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Dr. Mercedes A. Rivero-Hudec
Professor of Chemical Engineering
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Research Interests
Microbial Pathogenicity.
Effects of Toxic Salts on White Blood Cells.


Research Information
 Dr. Rivero recently joined the chemical engineering faculty. Her research program is in the area of transport phenomena, at molecular an cellular level, with biomedical and environmental applications. Dr. Rivero is interested in the development of theoretical and in vitro models that closely represent actual conditions in vivo, and that allow for systematic and quantitative transport studies.

 Dr. Rivero was a Visiting Fellow in the Chemical Engineering Section of the National Institutes of Health and a faculty member in the Department of Thermodynamics and Transport Phenomena, Universidad Simo n Boli var, Venezuela.


Publications and Patents
No data available.


Education
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1986.
M.Sc. University of Pennsylvania, 1981.
B.S. University Simo n Boli var, 1977.


Posts
Director of Biochemical Engineering Laboratory.


Contact Info
Address: Room 204
Crawford Hall
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI   02881

Telephone:     (401) - 874 - 2271

E-mail: riverom@egr.uri.edu



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