Current Group

Title	Education Background	Biography & Research Interests
Hewett University Professor of Chemistry	David S. Hage Ph.D., Iowa State University B.S., University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Postdoctoral, Mayo Clinic	David S. Hage is the Hewett University Professor of Chemistry at UNL. His research interests involve the design and use of affinity-based separations in LC and miniaturized systems for clinical and pharmaceutical analysis. He has served as the editor for the Handbook of Affinity Chromatography, 2^nd edition. He is an editor for the Journal of Chromatography B and is the lead author on a college textbook entitled Analytical Chemistry and Quantitative Analysis.
	Sadia Sharmeen B.S., University of Dhaka M.S., University of Dhaka	Sadia is a Ph.D student in the Chemistry Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her current research focuses on a quantitative study on solute-ligand binding interaction by high-performance affinity chromatography (HPAC) through a non-covalent immobilization process.
	Isaac Kyei B.S., University of Cape Coast M.S., North Carolina A&T State University	Issac is a Ph.D. student in the Chemistry Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research focuses on the analysis of interactions of sulfonylurea drugs with normal and modified human serum albumin by ultrafast affinity extraction.
	Harshana Lakmal Olupathage B.S., University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)	Harshana is a Ph.D. student in the Chemistry Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research focuses on drug-protein interactions using high-performance affinity chromatography.
	B K Sajeeb B. Pharm., University of Dhaka M. Pharm., University of Dhaka	B K Sajeeb is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His current research focuses on analyzing drug-humic acid binding by using affinity chromatography.
	Md Masudur Rahman B. Pharm., University of Rajshahi M. Pharm., University of Rajshahi	Masudur is a Ph.D. student in the Chemistry Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His current research focuses on the development of affinity-based assays for pharmaceuticals and the creation of novel affinity-based supports.
	Samiul Alim BS- Jashore University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh MS – University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia	Samiul is a Ph.D. student in the Chemistry Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His current research focuses on developing affinity-based assays for screening pharmaceutical drugs.
	Nigar Sultana Pinky B.Sc., Noakhali Science and Technology University (Bangladesh) M.Sc., Noakhali Science and Technology University (Bangladesh)	Pinky is a Ph.D. student in the Chemistry Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her current research focuses on the preparation and use of supports for the analysis of the binding of environmental contaminants by affinity chromatography.
	Zoe Zingler B.A. in Chemistry and Environmental & Sustainability Studies (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA 2024)	Zoe Zingler is a Ph.D. student in the Chemistry Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her current research focuses on the analysis of contaminants by affinity chromatography using humic acid columns. She is originally from Nebraska and has been at UNL since fall 2020
	Sanduni Heenkenda B.S. in Chemistry, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka	Sanduni Heenkenda is a Ph.D. student in the Chemistry Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her current research focuses on the design of affinity-based assays for drug interactions and the development of novel affinity supports