Jennifer Fiegel

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Joined the College of Engineering: 2006 

Education: Ph.D., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 2004
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1998

Special Fields of Knowledge: Drug delivery, polymeric biomaterials, nano and microtechnology, airborne infectious diseases.

Present Research Interests: Targeted drug delivery systems for disease of the lung; suppression strategies for airborne pathogens; biophysics of lung fluids.

Selected Publications: 

• J. Fiegel, R. Clarke, D. Edwards. Airborne infectious disease and the suppression of exhaled aerosols [review]. Drug Discovery Today. 2006; 11(1-2):51-57.
• J. Fiegel, F. Jin, J. Hanes, K. Stebe. Wetting of a particle in a thin film. J Colloid Interface Sci. 2005; 291(2):507-514
• J. Fiegel, J. Fu, J. Hanes. Poly(ether-anhydride) microparticle aerosolization improved by controlling particle surface properties. J. Control. Release. 2004;96(3):411-423
• J. Fu, J. Fiegel, J. Hanes. Synthesis and characterization of PEG-based ether-anhydride terpolymers: Novel polymers for pulmonary drug delivery. Macromolecules:2004.37(19):7174-7180.
• J. Fiegel, C. Ehrhardt, U.F. Schaefer, C.-M. Lehr, J. Hames. Large porous particle impingement on lung epithelial cell monolayers: Toward improved particle characterization in the lung. Pharm. Res. 2003;20(5):788-796.

Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships: American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Society for Biological Engineering; Controlled Release Society; Society of Women Engineers; Tau Beta Pi.