Education
2004: BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder
2010: PhD, Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Southern Mississippi
2010-12: Ruth L. Kirschstein T32 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, The New Jersey Center for Biomaterials
• 15 Peer-Reviewed Publications (6 first authorships)
• 2 Provisional Patents
• 2 Book Chapters
• 10 Research Presentations (Regional, National, and International Meetings
Bio
Adam grew up in Littleton, Colorado and went to The University of Colorado to study Chemical Engineering. While at CU, he worked as an intern at Baxter Hemoglobin Therapeutics on the process development team assisting in the scale up, from bench to pilot, on the purification of recombinant hemoglobin. Adam obtained his Ph.D. in Polymer Science from The University of Southern Mississippi working under the direction of Prof. Charles L. McCormick and Prof. Faqing Huang. His dissertation focused on the use of controlled radical polymerization to prepare precise and functional polymeric architectures with utility in both therapeutic and diagnostic applications, notably for packaging and delivery of small interfering RNA (siRNA). As an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, he worked at the interface of polymeric materials and the biological sciences to prepare kinetically assembled nanoparticles with bioactivity towards the management of atherosclerosis. This was a highly interdisciplinary project between the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry at Rutgers University and Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. He continues to work at Princeton on the fabrication of multimodal polymeric nanoparticles for therapeutic and diagnostic delivery to cancer and inflammatory diseases.
Research Interests
Controlled radical polymerization, RAFT polymerization, organic nanoparticle fabrication, functional and stimuli responsive materials, bioconjugation, nanoparticle surface modification, and targeted delivery for both therapeutic and diagnostic applications.
Contact
Lab location: A306, E-Quad
E-mail: ayork (AT) princeton.edu