Principle Investigator
Michael D. Schulz
Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Tech
Research Interests: Antiviral materials, metal extraction, catalyst design, treatment of bacterial infections with toxin-binding compounds, novel polymer synthesis approaches, and chemotherapeutic capture agents.
mdschulz@vt.edu | Office: 313-D Davidson Hall | CV | Google Scholar
Graduate Students
Ophelia Wadsworth
M.A. Chemistry – Fisk University
B.S. Chemistry – University of the Virgin Islands
8th Year Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
Research Interests: Surface engineering of materials for DOX capture.
Email: jwoph17@vt.edu
Rachel Bianculli
B.S. Chemistry – Bowling Green State University
7th Year Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
Research Interests: Synthesis of antiviral polymer therapeutics.
Email: rbiancu@vt.edu
Jonathan Mase
B.S. Biochemistry – Bowling Green State University
6th Year Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
Research Interests: Synthesis of antiviral polymer therapeutics.
Email: jdmase1991@vt.edu
Connor Gallagher
B.S. Chemistry – Western Washington University
5th Year Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
Research Interests: Metal chelating polymers.
Email:cgallagher@vt.edu
Zhen Shi
B.S. Polymer Science and Engineering– Shenzhen University
M.S. Polymer Science– The University of Akron
4th Year Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
Research Interests: Antiviral Polymers
Email: szhen@vt.edu
Gillian Su
B.S. Chemistry- SUNY Binghamton University
4th Year Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
Research Interests: Development of materials for the capture of chemotherapy drugs
Email: gillians@vt.edu
Amira Mohammed
Pharm.D. – Helwan University
M.S Analytical Chemistry – Zagazig University
3rd year Ph.D. Student in Chemistry
Research Interests: Ring-opening Metathesis using hyperbranched polymers
Lane Kennedy
B.S Chemistry – Western Carolina University
M.S Chemistry – Western Carolina University
3rd year Ph.D. Student in Chemistry
Research Interests: Polyesters
Christopher C. Armstrong
B.S. Chemistry: University of New Mexico
3rd Year Ph.D. Student in Chemistry
Research Interests: Metal chelating polymers.
Cassell McMillian
2nd Year Ph.D. Student in Chemistry
Tyler K. Bridges
2nd Year Ph.D. Student in Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Undergraduate Students
Tim Ermolaev
Suzie Muller
Joey Rubino
Mihika Khubchandani
Paul Reiter