Harrison P. Rahn, PhD

Dr. Rahn comes to ASDRP with experience in drug discovery and organic materials, including prior industrial experience as a polymer chemist at Fluence Analytics. Dr. Rahn received his PhD in Chemistry from Stanford University, where he developed biguanide-based and delivery systems of potent antibiotics for the eradication of antibiotic-resistant biofilm bacteria (Rahn, et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024), dendrimeric systems for antibiotic drug delivery (Chosy, et al. ACS Inf. Disease 2024), and bio-inspired polycationic polymers for cell-type selective mRNA delivery (Rahn, et al. Biomacromolecules 2024). 

While working towards his Master's from Tulane University, Dr. Rahn engineered bioluminescent probes for supramolecular assembly and completed an undergraduate degrees in ecology and evolution with minors in math and physics

The Rahn group at ASDRP will dive into developing new synthetic tools for small molecule Drug Discovery through high-throughput screening and late stage functionalization. Collaboratively, the Rahn group will assist efforts in mRNA delivery and drug discovery across ASDRP with a complementary expertise in creating compounds for selective drug delivery. 

Education:

PhD, Chemistry Stanford University

MS, Chemistry   Tulane University

BS, Chemistry, Ecology & Evolution Tulane University

Areas of Research and Expertise: Drug delivery, organic synthesis, supramolecular chemistry, polymer chemistry, probe design, chromatography free synthesis, moss, karate.