{"id":10860,"date":"2017-02-17T14:15:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10860"},"modified":"2017-05-16T12:49:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T11:49:53","slug":"okorte-dr-uzoma","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okorte-dr-uzoma\/","title":{"rendered":"OKORTE, Dr. Uzoma"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.Sc, Ph.D; engineer, academic, administrator, EDUCATION: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA; CAREER: Research Assistant Polymers Research &#038; Development Department Union Carbide Corporation, A Subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company, Bound Brook,New Jersey, USA; Plant Assistant, Chemical Mixing Department, Union Carbide Corporation; Research Assistant Wire &#038; Cable Compound: Research and Development Dept, Union Carbide Corporation, New Jersey, NJ, USA; Graduate Research Assistant Dept. of Chemical &#038; Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Assistant Professor of Petroleum Chemistry &#038; Engineering, School of Arts&#038; Sciences, AUN currently, mm: National Society of Black Engineers; American Institute of Chemical Engineers; National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists&#038;Chemical Engineers, NOBCChE;;ah: Institute for Medicine&#038;Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA; National Institute of Health Cardiovascular, Predoctoral Training Grant;The NationalAcademiesFordFoundation Doctoral Fellowship Programme for Minorities, (Honourable Mention); National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering &#038; Science Inc.(GEM);Masters&#8217;Engineering Fellow;Has been recognized for her work in novel applications of micro arrays by title American Institute of Chemical Engineers; The American Society of Hematology, and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology; publ: Matrix Protein Micro arrays for Spatially &#038; Compositionally Controlled Microsoft Thrombosis Under Laminar Flow, Biophysical Journal 91:3474-3481; co authour with Denncy WS, Chatterjee MS, Neeves KB &#038; Diamond SL, 2008, Determination of Surface Tissue Factor Thresholds that Trigger Coagulation at Venous &#038; Arterial Shear Rates: Amplification of 100 fm Circulating Tissue Factor Requires Flow, Blood 111:3507-3713 off: Petroleum Chemistry &#038; Engineering, School of Arts&#038; Sciences, American University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa State; e-m: uzoma.okorie@aaun.edu.ng. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,749,2399],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10860","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-administrator","category-engineer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10860"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}