Jacqueline Deirmenjian

Jacqueline Deirmenjian is a rising fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Chicago, working toward a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 2018. Prior to coming to the University of Chicago, she conducted nanoscience research on molecular self-assembly at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute, under the mentorship of its director, Paul Weiss, PhD. She has also participated in a summer REU program at Northwestern University's International Institute for Nanotechnology, studying pH-Responsive PA Polymer Hybrids, under the direction of Samuel Stupp, PhD. She will be working as a research assistant in the Tirrell lab with Handan Acar, studying therapeutic drug delivery with peptide amphiphiles.