{"id":610,"date":"2010-11-17T20:19:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T01:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ophthalmology\/?page_id=610"},"modified":"2012-07-19T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T19:24:09","slug":"mark-w-grinstaff-phd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ophthalmology\/core\/mark-w-grinstaff-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark W. Grinstaff, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><div id=\"attachment_5308\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 169px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/files\/2009\/06\/Grinstaff-2009HSb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5308 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/files\/2009\/06\/Grinstaff-2009HSb-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Mark Grinstaff\" width=\"159\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Mark W. Grinstaff<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Degrees and Positions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"singlespace\">\n<li>B.A., Occidental College, 1987<\/li>\n<li>Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Honors<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"singlespace\">\n<li>Johnson and Johnson Focused Giving Grant Recipient, 2001<\/li>\n<li>3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 2001<\/li>\n<li>Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2000<\/li>\n<li>Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 2000<\/li>\n<li>Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, 1999<\/li>\n<li>NSF Career Award, 1999<\/li>\n<li>Whitaker Foundation Grant Recipient, 1998<\/li>\n<li>ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award, 1994<\/li>\n<li>NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1993<\/li>\n<li>T.S. Piper Award for Outstanding Inorganic Research, 1991<\/li>\n<li>The ACS Fellowship of the Colloid &amp; Surface Division (Sponsored by Procter &amp; Gamble), 1990<\/li>\n<li>University of Illinois Chemistry Department Fellowship, 1989<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Research<\/h3>\n<p>The <a title=\"Grinstaff Group Page\" href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/mgrin\/\">Grinstaff Group<\/a> pursues highly interdisciplinary research in the areas of biological and macromolecular chemistry. The major goal in these research projects is to elucidate the underlying fundamental chemistry and engineering principles and to use that insight to direct our creative and scientific efforts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>We are designing, synthesizing, and characterizing novel dendrimers<\/strong>, termed \u201cbiodendrimers,\u201d for tissue engineering and biotechnological applications. Currently, we are evaluating these novel biomaterials for the repair of corneal lacerations, for the delivery of anti-cancer drugs, for the delivery of DNA, and as temporary biodegradable scaffolds for cartilage repair.<\/li>\n<li><strong>We are creating novel polymeric coatings<\/strong> termed \u201cinterfacial biomaterials\u201d that control biology on plastic, metal, and ceramic surfaces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>We are designing electrochemical-based sensors\/devices<\/strong> using conducting polymer nanostructures and specific DNA structural motifs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Professor<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Sci Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/maps\/?id=772\">SCI<\/a> 518<br \/>\nPhone: 617.358.3429<br \/>\nFax: 617-353-6466<br \/>\n<a title=\"Grinstaff Email Address\" href=\"mailto:mgrin@bu.edu\">mgrin@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Office Hours: By Appointment<br \/>\n<a title=\"Grinstaff Group Page\" href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/mgrin\/\">Grinstaff Group Homepage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Mark W. Grinstaff Degrees and Positions B.A., Occidental College, 1987 Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992 Honors Johnson and Johnson Focused Giving Grant Recipient, 2001 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 2001 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2000 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 2000 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, 1999 NSF Career Award, 1999 Whitaker Foundation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3705,"featured_media":0,"parent":547,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ophthalmology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ophthalmology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ophthalmology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ophthalmology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ophthalmology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ophthalmology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ophthalmology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions\/970"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ophthalmology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ophthalmology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}