Adah Almutairi

Adah Almutairi

Adah Almutairi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Email:
aalmutairi@ucsd.edu

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Dr. Adah Almutairi was born in Portland, Oregon and moved to Los Angeles in 1997 to attend Occidental College where she was awarded the Rodna Nye Scholarship. After receiving an Advanced Bachelor in Chemistry, Prof. Almutairi was selected to receive a GAANN fellowship to continue her studies at the University of California Riverside. In 2005, she completed her PhD in Materials Chemistry and received both the UC Dissertation Award and the prestigious UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. Upon completing her postdoctoral studies at the University of California Berkeley in the laboratories of Prof. Jean Fréchet, in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Prof. Almutairi moved to the University of California San Diego in 2008 to establish the Laboratory for Bioresponsive Materials as a Faculty of Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and an affiliate Faculty of the Department of NanoEngineering and a Faculty member of the Materials Science and Engineering Program.

Research Interests

Interfacing Materials Chemistry and Engineering with Biomedical Sciences for practical applications.

Selected Publications

Almutairi, A., Tham, F.S., Marsella, M.J. (2004) "ortho-Oligoarylthiophenes: 3,3’ Diphenyl 2,2’ Bithiophene as Helical Building Blocks: A study of Structure, Theory, Electrochemistry, and Optical Properties." Tetrahedron Letters 60(34), 7187-7190.

Almutairi, A., Yoon, K., Marsella, M.J. (2006) "Molecular springs and muscles: progress towards augmented electromechanical actuation." Pure and Applied Chemistry 78 (4): 777-781. (Communication)

Almutairi, A., Berezin, M.Y., Guillaudeu, S., Achilefu, S., Fréchet, J.M.J. (2008) "Biodegradable pH sensing dendritic nanoprobes for near infrared fluorescence lifetime and intensity imaging." Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130, 444-445. (Communication)

Cohen, J.L., Almutairi, A., Cohen, J.A., Schuster, D., Fréchet, J.M.J. (2008) "Enhanced cell penetration of acid degradable particles functionalized with cell penetrating peptides." Bioconjugate Chemistry, ASAP. (Communication)

List of Publications in Pub Med