The DeSimone Research Group

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Latest News...

30 October 2009
DeSimone receives 2009 North Carolina Award for Science,the highest honor the State of North Carolina can bestow to recognize notable achievements of North Carolinians.

24 September 2009
DeSimone receives 2009 NIH Director's Pioneer Award.Pioneer Awards are designed to support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who
propose pioneering – and possibly transforming – approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.

27 February 2009
DeSimone interviewed by Bill Friday on UNC TV's North Carolina People With William Friday
View video of program

Encore presentation Friday, April 3, at 9 PM, and Sunday, April 5, at 5:30 PM on PBS/UNC TV

28 December 2008
DeSimone named "Tar Heel of the Year" by the Raleigh News & Observer.[pdf]
25 June 2008
DeSimone awarded Lemelson-MIT Prize for innovations in Polymer Chemistry.more...
View video profileof Joseph DeSimone and listen to podcasts of him talking about his work.




Principal Investigator

Joseph DeSimone	desimone@unc.edu
	257-B Caudill
	(919) 962-2166 phone
	(919) 962-5467 fax




Administrative Staff

Vicki Haithcock	vph@email.unc.edu
Administrative Manager	257-A Caudill
	(919) 962-5468




Crista Farrell	farrellc@email.unc.edu
Program Assistant	257 Caudill
	(919) 962-8448





Senior Research Staff


Mary E. Napier	mnapier@email.unc.edu
Senior Research Associate	237 Caudill
Life Science Project Manager	(919) 962-6303



Doug Betts	dbetts@unc.edu
Senior Research Associate	237 Caudill
Materials Science Project Manager	(919) 962-6839



Shaomin Tian	smtian@email.unc.edu
Research Associate	351 Caudill
	(919) 962-6095



Chris Luft	jluft@email.unc.edu
Research Associate	351 Caudill
	(919) 962-6095


Graduate Students

Kevin Herlihy	herlihy@email.unc.edu
	234 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396



Liz Enlow	lizenlow@email.unc.edu
	234 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396



Rameshwar Yadav	ryadav@unity.ncsu.edu
	2019 EB1 NCSU
	(919) 513-1137 NCSU
	251 Caudill UNC
	(919) 962-1346 UNC



Janine Nunes	jnunes@email.unc.edu
	233 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396



Stuart Williams	willi3ss@email.unc.edu
	234 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396



Meredith Hampton	mjhampton@unc.edu
	234 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396



Tim Merkel	mtimothy@email.unc.edu
	233 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396



Kelly Chang	kelchang@email.unc.edu
	233 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396



Stephen Jones	stephen_jones@med.unc.edu
	232 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396



Stuart Dunn	ssdunn@email.unc.edu
	255 Caudill
	(919) 962-1346



Jing Xu	jingx@email.unc.edu
	232 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396



Nicole Forman	nforman@email.unc.edu
	251 Caudill
	(919) 962-1346



James Byrne	byrnejamesd@gmail.com
	232 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396



William Hinson	wahinson@email.unc.edu
	251 Caudill
	(919) 962-1346



Lamar (Tony) Perry	lamarp@email.unc.edu
	232 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396



John Fain	john.fain@gmail.com
	251 Caudill
	(919) 962-1346




Undergraduate Students

Ryan Orgel	oxryan@email.unc.edu
	232 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396



Post-Doctoral Fellows

Matt Parrott	parrotmc@email.unc.edu
	232 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396



Christine Conwell	cconwell@email.unc.edu
	232 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396



Jin Wang	jinwang@email.unc.edu
	240 Caudill
	(919) 962-1346


Steven Blake	nano@email.unc.edu
	240 Caudill
	(919) 962-1346



Wonhee Jeong	wonhee@email.unc.edu
	240 Caudill
	(919) 962-1346




Jonathan Pillai	jpillai@email.unc.edu
	240 Caudill
	(919) 962-1346



Merve Ertas	ertas@email.unc.edu
	234 Caudill
	(919) 962-3396


Yapei Wang	wang-yp04@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
	240 Caudill
	(919) 962-1346