Professor Susan Lunte Ph.D.
R.N. Adams Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas
Susan M. Lunte is the Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Director of the Adams Institute for Bioanalytical Chemistry, and Director of the NIH COBRE Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. She received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Kalamazoo College and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry in 1984 from Purdue University. Dr. Lunte served as an associate editor and then Editor-in-Chief of Analytical Methods between 2009-2017 and is currently on the Editorial Board of the Analyst. From 2013-2018 she was a member of the NIH Instrumentation and Systems Development Study Section and served as Chair in 2017-18. Dr. Lunte is a Fellow of the RSC, AAPS, ACS, AAAS and AIMBE. Most recently, she was recipient of the ANACHEM Award in 2018 and the ACS-ANL Roland F. Hirsch Distinguished Service Award in 2021. In 2019 she was a visiting Faculty Fellow at Paris Tech in France as well as the University of Tasmania in Australia. Dr. Lunte's research interests includes the development of new methodologies for separation and detection of peptides, amino acids, neurotransmitters and pharmaceuticals in biological fluids. This includes separation-based sensors for the continuous monitoring of drugs and neurotransmitters in freely roaming animals and new methodologies for the determination of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in cells.