Juana Mendenhall
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- Timothy Swager, Department of Chemistry
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Background
Juana Mendenhall is an assistant professor of chemistry at Morehouse College and a visiting professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She earned a BS from North Carolina A&T State University in 1998 and her PhD from Clark Atlanta University in 2006.
Interests
Mendenhall’s research interests focus on smart therapeutic biomaterials, polymer chemistry and nanotechnology. As an MLK visiting assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, Mendenhall sought to develop cohesive long-term collaborations between Morehouse College and MIT’s research laboratories in chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and biomedical engineering.
