University of Cincinnati
David Wendell is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati in the School of Energy, Environmental, Biological and Medical Engineering. Dr. Wendell received his BS and MS from Cornell University in Biological and Environmental Engineering and his PHD in Biomedical Engineering from UCLA.
His current work spans several different areas of nanobiological science including protein based nanopores; repurposed microbial multidrug efflux pumps for bioremediation; grey water risk assessment using human mitochondrial DNA and most notably, artificial photosynthesis, research which recently garnered him the 2010 International Earth Award.