SEAC Charles N. Reilley & Royce W. Murray Award Session

Susan Lunte is the Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Director of the Adams Institute for Bioanalytical Chemistry, and Director of the NIH COBRE Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. She received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Kalamazoo College and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Purdue University working with Peter Kissinger. In 1987 she joined the University of Kansas Center for Bioanalytical Research under the direction of Ted Kuwana. She joined the faculty at KU in 1995. Sue is the recipient of the 2018 ANACHEM award, 2021 ACS-ANL Roland F. Hirsch Distinguished Service Award, 2023 ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry, and the 2024 Ralph N. Adams Award. Dr. Lunte’s research interests include the development of new electrochemical detection methods for capillary and microchip electrophoresis, as well as methodologies for separation and detection of peptides, amino acids, neurotransmitters and pharmaceuticals in biological fluids. This includes separation-based sensors for the continuous monitoring of drugs and neurotransmitters in freely roaming animals and new methodologies for the determination of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in cells.

Hang Ren received a B.S. (Hons.) in Chemistry (Yat-Sen Class) from Sun Yat-Sen University in 2011 and his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Michigan under Mark E. Meyerhoff in 2016. His Ph.D. work is focused on the electrochemical delivery of nitric oxide (NO) for biomedical applications. From 2016 to 2018, he was a postdoc associate at the University of Utah with Henry S. White. His postdoc work is about nanoelectrochemistry, including single-molecule analysis in protein ion channels and the nucleation of single nanobubbles.