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Awards and Honors

2007 Institute Lecturer, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

2007 Career Research Excellence Award, University of Texas

2007 Most Outstanding ChE Faculty Member, Engineering Student Council, University of Texas

2006 Jay Bailey Award, Biological Engineering Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

2006 William H. Walker Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

2006 Elected Chair of College of Fellows, American Institute of Medical And Biological Engineering

2006 Consulting Editor, Pharmaceutical Research

2005 Inaugural Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society

2005 Best Paper Award, International Meeting of the Microencapsulation Society

2005 Distinguished Scientist Award, Houston Society of Engineering in Medicine and Biology

2005 Founders Award of the Society for Biomaterials

2005 Whitaker Graduate Student Award, Society for Biomaterials

2005 Elected Member of the French Academy of Pharmacy (Académie Nationale de Pharmacie)

2004 Research Excellence Award for Best Research Paper (highest UT research recognition), Univ Texas

2003 Materials Research Society Graduate Research Award

2003 Capsugel Award for Best Graduate Student Research in Controlled Drug Delivery

2003 Nagai Foundation Award for Research

2003 Appointed to the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Board to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

2002 Outstanding Chemical Engineer Award, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University

2002 Distinguished Service Award, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University

2002 Dale E. Wurster Award in Pharmaceutics, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists

2002 Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Research, Biomedical Engineering Society

2002 Graduate Student Award of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

2002 Newsmaker of the Year, American Chemical Society

2002 Graduate Student Award, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

2002 Eurand Award for Outstanding Contributions in Oral Drug Delivery, Controlled Release Society

2002 Pioneer in Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

2002 Elected President-elect of the Society for Biomaterials

2002 Sigma Xi Award, (highest Purdue research recognition), Purdue University

2002 Chorafas Foundation Award for Best Dissertation

2002 Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Materials Research Society

2001 Editor, New Drugs

2001 Mercator Visiting Professor, Free University of Berlin

2001 Visiting Professor, University of Santiago de Compostela

2001 Visiting Professor, Complutense University of Madrid

2000 General Electric, Senior Research Award, American Society for Engineering Education

2000 Herbert McCoy Award (highest Purdue research recognition), Purdue University

2000 J. Heller Award, Best Research for 1999, Controlled Release Society

2000 APV Award, Best Ph.D. Thesis, International Pharmaceutical Association

2000 Best Paper Award, European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

2000 Honorary Doctorate, University of Athens, Greece

2000 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

2000 Elected Director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers

1999 Research Achievement Award in Pharmaceutical Technology, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists

1999 Honorary Doctorate, Doctor of Pharmacy, University of Parma, Italy

1999 Best Paper Award, Midwestern Meeting, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists

1999 Editor, Advances in Chemical Engineering

1999 Marion B. Scott Award, Purdue University

1999 Honorary Doctorate, University of Ghent, Belgium

1998 Best Paper Award, Materials Research Society

1998 Fellow, American Physical Society

1997 Whitaker Best Paper Award, International Society for Artificial Organs

1997 Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

1996 Best Paper Award, Bioengineering Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

1996 Visiting Professor, University of Naples

1996 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Purdue University

1996 Whitaker Best Paper Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

1995 Best Paper Award, Materials Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

1995 Best Paper Award, Bioengineering Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

1995 APV Medal for Distinguished Pharmaceutical Contributions, International Pharmaceutical Association

1994 Best Paper Award, Annual Meeting American Institute of Chemical Engineers

1994 Best Session Award, Annual Meeting American Institute of Chemical Engineers

1994 Award and Honorary Membership, Italian Society of Medicine and Natural Sciences

1994 Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

1994 Fellow, Biomaterials Science and Engineering, Society for Biomaterials

1994 Visiting Professor, Hoshi University

1994 Visiting Professor, Hebrew University

1994 Potter Award, Best Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1994 Shreve Prize, Best Chemical Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1993 Showalter Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

1993 Best Paper Award, Materials Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

1993 Unilever Award, Best Polymer Doctoral Thesis, American Chemical Society

1992 George Westinghouse Award, American Society for Engineering Education

1992 Clemson Award for Basic Research in Biomaterials, Society for Biomaterials

1992 Founding Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering

1992 Best Paper Award, Materials Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

1992 Controlled Release Society, Service Award

1991 Founders Award for Outstanding Research, Controlled Release Society

1991 Victor LaMer Award, Best Colloids Doctoral Thesis, American Chemical Society

1991 Best Graduate Research Paper, Society of Adhesion

1991 Best Paper Award, Midwestern Meeting, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists

1991 Named Polymer Science Pioneer by the Journal Polymer News

1991 Editor, European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

1991 Rene Maurice Gattefossé Medal, Academy of the Alpilles

1990 A.I.Ch.E. Service Award

1990 Fellow, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists

1989 A.I.Ch.E. Service Award

1988 Curtis McGraw Award for Outstanding Research, American Society for Engineering Education

1988 Elected Chairman of the Materials Engineering and Sciences Division of AIChE

1987 Elected President of the Controlled Release Society

1987 Visiting Professor, University of Parma

1986 Visiting Professor, University of Paris XI

1985 Shreve Prize, Best Chemical Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1985 Potter Award, Best Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1985 Controlled Release Society, Service Award

1984 Materials Engineering and Sciences Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

1983 Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology

1982 Zyma Foundation Award for the Advancement of Medical and Biological Sciences

1982 Shreve Prize, Best Chemical Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1982 A.I.Ch.E. National Best Counselor Award

1982 Editor, Biomaterials

1982 Visiting Professor, University of Geneva

1980 Western Electric Fund Award, American Society for Engineering Education

1980 Shreve Prize, Best Chemical Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1980 Contributing Editor, Polymer News

1978 Potter Award, Best Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1978 Shreve Prize, Best Chemical Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1971 Chryssoverghion Award, Best Student, University-wide, N.T.U. Athens

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