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Professor Palmer is Fenburr Ohio Eminent Scholar in Nanotechnology, and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University. Palmer’s research interests encompass the development of novel hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers for a variety of applications in transfusion medicine as red blood cell substitutes and tissue engineering as oxygen-carrying perfusates. His lab is also developing scavengers of hemoglobin, heme and iron, non heme-based plasma substitutes, and monocyte/macrophage targeted drug delivery systems. He is author of more than 180 peer reviewed publications. Among others, he received the 2021 Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award from The Ohio State University College of Engineering, and the 2021 Gaden Award from the journal Biotechnology & Bioengineering (Wiley) in recognition of a “truly outstanding paper”. Prof. Palmer served as chair of the William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from 2014-2019, and as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering from 2021-2023. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Palmer’s research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.