Description: Dr. Joyann Marks is a lecture and researcher (applied chemist). Her research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of Polysaccharide derivatives for biomedical and other applications including packaging, formulation of drug/ polymer dispersion and the study of drug release kinetics using spectroscopic techniques and High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and the application of green chemistry principles to polymer synthesis and derivatization and general analytical investigations using spectroscopic and chromatographic techniques.