Biography

Amirus Saleheen has joined the Department of Chemistry as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Pompano lab in August 2020. Amirus obtained his B.S. in Applied Chemistry & Chemical Engineering at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His Graduate work consisted of developing a novel microfluidic chip to mimic rotary tube culture of rodent brain slices to improve the temporal resolution of downstream perfusate analysis. He also developed a smartphone based quantitative analysis method of Epinephrine in expired and discolored commercial auto-injectors to measure drug availability. In the Pompano lab, Amirus will be engaged in robust fluidic control and stimulation of a lymph node-on-a-chip.