Kyle Broaders

Kyle Broaders earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, designing and synthesizing responsive materials for drug delivery and cancer immunotherapy. During his postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco, he developed techniques to prepare geometrically complex surfaces to study the interplay between substrate geometry and cellular behavior. At Mount Holyoke College, his research group is focused on the design and synthesis of responsive polymeric biomaterials that can influence or be influenced by biological environments.

Broaders and his group use techniques from organic, polymer, and materials chemistry to make biologically derived materials that change their properties based on chemical or physical triggers like oxidation, change in pH, light, or temperature. Specific applications of our work include immunotherapy, drug delivery, biosensors, and biodegradable plastics.

Broaders teaches General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, upper-level electives in Chemical Biology and Organic Synthesis, and a broader audience elective called Scientific Illustration and Data Visualization.