James Harwood

James Harwood is from San Clemente, California, and is a Senior undergraduate honors student at the University of Alabama majoring in Chemical Engineering and in the Emerging Scholars Research Program. He has been accepted for the Fall 2024 term to get his MBA at the Culverhouse College of Business under his four-year Presidential Scholarship. After graduating from the University of Alabama with his MBA, James plans on applying to a Graduate or Ph.D. program in Chemical Engineering/Chemistry or a related field.  During the Summer of 2023, James used his critical thinking and problem-solving skills learned at the drug delivery Lab to complete research under an NSF-IRES program at the Polymat Institute in San Sebastian, Spain. He joined the Kumar Lab in December 2021 and is currently working on designing effective therapies for acute kidney injury.