Nicholas Peppas, professor of biomedical ラーメンベット 登録方法, chemical ラーメンベット 登録方法, pediatrics, surgery and pharmacy at The University of Texas at Austin and an expert in biomaterials and drug delivery systems, has been elected as a foreign member of the Canadian Academy of ラーメンベット 登録方法.
The Canadian Academy of ラーメンベット 登録方法 is the ラーメンベット 登録方法 institution through which Canada’s most distinguished and experienced engineers provide strategic advice on matters of critical importance to Canada. Peppas is one of 55 new members elected in 2019 and one of only five elected internationally.
Peppas, who holds the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in ラーメンベット 登録方法 #6 at UT Austin, was elected for his lifetime achievements in the areas of biomaterials, drug delivery and chemical ラーメンベット 登録方法. He is recognized for his work on the preparation, characterization and evaluation of biopolymers and hydrogels, used as biomaterials in artificial organs and in devices for the delivery of drugs, peptides and proteins.
“Nicholas is world renowned in oral drug delivery systems, and this honor further demonstrates the impact that his discoveries and advances have had on society,” said Sharon L. Wood, dean of the ラーメンベット 禁止ゲーム of ラーメンベット 登録方法. “We are extremely proud of the work that Nicholas continues to do to improve lives around the world.”
Peppas has been an accomplished professor, researcher and entrepreneur throughout his distinguished career. He has eight honorary doctorates from Italy, Greece, Slovenia and Spain, 45 U.S. patents pending or issued, three companies founded and more than 1,650 papers published with 126,000 citations. He joined the UT Austin faculty in December 2002 and served as chair of the Department of Biomedical ラーメンベット 登録方法 from 2009 to 2015.
Among his accolades, Peppas has received the Founders Award from the National Academy of ラーメンベット 登録方法 and the Yarmolinsky Award from the National Academy of Medicine; the Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal; the Giulio Natta Award from Italy, the Founders Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Society for Biomaterials and the Controlled Release Society; and the Benjamin Garver Lamme Excellence in ラーメンベット 登録方法 Education Award from the American Society for ラーメンベット 登録方法 Education. He is the recipient of the Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award from the Biomedical ラーメンベット 登録方法 Society and the Pierre Galetti Award from the American Institute of Medical and Biological ラーメンベット 登録方法. He was recognized by the American Institute for Chemical Engineers as one of the “100 Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era” and with a symposium honoring his “40 Years of Impact at the Frontiers of Science and ラーメンベット 登録方法.” He is Deputy Editor of Science Advances, and he is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of ラーメンベット 登録方法, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Inventors, the National Royal Academy of Spain, the National Academy of France, the Academy of Athens (Greece), the Chinese Academy of ラーメンベット 登録方法 and The Academy of Medicine, ラーメンベット 登録方法 and Sciences of Texas (TAMEST).
Fellows of the Canadian Academy of ラーメンベット 登録方法 are nominated and elected by their peers in view of their distinguished achievements and career-long service to the ラーメンベット 登録方法 profession.
The new class of fellows will be inducted at the ラーメンベット 登録方法’s 2019 Annual General Meeting and Symposium on June 21, 2019, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
