Nicholas A. Peppas, Ph.D.

Career Achievements

1974 Earned Sc.D. in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1976 Joined Purdue University as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

1976 Developed the Earliest Freezing-Thawing Poly(vinyl Alcohol) Gels

1977 Director of Polymers Science and Engineering Laboratories

1978 Shreve Prize, Best Chemical Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1978 Potter Award, Best Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1978 Promoted to Associate Professor at Purdue University

1978 Developed PVA Gels for Articular Cartilage Replacement

1979 Developed First Materials for Vocal Cord Replacement

1980 Shreve Prize, Best Chemical Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1980 Western Electric Award, American Society for Engineering Education

1980 Plenary Lecturer, European Controlled Release Symposium, Geneva, Switzerland

1981 Director of the Biomaterials and Drug Delivery Laboratories

1982 Appointed Editor of the journal Biomaterials

1982 Shreve Prize, Best Chemical Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1982 Named Best Student Councelor by AIChE

1982 Promoted to Full Professor at Purdue University

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

1982 Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland

1983 Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology

1983 Published Biomaterials: Interfacial Phenomena and Applications with S Cooper, A Hoffman and B Ratner

1983 Published the Exponential Equation for Drug Release

1983 With C. Reinhart Published the Solute Diffusion Theory in Gels

1984 C.M.A. Stine, Materials Engineering and Sciences Award, AIChE

1984 With N. Franson Developed the Swelling Interface Number for Solute and Drug Transport in Swellable Systems

1984 Developed the First pH-Sensitive Release Systems

1985 Shreve Prize, Best Chemical Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1985 Potter Award, Best Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1985 Published the First Contribution on Bioadhesion with P Buri

1986 Plenary Lecturer, Fourth APGI Conference on Pharmaceutical Technology, Paris

1986 Published the classic monograph Hydrogels in Medicine and Pharmacy

1986 Visiting Professor at the University of Paris, France

1987 McCabe Distinguished Lecturer, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

1987 Inaugural Lecturer, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

1987 Visiting Professor at the University of Parma, Italy

1987 Elected President of the Controlled Release Society

1988 Curtis McGraw Award for Outstanding Research under 40 years of age, ASEE

1988 Minnetonka Distinguished Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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

1989 Published One Hundred Years of Chemical Engineering

1990 Fellow, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists

1991 Named Polymer Science Pioneer by the Journal Polymer News

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

1991 Founders Award for Outstanding Research, Controlled Release Society

1991 Distinguished Lecturer, University of Toronto, Toronto

1991 Named Editor, European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

1992 Founding Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering

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

1993 Plenary Lecturer, World Congress of Biomaterials, Berlin, Germany

1993 Elected Showalter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, youngest distinguished professor of the University

1993 Published Pulsatile Drug Delivery: Current Applications and Future Trends with R. Gurny and H. Junginger

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

1993 Nichiban Distinguished Lecturer, Tokyo, Japan

1993 Plenary Lecturer, Materials Research Society

1994 Shreve Prize, Best Chemical Engineering Teacher, Purdue University

1994 Visiting Professor at Hoshi University, Tokyo, Japan

1994 Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

1994 Food, Pharmaceuticals and Bioengineering Award, AIChE

1994 Published Superabsorbent Polymers: Science and Technology with F. Buchholz

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

1994 Hoshi Distinguished Lecturer, Tokyo, Japan

1994 Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Pharmaceutical Sciences, APV

1995 Published Biopolymers with R. Langer

1996 Visiting Professor at the University of Naples, Italy

1997 Elected Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

1997 Plenary Lecturer, Japanese Drug Delivery Society, Japan

1997 Plenary Lecturer, Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, Japan

1997 Elected Fellow, American Physical Society

1998 With K. Keys Published New Star Polymer Based Gels

1999 Developed New Method of Oral Insulin Delivery with A. Lowman

1998 Plenary Lecturer, 90th Anniversary Meeting, AIChE, Miami

1999 Received Honorary Doctorate from the University of Ghent, Belgium

1999 Received Honorary Doctorate and Pharm. D. from the University of Parma, Italy

1999 Director of the National Science Foundation Program on Therapeutic and Diagnostic Devices

1999 Research Achievement Award in Pharmaceutical Technology, American Association

of Pharmaceutical Scientists

1999 Appointed Editor of Advances in Chemical Engineering

1999 Plenary Lecturer, Drug Delivery for the Third Millennium, Italy

1999 Elected Director of AIChE

2000 Announced the First Micropatterned Molecularly Imprinted Systems for Glucose and Cholesterol Recognition

2000 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

2000 Bayer Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh

2000 Received Honorary Doctorate from the University of Athens, Greece

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

2000 Herbert McCoy Award, Highest Research Achievement, Purdue University

2000 Plenary Lecturer, North American Membrane Society Meeting, Boulder, Colorado

2000 General Electric, Senior Research Award, Highest Research Achievement in Engineering, ASEE

2000 Published new Handbook of Controlled Release , M. Dekker

2001 Mercator Visiting Professor at the Free University of Berlin

2001 Visiting Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela

2001 Visiting Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid

2001 Introduced the Importance of Molecular Imprinting in Drug Delivery for the First Time at the 6th International Symposium on Polymers for Advanced Technologies in Eilat, Israel.

2002 Awarded the Chorafas Foundation Award for Best Dissertation

2002 Received the Sigma Xi Award, the highest Purdue research recognition, Purdue University

2002 Elected President of the Society for Biomaterials

2002 Plenary Lecturer, Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting, Houston.

2002 Plenary Lecturer, 29th International Symposium of Controlled Release of Bioactive Agents, Seoul, Korea.

2002 Named Pioneer in Biomedical Engineering by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

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

2002 Named Newsmaker of the Year by the American Chemical Society for the Oral Insulin Delivery Research

2002 Plenary Lecturer, World Meeting on Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, Florence, Italy.

2002 Merck Distinguished Lecturer, Rutgers University.

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

2002 Named Outstanding Chemical Engineer by the School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, for 26 Years of Service

2002 Received the Distinguished Service Award by the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, for 11 Years of Service

2002 At the end of 2002 he left Purdue University after 26 1/2 years in the faculty there

2003 In January 2003, he started a new career at the University of Texas at Austin

2003 Received the Capsugel Award of the Controlled Drug Delivery

2003 Harry G. Fair Distinguished Lecturer, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

2003 Larson-Ruth Distinguished Lecturer, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

2003 Received the Nagai Foundation Award for Research

2003 Founder and First Chair of the "Bionanotechnology" Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers

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

2004 With Mike Sefton Published "Molecular and Cellular Foundations of Biomaterials", Academic Press

2004 Gattefossé Lecturer, Gattefossé Meeting, Lyon, France

2004 Received the Research Excellence Award for Best Research Paper by the University of Texas, for a paper published during his first complete year (2003) at Texas

2004 With Mark Byrne and Zach Hilt, he Invented New Intelligent Recognitive Processes

2005 Elected one of 26 Inaugural Fellows of the Biomedical Engineering Society

2005 Plenary Lecturer, European Polymer Congress, Moscow, Russia

2005 Plenary Lecturer, Society for Biomaterials Meeting, Memphis, TN

2005 Plenary Lecturer, Third World Congress on Drug Absorption, Transport and Delivery, Barcelona, Spain.

2005 Plenary Lecturer, Annual event of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Washington, DC

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

2005 Received the Founders Award of the Society for Biomaterials

2005 Elected Member of the French Academy of Pharmacy (Académie Nationale de Pharmacie), only the second US engineer to be elected member of this Academy

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

2006 Appointed Consulting Editor of "Pharmaceutical Research", the premier journal in the field

2006 Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

2006 Elected to the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas

2006 Received the Dow Chemical Engineering and Lectureship Award of the American Society for Engineering Education

2006 Received the Best Paper Award of the European Controlled Release Meeting

2006 Invented Novel Recognitive Drug Delivery Systems

2006 With Mathilde Boudes and Daniel Carr, he Invented Novel Polymer Carriers for Improved Oral Protein Delivery

2006 Received the William H. Walker Award, the highest recognition of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers

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

2006 With Zach Hilt, he Founded "Mimetic Solutions LLC" Based on Inventions of Novel Intelligent Delivery Systems

2007 Received the Career Research Excellence Award at the University of Texas, first engineer eve to receive this award

2007 Plenary Lecturer, Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2007 With Zach Hilt and Brock Thomas, he Published "Nanotechnology in Therapeutics: Current Technology and Applications", Horizon Press, the first comprehensive book in the field

2007 With Carolyn Bayer, he Invented Recognitive and Conductive Polymers for bioMEMs Applications

2007 Voted as the Most Outstanding ChE Faculty Member by the Engineering Student Council, University of Texas

2007 Founded "Advanced Therapeutic Design"

2007 Selected as the 56th Institute Lecturer of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. only the second biomaterials/drug delivery researcher to be so honored

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