Christian Agatemor

Christian Agatemor

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
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Research website: www.munolab.org

Education and Training

  • B.Sc. (Hons), MSc, University of Benin, Nigeria
  • Ph.D., University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, USA
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Research Interests

  • Multiomics Diagnostics
  • Adaptive Nanomedicine
  • Chemically Tuned Transdermal Delivery
  • Nanoimmunoengineering

Representative Publications

  • Oluwole, S. A.; Weldu, W. D.; Agatemor, C. Hydrophobicity-Driven Enhancement of Hydrogen Bonding in Ionic Liquid Hybrid Solvents. J. Phys. Chem. B2025.
  • Oluwole, S. A.; Weldu, W. D.; Jayaraman, K.; Barnard, K. A.; Agatemor, C. Design Principles for Immunomodulatory Biomaterials. ACS Appl. Bio Mater.2024, 7 (12), 8059–8075.
  • Veríssimo, N. V.; Toledo, D.; Hakim, Q. A.; Hill, A. R.; Quintana, A. A.; Escobar, C. R.; Agatemor, C., et al. Bioderived Deep Eutectic Solvent–Based Topical Chemotherapy for Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin. J. Mol. Liq.2023, 370, 121029.
  • Saeui, C. T.; Shah, S. R.; Fernandez-Gil, B. I.; Zhang, C.; Agatemor, C., et al. Anticancer Properties of Hexosamine Analogs Designed to Attenuate Metabolic Flux through the Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway. ACS Chem. Biol.2023, 18(1), 151–165.
  • Oluwole, S. A.; Veríssimo, N. V.; Denis, A. A.; Garcia, N. T.; Fura, S.; Jayaraman, K.; Agatemor, C., et al. Unusual Photophysics of Geranic Acid Deep Eutectic Solvents. Chem. Commun.2023, 59 (70), 10492–10495.
  • Quintana, A. A.; Sztapka, A. M.; Santos Ebinuma, V. C.; Agatemor, C. Enabling Sustainable Chemistry with Ionic Liquids and Deep Eutectic Solvents: A Fad or the Future? Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2022, 61 (37), e202205609.
  • Agatemor, C.; Buettner, M. J.; Ariss, R.; Muthiah, K.; Saeui, C. T.; Yarema, K. J. Exploiting Metabolic Glycoengineering to Advance Healthcare. Nat. Rev. Chem.2019, 3 (10), 605–620.

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