Claire Sklar

Research Assistant Cui Lab @Johns Hopkins Whiting School Of Engineering

Baltimore, MD, US

Contributed to the development of peptide-based hydrogelators for delivery of FTY720, showing enhanced drug-loading capacity and prolonged drug release; research published in ACS Nano•Manually perform Fmoc solid-phase peptide synthesis to generate peptides of 10+ amino acids as well as synthesize prodrugs (drug + hydrolysable/reducible linker) to make peptide–drug conjugates; optimize self-assembly by varying co-solvents, pH, salt, and other conditions•Independently perform MALDI, ESI, HPLC, CD, and TEM for characterization, purification, and/or analysis