Mark Andrew Borden (M’04) received the B.S. degree in chemical engineering in 1999 from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering in 2003 from the University of California, Davis. He conducted undergraduate research on competitive protein adsorption in glass capillaries and peptide affinity to immobilized-metal-ion chromatography columns, and he designed and tested an actuator to accurately control surface tension-driven sample aspiration into glass capillaries. His doctoral research involved production and characterization of diblock copolymer bilayer vesicles and modeling and characterization of the gas transport properties, such as oxygen permeability and surface morphology of lipid-coated microbubbles. He is currently a project scientist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Fellow in the Professors for the Future Program at the University of California, Davis.

His current research interests include investigation of the physical properties of condensed multicomponent lipid monolayers and engineering-improved ultrasound contrast agents for applications in molecular imaging and drug delivery.