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Assistant Professor in Chemistry | Scientific writer | Pharmacist | PhD in Chemistry

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Hi! My name is Dr Omar Rifaie Graham. I am an Assistant Professor in Chemistry and Scientific writer My science qualifications: - Assistant Professor in Chemistry - Polymer chemistry and nanotechnology (Queen Mary University of London, UK) - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - cell and material interfaces (Imperial College London, UK) - PhD in Chemistry (Adolphe Merkle Institute, Universtiy of Fribourg, Switzerland). - Licenciado in Pharmacy (BSc + MSc 5-year degree) (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain). My writing qualifications: - I have led and written work published in high impact journals such as Nature Chemistry (IF = 24.27), JACS (IF = 16.38), Angewandte Chemie (IF = 16.82), Advanced Materials (IF = 32.09), Nature Communications (IF = 17.69), Small (IF = 13.28), Analytical Chemistry (IF = 6.98). - Awardee of Research Grant Fellowships (> 1 500 000 EUR). My strengths: - Extensive experience at the interface between pharmacology, diagnostics, (polymer) chemistry, biochemistry, nanotechnology, and materials science. - Co-founded a diagnostics spinout company with over £1M in investment funding - Highly experienced in tailoring scientifc message to different audiences. - Attention to details. - Rigour to the highest scientific standards. - Adhesion to deadlines.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Polymer Chemistry
• ★ In vitro Diagnostic Design
• ★ Liposomes
• ☆ Chemical Reagent Development
• ☆ Biocatalysis
• ☆ Molecular Engineering
• ☆ Physical Chemistry
• ☆ Biopolymers
• ☆ Flow Chemistry
• ☆ Green Chemistry
• ☆ Photochemistry
• ☆ Physical Organic Chemistry
• ☆ Biochemistry
• ☆ Immunoassay
• ☆ Biochemical Assays
• ☆ Enzyme Activity Assays
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Biomarkers
• ☆ Cell Biology
• ☆ Cell Signaling Pathways
• ☆ Membrane Biology
• ☆ Microscopy
• ☆ Electron Microscopy
• ☆ Applied Chemistry
• ☆ Biomarker Discovery
• ☆ Pharmacy
• ☆ Clinical Pharmacy
• ☆ Drug Discovery
• ☆ Drug Design
• ☆ Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• ☆ Pharmaceutical Process Development
• ☆ Small Molecule Manufacturing
• ☆ Biologic & Biosimilar Manufacturing
• ☆ Point-of-Care Devices
• ☆ Biomarker Analysis
• ☆ Lab-on-a-Chip Devices
• ☆ Drug Delivery Technologies
• ☆ Pharmaceutical Technology

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting

Research Market Research, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Product Development Product Evaluation

Work Experience

Lecturer / Assistant Professor

Queen Mary University of London

September 2023 - Present

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Imperial College London

February 2019 - August 2023

Education

PhD in Macromolecular Chemistry (Macromolecular chemistry)

Adolphe Merkle Institute

August 2014 - Present

Licenciado in Pharmacy (5 year degree)

Universidad Complutense de Madrid Facultad de Farmacia

September 2008 - March 2014

Erasmus Research Stay (School of Pharmacy, Prof Stephen Neidle, Biomolecular Structure Group)

University College London

February 2013 - July 2013

Certifications

• PhD in Chemistry

  University of Fibourg, Switzerland

  July 2018 - Present

• Licenciado in Pharmacy

  Complutense University of Madrid

  March 2014 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Omar Rifaie Graham, Adrian Najer, Jonathan Yeow, Christopher Adrianus, Mohamed Chami, Junyi Che(2022). Differences in Human Plasma Protein Interactions between Various Polymersomes and Stealth Liposomes as Observed by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy . Macromolecular Bioscience. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 2200424. Wiley

Rujie Sun, Xin Song, Kun Zhou, Yuyang Zuo, Richard Wang, Omar Rifaie‐Graham, David Peeler, Ruoxiao Xie, Yixuan Leng, Hongya Geng, et al.(2022). Assembly of Fillable Microrobotic Systems by Microfluidic Loading with Dip Sealing . Advanced Materials. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 2207791. Wiley

Omar Rifaie Graham, Jonathan Yeow, Adrian Najer, Richard Wang, Rujie Sun, Kun Zhou, Tristan Nicolas Dell, Christopher Adrianus, Chalaisorn Thanapongpibul, Mohamed Chami, et al.(2022). Photoswitchable gating of non-equilibrium enzymatic feedback in chemically communicating polymersome nanoreactors . Nature Chemistry. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Omar Rifaie Graham(2022). Microliter Scale Synthesis of Luciferase‐Encapsulated Polymersomes as Artificial Organelles for Optogenetic Modulation of Cardiomyocyte Beating . Advanced Science. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 2200239. Wiley

Adrian Najer and Joshua Blight and Catherine B. Ducker and Matteo Gasbarri and Jonathan C. Brown and Junyi Che and H{\aa}kon H{\o}gset and Catherine Saunders and Miina Ojansivu and Zixuan Lu and Yiyang Lin and Jonathan Yeow and Omar Rifaie-Graham and Michael Potter and Ren{\'{e}}e Tonkin and Jelle Penders and James J. Doutch and Athina Georgiadou and Hanna M. G. Barriga and Margaret N. Holme and Aubrey J. Cunnington and Laurence Bugeon and Margaret J. Dallman and Wendy S. Barclay and Francesco Stellacci and Jake Baum and Molly M. Stevens(2022). Potent Virustatic Polymer–Lipid Nanomimics Block Viral Entry and Inhibit Malaria Parasites In Vivo . ACS Central Science. American Chemical Society ({ACS})

Najer, Adrian, Blight, Joshua, Ducker, Catherine B., Gasbarri, Matteo, Brown, Jonathan C., Che, Junyi, Hogset, Hakon, Saunders, Catherine, Ojansivu, Miina, Lu, Zixuan, et al. (2022). Potent Virustatic Polymer-Lipid Nanomimics Block Viral Entry and Inhibit Malaria Parasites In Vivo . ACS Central Science.

Rifaie-Graham, Omar, Galensowske, Nikolas F. B., Dean, Charlie, Pollard, Jonas, Balog, Sandor, Gouveia, Micael G., Chami, Mohamed, Vian, Antoine, Amstad, Esther, Lattuada, Marco, et al. (2021). Shear Stress-Responsive Polymersome Nanoreactors Inspired by the Marine Bioluminescence of Dinoflagellates . Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Pollard, Jonas, Rifaie-Graham, Omar, Raccio, Samuel, Davey, Annabelle, Balog, Sandor, Bruns, Nico (2020). Biocatalytically Initiated Precipitation Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) as a Quantitative Method for Hemoglobin Detection in Biological Fluids . Analytical Chemistry.

Raccio, Samuel, Pollard, Jonas, Djuhadi, Ashley, Balog, Sandor, Pellizzoni, Michela M., Rodriguez, Kyle J., Rifaie-Graham, Omar, Bruns, Nico (2020). Rapid quantification of the malaria biomarker hemozoin by improved biocatalytically initiated precipitation atom transfer radical polymerizations . Analyst.

Omar Rifaie‐Graham, Nikolas F. B. Galensowske, Charlie Dean, Jonas Pollard, Sandor Balog, Micael G. Gouveia, Mohamed Chami, Antoine Vian, Esther Amstad, Marco Lattuada, et al. (2020). Shear Stress‐Responsive Polymersome Nanoreactors Inspired by the Marine Bioluminescence of Dinoflagellates . Angewandte Chemie.

Bruns, Nico, Rifaie-Graham, Omar, Ulrich, Sebastian, Galensowske, Nikolas, Balog, Sandor, Chami, Mohamed, Rentsch, Daniel, Hemmer, James, De Alaniz, Javier Read, Boesel, Luciano (2019). Controlling biocatalysis by transiently switchable polymersome nanoreactors . Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society.

Rifaie-Graham, Omar, Pollard, Jonas, Raccio, Samuel, Balog, Sandor, Rusch, Sebastian, Hernandez-Castaneda, Maria Andrea, Mantel, Pierre-Yves, Beck, Hans-Peter, Bruns, Nico (2019). Hemozoin-catalyzed precipitation polymerization as an assay for malaria diagnosis . Nature Communications.

Rifaie-Graham, Omar, Apebende, Edward A., Bruns, Nico (2019). Bio-Inspired Polymersome Nanoreactors . Chimia.

Rifaie-Graham, Omar, Ulrich, Sebastian, Galensowske, Nikolas F. B., Balog, Sandor, Chami, Mohamed, Rentsch, Daniel, Hemmer, James R., de Alaniz, Javier Read, Boesel, Luciano F., Bruns, Nico (2018). Wavelength-Selective Light-Responsive DASA-Functionalized Polymersome Nanoreactors . Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Page, Zachariah, Ulrich, Sebastian, Hemmer, James, Clark, Kyle, Diaz, Yvonne, Stricker, Friedrich, Dolinski, Neil, Rifaie-Graham, Omar, Bruns, Nico, Boesel, Luciano, et al. (2018). Negative photochromic polymer conjugates . Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society.

(2018). Self-Reporting Fiber-Reinforced Composites That Mimic the Ability of Biological Materials to Sense and Report Damage . Advanced Materials.

Rifaie-Graham, Omar, Hua, Xiao, Bruns, Nico, Balog, Sandor (2018). The Kinetics of β-Hematin Crystallization Measured by Depolarized Light Scattering . Small.

Rifaie-Graham, Omar, Galensowske, Nikolas, Dean, Charlie, Balog, Sandor, Bruns, Nico (2017). Marine glow biomimicry by nucleobase-containing shear responsive polymersome nanoreactors . Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society.

Ulrich, Sebastian, Hemmer, James R., Page, Zachariah A., Dolinski, Neil D., Rifaie-Graham, Omar, Bruns, Nico, Hawker, Craig J., Boesel, Luciano F., de Alani, Javier Read (2017). Visible Light-Responsive DASA-Polymer Conjugates . ACS Macro Letters.

Bruns, Nico, Pollard, Jonas, Rifaie-Graham, Omar, Raccio, Samuel, Balog, Sandor, Rusch, Sebastian, Beck, Hans-Peter (2017). Biocatalytic precipitation ATRP as assay for malaria diagnostics . Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society.

Araujo, Jose V., Rifaie-Graham, Omar, Apebende, Edward A., Bruns, Nico (2017). Self-reporting Polymeric Materials with Mechanochromic Properties . RSC Polymer Chemistry Series.

Fodor, Csaba, Gajewska, Bernadetta, Rifaie-Graham, Omar, Apebende, Edward A., Pollard, Jonas, Bruns, Nico (2016). Laccase-catalyzed controlled radical polymerization of N-vinylimidazole . Polymer Chemistry.