CURRICULUM VITAE April 2010 Gabriel P. López, Ph.D. Professor ...

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Nine of the Group members have moved on to tenure track positions in
higher education.
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, UNM-Harvard PREM: Leadership in Biomaterials
(~$2.5 million in funding approved by National Science Foundation), University of New
Mexico
This project, funded through the NSF’s program on Partnerships for
Research and Education in Materials (PREM), has established a research
and educational partnership between the Materials Research Science and
Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Harvard University, the University of
New Mexico, the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, the
Albuquerque Public Schools and several other educational institutions and
organizations. The partnership integrates alliances with local educational
institutions, focusing on education and training of minority students,
service-learning, teacher-training, team-based research, and professional
development at all levels to result in substantive institutional and
infrastructure development. This systematic approach has had an
enormous impact by achieving the goals of the PREM in the short term,
while guaranteeing an enduring legacy for the NSF investment in the form
of an active, multi-faceted, biomaterials education and research program in
the State of New Mexico.
DIRECTOR, W.M. Keck Nanofluidics Laboratory, University of New Mexico
This laboratory and its associated research programs is investigating the
transport of complex fluids in channels of nanoscale dimensions and
develop a new generation of methods and devices that address the urgent
need for efficient separation of biomolecular components within complex
mixtures. Research in this laboratory has being funded by the National
Science Foundation (NIRT and IGERT programs), the W.M. Keck
Foundation, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Defense Threat
Reduction Agency. The laboratory is also providing graduate and
undergraduate students a significant new educational opportunities
through a newly developed lecture / laboratory course in micro- and
nanofluidics.
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, SENSORS: Multi-Analyte Affinity Micro-Columns,
(~$2 million funded by the National Science Foundation) and previously (1995-2000) the
Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant: Integrated, Multi-Analyte
Chemical Microsensors, ($2.25 million funded by the Office of Naval Research)
University of New Mexico
These projects have brought together researchers from UNM’s School of
Engineering, College of Arts and Sciences and Health Science Center to
address critical issues in the development of new, versatile and adaptive