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9:23 a.m., April 20, 2009----Mark E. Davis, Warren and Katherine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology and a member of the Experimental Therapeutics Program of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the City of Hope, will deliver the Robert L. Pigford Lecture at 10 a.m., Wednesday, April 29, in 102/103 Colburn Laboratory.
Davis will speak on the topic “Nanoparticle Cancer Therapeutics: From Concept to Clinic.”
Davis has more than 350 scientific publications, two textbooks and more than 50 patents. He is a founding editor of CaTTech and has been an associate editor of Chemistry of Materials and the AIChE Journal.
He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Colburn and Professional Progress Awards from the AIChE and the Ipatieff, Langmuir and Murphree Prizes from the ACS.
Davis was the first engineer to win the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award. He was elected in the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.
His research efforts involve materials synthesis in two general areas: zeolites and other solids that can be used for molecular recognition and catalysis, and polymers for the delivery of a broad range of therapeutics.
He is the founder of Insert Therapeutics Inc., a company that focused on the use of cyclodextrin-containing polymers for drug delivery applications, and Calando Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company that created the first RNAi therapeutic to reach the clinic for treating cancer. He has been a member of the scientific advisory boards of Symyx and Alnylam.
The Robert L. Pigford Lecture is sponsored by UD's Department of Chemical Engineering.