Kathryn Whitehead

Professor Whitehead joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in 2012. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware in 2002 and her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2007. As a graduate student in the laboratory of Samir Mitragotri, Professor Whitehead developed systems for the oral delivery of macromolecules. From 2008 - 2012, she trained as a postdoc with Bob Langer in the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. There, she developed biomaterials and methodologies for the advancement of RNA interference therapeutics. Professor Whitehead is a native Pennsylvanian, having grown up in Allentown.