioscience Award
2006 Lowenstein Scholar (University of Cincinnati)
2005 Beckman Young Investigator Award
2005 Sigma Xi Outstanding Young Investigator Award
2005 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2003 American Chemical Society (PMSE Division), Arthur K. Doolittle
Award
2002 National Institutes of Health, National Research Service Award
2000 Outstanding Graduate Research Award from the Wirt and Mary
Cornell Prize
1998-2000 ARCS, Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation Fellowship
1999 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award
1998-1999 Pew Charitable Trusts - Preparing Future Faculty Fellow
1997 Excellence as a Teaching Assistant Award
Research Areas:
