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On Sunday, October 11, 2009, Professor
Nicholas Peppas was inducted to the
Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the
National Academy of Sciences along
with the IOM Class of 2008. Previously, he had
been elected to the National Academy of
Engineering (NAE). On Monday, October
12, 2009, the Class of 2009 of new IOM members
was announced. The class includes the former
student and postdoctoral fellow of Professor
Peppas, Professor Kristi Anseth of
the University of Colorado.
Dr. Peppas
was named by the Academy of Medicine,
Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST) as one
of Texas Leading Innovators. The
recognition was announced at the annual meeting
of TAMEST in Austin on January 6, 2011.
Professor Peppas presented an
invited lecture on Molecular and Cellular
Aspects of Transmucosal Protein Delivery at
the Collège de France in Paris. (link)
The Collège de France was
established in 1530 by King Francis I of France. The school's professors are chosen from among
the foremost researchers of the day, with no
requirement other than that of being at the top
of their fields. They are chosen from a variety
of disciplines, in both science and the
humanities.
Professor Nicholas
Peppas was featured as a chemical
engineering educator in the latest issue of the
Chemical Engineering Education
magazine of the ChE Division of ASEE. The
article was written by former students Professor
Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, now Chair of Chemical
Engineering at the University of Florida, and
Christopher Bowman, now Associate Dean of
Engineering at the University of Colorado (link).
The University
of Texas at Austin Department of Biomedical
Engineering is among a consortium of leading
research entities from across the United States
selected to receive up to $11.6 million from the
National Cancer Institute (NCI) to establish a
center to conduct innovative cancer research.
Nicholas Peppas is a co-PI of this
grant. (link)
Professor Nicholas
Peppas and former Ph.D. student
Irma Yolanda Sanchez, now a professor at
the Tecnologico de Monterrey, are featured in a
video about novel glucose-responsive insulin
delivery systems (link).
They received the 2008 Premio Rómulo Garza of
Mexico for this research (link).
Professor Nicholas
Peppas was selected as the recipient of
the 2009 Alan S. Michaels Distinguished
Lectureship in Medical and Biological
Engineering at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology on April 3, 2009. (link)
The history and previous recipients of this
award can be found here. (link)
He spoke about "Recognition and Delivery: The
Next Generation of Medical Microdevices". A
Webcast is available here (link)
and a news article summarizing the lecture is
here. (link)
Former students and colleagues of professor
Nicholas Peppas presented him recently with the
March 2009 issue of the leading journal
Pharmaceutical Research (link)
which contained a Festschrift (link)
on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Edited by
Professor Mark Byrne of Auburn
University (link)
and prefaced by Professor Antonios Mikos
of Rice University (link),
this issue contained 12 review and original
articles on bionanotechnology, biomimetics,
therapeutic conjugates and pharmaceutical
sciences.
On Monday, October 13, 2008,
Professor Nicholas Peppas was
elected a member of the Institute of
Medicine (IOM) of the National
Academy of Sciences (link).
Previously, he had been elected to the
National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
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Professor Peppas will be giving one of
the plenary lectures at the at the First Global
Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and
Biology to be held in Houston on February 7-10,
2010. (link)
Professor Nicholas
Peppas was appointed as the new Chair of
the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the
University of Texas at Austin (link).
Nicholas Peppas
gave the Kewaunee Lectureship in
the Biomedical Engineering Department of Duke
University of Durham, NC on April 23, 2009. (link)
Nicholas Peppas
was selected to the Academy of Chemical
Engineers of the Missouri University of Science
and Technology in Rolla, Missouri on
April 16, 2009. (link)
He presented two lectures on
"Recognition and Delivery: The Next Generation
of Medical Microdevices" and on "Addressing
Educational Problems in an Evolving, Global and
Challenging Chemical Engineering World" during
his induction.
Professors Nicholas Peppas
and Don Paul were selected by the
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
as winners of the 2008 Founders Award for
Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical
Engineering. In 2008, the Institute’s Centennial
year, AIChE also honored two more chemical engineers
with the Founders Award (Professors Morton
Denn of CUNY and Robert Langer of MIT). Presentation
of this award took place at the Institute’s
Honors Ceremony, held during AIChE’s 2008 Annual
Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in
November 2008.
Professors Nicholas
Peppas, George Georgiou, Keith Johnston and
James Fair were selected as four of
the
One Hundred Engineers of
the Modern Era by the
Centennial Committee of the American Institute
of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) on the occasion of
the AIChE Centennial. Official presentation of
this award took place at the annual AIChE
meeting in Philadelphia in November 2008 (link).
The list of One Hundred
Engineers includes also five others
of Professor Peppas' collaborators: former
student Kristi Anseth, Distinguished
Professor at the University of Colorado, and
collaborators Robert Langer, Institute
Professor of MIT, Cato Laurencin, Dean
of Medicine and Vice President at the University
of Connecticut, David Edwards of Harvard
University and Buddy Ratner of the
University of Washington at Seattle. In
addition, his PhD advisor Ed Merrill and
postdoctoral mentor Clark Colton, both of
MIT, are included in the same list.
Nicholas A. Peppas opened the 11th Mediterranean Chemical Engineering
Congress in Barcelona, Spain on October 21, 2008.
(link).
He spoke about the Role of Chemical Engineering
in the Growth of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.
On the occasion of his election to IOM, the
Controlled Release Society published
an interview of Professor Peppas
with the CRS Newsletter editors. The interview
covered numerous points related to the history
of the field and Peppas' contributions to the
rational design of drug delivery systems. It was
published in the January issue of this
newsletter. (link)
Nicholas A. Peppas
opened the international meeting on Chemistry and
21st Century Challenges: Science and Innovation
in Sofia, Bulgaria on September 12, 2008.(link)
He spoke about the Design of Functional and Intelligent
Polymeric Carriers for Improved Cellular Transport
and Biorecognition.
Professor Peppas
has been appointed Associate Editor
of the AIChE Journal effective
September 1, 2008 (link).
Nicholas Peppas
has been elected to the Board of the
Biomedical Engineering Society for the
period 2008-11 (link).
Nicholas Peppas was selected as the recipient
of the 2008 Pierre Galletti Award of the
American Institute for Medical and Biological
Engineering. The Pierre Galletti Award is considered
the most prestigious award in biomedical engineering.
Peppas was recognized "for seminal contributions
and visionary leadership in biomaterials science
and engineering, and for pioneering work on drug
delivery that has led to numerous biomedical products
or devices". (link)
Nicholas Peppas has
been
elected a Fellow of the American Society for
Engineering Education (ASEE) in recognition
of his commitment and excellence in engineering
education. The official induction took
place at the ASEE meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, on
Wednesday, June 25, 2008. (link)
Nicholas Peppas was elected a Fellow
of the Materials Research Society (MRS)
in the 2008 inaugural class of Fellows. This new
grade recognizes a few MRS members who are
notable for their distinguished research accomplishments
and their outstanding contributions to the advancement
of materials research, world-wide. The official
induction took place on March 26 during the MRS
meeting in San Francisco. (link)
At the 8th World Congress of
Biomaterials in Amsterdam (May 2008) Nicholas
Peppas was elected President of the International
Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and
Engineering. His term is from 2008 to 2012
(link).
The IUSBSE is a body that brings together national
and multi-national groups dedicated to the advancement
of biomaterials, surgical implants, prosthetics,
artificial organs, tissue engineering and regenerative
medicine. It currently includes members from Canada,
the United States, the European Union, China, Japan,
Korea, India, Australia and Latin America.
Nicholas Peppas has been selected as a Highly
Cited ResearcherSM by ISIHighlyCited.com
of Thomson Scientific and the Institute of Scientific
Information. Being acknowledged as a Highly Cited
Researcher means that an individual is among the
250 most cited researchers for their published articles.
Citation is a direct measure of influence on the
literature of a subject, and it is also a strong
indicator of scientific contribution, since it is
derived from pattern of interaction among millions
of published articles. (link)
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