Welcome to the Pinkerton Research Group at NYU Tandon

Based in NYU Tandon's Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, the Pinkerton Research Group focuses on developing responsive soft materials for bio-applications ranging from controlled drug delivery to medical imaging.

We are dedicated to creating highly engineered nano-structured biomaterials to address unmet needs in medicine, developing scalable processes to synthesize these complex biomaterials, and training the next generation of chemical engineering leaders in academia and industry.

Research Themes

Designing responsive soft materials for innovative drug delivery approaches.
Developing scalable, continuous flow processes for the synthesis of therapeutic nanoparticles.
Creating tools to study nano-bio interactions in vitro and in vivo.

Recent News

Nov 2025
Nathalie Pinkerton is featured in a NYU Tandon article The Hidden Heroes of Modern Medicine about designing the future of drug delivery. Read the article here!
Nov 2025
Nathalie Pinkerton gives a Bionanotechnology plenary talk at the AIChE 2025 Conference in Boston!
Oct 2025
Our publication Nanomedicines targeting protease-activated receptor 2 in endosomes provide sustained analgesia by is published in PNAS!