In 1999, the faculty of the University of Parma, Italy, awarded an honorary doctorate to Prof. Nicholas Peppas. Here Peppas gives his inaugural doctoral lecture in Italian at the October 13, 1999 gathering of the faculty. (October 1999)

Following the ceremony of awarding the doctorate honoris causae to Professor Peppas, several Italian colleagues, collaborators and friends gather for a photograph. From left: Professor Flavio Forni of the University of Modena, Professor Ubaldo Conte of the University of Pavia, Professor Paolo Colombo of the University of Parma, Professor Nicholas Peppas wearing the doctoral cup and gown of the University of Parma, Professor Franco Barbato of the University of Naples, Professor Maria Immacolata LaRotonda of the University of Naples, Professor Andrea Gazzaniga of the University of Milan and Professor Ruggero Bettini of the University of Parma. Our laboratory has collaborated with the laboratories of all the professors above and more than 45 publications have been published (October 13, 1999)

From the retirement meeting of Prof. F. Puisieux (Paris) (October 1999)

Banquet at the Third Central European Symposium on Pharmaceutical Technology in Portoroz, Slovenia. From left: Prof Atilla Hincal of Haceteppe University of Ankara, Turkey, Prof Julijana Kristl of the University of Ljubliana, Slovenia, N Peppas and Prof. Ubaldo Conte of the University of Pavia, Italy (September 23, 1999)

Lunch with faculty of the University of Ghent before the Honorary Doctorate ceremony at the University of Ghent, Belgium. From left: Prof. Jo Demeester who made the nomination, Prof Peppas, Prof. Gilbert Froment (a distinguished chemical engineer and NAE member), ?, Prof Lisa Brannon-Peppas and Prof Etienne Schacht (March 19, 1999).

In 1999, the faculty of the University of Ghent, Belgium, awarded an honorary doctorate to Prof. Nicholas Peppas. Here, the four honorees including Dr Peppas at the March 19, 1999 gathering of the faculty. (March 1999)

On August 8, 1998 about 100 hundred former students and friends gathered in Indianapolis for a surprise party in honor of Prof Peppas’ 50th birthday (the actual date being two weeks later). Here from the banquet at Sullivan’s (from left) Prof Balaji Narasimhan of Iowa State University and Prof Mike Sefton of the University of Toronto.

Professors A. LaManna (Pavia), U. Conte (Pavia) and N. Peppas (May 1998)

A gathering of former students of the Peppas laboratory at the Purdue hospitality suite of the 1997 AIChE meeting in Los Angeles, CA on November 18, 1997. From left: Dr Flemming Madsen (now of Colorplast, Humlebaek, Denmark), Chris Bowman (now Associate Dean of Engineering, University of Colorado), Matt Helmkamp (now with Rohm and Haas Company, Deer Park, TX), Prof Lisa Brannon-Peppas, Dr Becky Ficek-Fredrickson (now a practicing ophthalmologist, Northwest Eye Associates, Houson, TX), Prof Kristi Anseth (now distinguished professor at the University of Colorado), Prof Alec Scranton (now Associate Dean of Engineering at the University of Iowa), Dr Richard Korsmeyer (now Global Head of Licensing with Pfizer), Nicholas Peppas, Tony Lowman (now Associate Dean of Engineering at Drexel University), Kairali Podual-Banerjee (now with BioArray Solutions in Piscataway, NJ), Prof Surya Mallapragada (now professor at the Iowa State University), Adam Turk (then a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University), Jennifer Sinclair Curtis (Head of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida) and Prof Balaji Narasimhan (Associate Dean of Engineering at Iowa State University).

From the banquet of the Japanese Drug Delivery Systems (DDS) Society Meeting in Sapporo, Japan. Sitting left Professor Kazinori Kataoka (University of Tokyo) and Teruo Okano (Tokyo Women’s Hospital), the two most prominent Japanese biomaterials scientists. (July 11, 1996).

Professors Peppas, Lisa Brannon-Peppas, and Tsuneji Nagai (Hoshi University, Tokyo) with the background of Fuji-yama (Mount Fuji) (July 1996)

From the banquet of the 23rd International Symposium on Controlled Release of Bioactive Materials, Kyoto, Japan, July 9, 1996. From left: Nicholas Peppas (1987-88 President of CRS), Lisa Brannon-Peppas (1996-98 Treasurer of CRS), Gordon Amidon (Univ Michigan, 1994-95 President of CRS and 1998-99 President of AAPS). Les Benet (Univ California at San Francisco, 1986-87 President of AAPS), Thomas Kissel (Univ of Marburg, 1998-99 President of CRS) and Tsuneji Nagai (1995-96 President of CRS) (July 1996)

25th Reunion of the 1971 Chemical Engineering graduating class of the National Technical University of Athens at Vouliagmeni, Attica. First row: Olga Kitsou, Anna Blatsi, Maria Madaraka, Nikos Peppas, Angela Ladia, Danae Doulia and Costas Karetzopoulos Second row: Elias Kampakas, Costas Lamnatos, Andreas Andritsos, Sokrates Rokotas, Artemis Bamiha and Antonis Zioudas Third row: Costas Kavalieratos, Costas Theologou, Costas Konstantinoglou, Costas Kiparissigis, Manolis Nomikos, Kyriakos Masavetas, Nikos Fragiadakis and Nikso Arabatzis (July 1996)

Spanish Portuguese Conference on Controlled Drug Delivery, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 25, 1995. From left: Rogerio Gaspar (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Jindrich Kopecek (University of Utah), Pavla Kopeckova (University of Utah), Robert Gurny (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Maria Jose Alonso (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Bonna and Joe Robinson (University of Wisconsin), Hans Junginger (then University of Leiden, the Netherlands), Jose Luis Vila Jato (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Nicholas Peppas and Dolores Torres (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) (September 1995)

Spanish Portuguese Conference on Controlled Drug Delivery, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 25, 1995. From left standing: Jindrich Kopecek (University of Utah), Rogerio Gaspar (University of Lisbon, Portugal); sitting: Nicholas Peppas, Pavla Kopeckova (University of Utah), Paolo Colombo (University of Parma, Italy) and Tsuneji Nagai (Hoshi University, Japan) (September 1995).

Santiago de Compostela, Spain
NAP, Paolo Colombo (Univ of Parma, Italy) and Tsuneji Nagai (Hoshi University, Tokyo, Japan) (September 1995)

International Symposium on Biomedical Polymers in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Prof. Tsuruta
Kozo Takayama (Professor at Hoshi University), Nicholas A Peppas, Teiji Tsuruta (Professor at the University of Tokyo and Teruo Okano (Professor at the Tokyo Women’s College) in Tokyo (April 20, 1995)

Visit to the Hoshi University, Tokyo, Japan
From left: Prof. Kozo Takayama, Prof. Mariko Morishita, Nicholas A Peppas, Obata-san, Prof. Tsuneji Nagai and Prof. Yoshie Maitani (April 1995)

From a dinner of chemical engineers at the 1994 AIChE
meeting in San Francisco, CA.
From left: Professors Andreas Acrivos (Stanford and CUNY), Lisa Brannon-Peppas, Nicholas Peppas and George Gavalas (CalTech). (November 1994)

Induction of Professor Peppas as an Honorary Member of the Italian Society of Medicine and Natural Sciences. From left: professor Paolo Colombo, Professor Anacleto Peracchia (1929-2000, President of the Society), Professor Tullo Vitali (1925-2007, Dean of the University of Parma) and Professor Peppas (October 1994)

21st International Symposium on Controlled Release of Bioactive Materials, Nice, France Editorial Board meeting of the journal STP Pharma Sciences (Editions Sante). From left: Prof. Jose Luis Vila Jato (University of Santiago de Compostela), Nicholas Peppas, Pierre Buri (University of Geneva), Prof. Aldo LaManna (University of Pavia), Prof. Clive Wilson (then University of Nottingham, now University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) (June 29, 1994)

Cygnus dinner hosted at the Controlled Release Society Meeting, Nice, France From left: Lisa Brannon-Peppas (then President of Biogel Technology, and Treasurer of CRS), Nabuko Cleary, Gordon Amidon (CRS President, University of Michigan), Ann Pearlman, Begoña Charro-Guy, Richard Guy (now Professor at the University of Bath, UK), and Rodney Pearlman (June 1994)

Cygnus dinner at the 21st International Symposium on Controlled Release of Bioactive Materials, the Controlled Release Society meeting , in Nice, France, June 29, 1994. From left: Nicholas Peppas, Gordon Amidon (University of Michigan) and Mrs Amidon, Nabuko Cleary, Gary Cleary (Founder and then CTO of Cugnus), Lisa Brannon-Peppas, Richard Guy (then of UC San Francisco and now of the University of Bath), Rodney Perlman and Ann Perlman. (June 1994)

A visit to the University of Parma. Since the late 1970s, PhD students of the Peppas laboratories were doing internships in European and Japanese Universities and companies. Here (from left): Professor Paolo Colombo, Patrizia Santi (now a professor at Parma), Surya Mallapragada (now a professor of chemical engineering at the Iowa State University), Chris Brazel (now professor of chemical engineering at the University of Alabama) and Dr Alessia deAscentiis who did a portion of her PhD in the Peppas laboratories. Alessia was the first one to observe the importance of chain interprenetration as a method to promote mucosal adhesion of polymer carriers. (April 1994)

Israeli Institute of Chemical Engineers Meeting, Beer-sheva, Israel
From left: Bob Wellek (NSF manager), Nicholas Peppas, Jaime Wisniak (former President of Ben-Gurion University) (March 1994)

Symposium Celebrating the 70th Birthday of Edward W Merrill of MIT

Nicholas Peppas speaking while Clark Colton and Ed Merrill of MIT are attending (October 1993)

Transdermal Delivery Systems Meeting sponsored by Cygnus and Ichiban, Tokyo, Japan

Vince Lee (Dean at the Univ South California), Ross Potts (Cygnus), Nicholas Peppas, Gary Cleary (CTO of Cygnus, now CEO of Corium International), Nabuko Cleary, Nicholas Peppas (May 1993)

Transdermal Delivery Systems Meeting sponsored by Cygnus and Ichiban, Tokyo, Japan

Front row middle: Vince Lee (Dean of Pharmacy at the Univ South California) Back row middle: Gary Cleary (CTO of Cygnus, now CEO of Corium International), Ross Potts, Nabuko Cleary, Nicholas Peppas (May 1993)

Celebration of Allan Hoffman’s 60th Birthday with Scientific meeting at the Westin Hotel, Maui, HI
Front table (from left): Sung Wan Kim (Univ of Utah), Pavla Kopecková (Univ Utah), Jindrich Kopecek (Univ Utah), Jen Feijen (Twente Inst Technology, Enschede, Netherlands), Jim Anderson (with his back to the camera, Case Western Reserve University) Back table: Allan Hoffman (Univ Washington, standing), Claudio Migliaresi (Univ Trento, Italy), Michel Vert (Univ Montpellier, France) (December 1992)

CRS Workshop on Biomaterials and Controlled Release, Jupiter Beach, FL, From left: ?, Jindrich Kopecek (Univ of Utah), Nicholas Peppas, Elazar Edelman (MIT HST Program), Jorge Heller (then at SRI International), Allan Hoffman (Univ Washington), Dan Daniels and Robert Levy (then Univ Michigan) (January 1992)

First US-Japan Drug Delivery Meeting in Maui, HI, at the Royal Lahaina hotel with Bob and Laura Langer (December 1991)

Academie des Alpilles, St Rémy en Provence, France. Participants to the meeting including Prof Françoise Falson-Rieg (sitting in the middle, now Professor at the University of Lyon, and Drs Lisa Brannon-Peppas and Nicholas Peppas) (May 1991)