Dr. Nicholas A Peppas, the Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering and professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmaceutics at The University of Texas at Austin, was recently awarded the Distinguished Scientist Award of the Houston Society of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (HSEMB).
The award was presented at the 22nd annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering of the HSEMB, a forum for engineers, scientists and clinicians working in research, development and applications of biomedical technology.
Dr. Peppas is a world authority in the fields of biomaterials, bionanotechnology, molecular recognition processes, feedback controlled biomedical devices, molecular modeling of protein structures in contact with biomaterials and tissues, and controlled drug delivery. He has been at UT Austin since January 2003 and is in charge of the Laboratory of Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Bionanotechnology and Molecular Recognition with more than 20 researchers.
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