University of Texas at Austin Professor Nicholas A. Peppas will receive the 2006 James E. Bailey Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Biological Engineering at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in November.
The James E. Bailey Award is awarded to researchers who have had a significant impact on bioengineering and advanced the discipline. Peppas, a professor biomedical engineering, chemical engineering and pharmaceutics, is receiving the award for his distinguished record of service to the field.
The James E. Bailey Award, which is now in its second year, is given by the Society of Biological Engineering, an AIChE technological community. Professor Robert S. Langer of MIT and Professor Emeritus Edwin N. Lightfoot of the University of Wisconsin-Madison are also 2006 recipients
Peppas will also receive the 2006 William H Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature, the highest award the institute gives to a chemical engineer, at the conference.
Peppas, the Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering, is a world authority in pharmaceutical sciences and controlled drug delivery. He is recognized as the father of modern drug delivery and pioneered work on sustained and controlled release systems, or delivery of drugs and proteins in the body.
He earned his Sc.D. (doctorate of science) in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. Peppas joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin in 2003 and directs the Laboratory of Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Bionanotechnology and Molecular Recognition. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the nation's highest honor for engineering professionals.
Photos of Peppas are available at: http://www.engr.utexas.edu/news/action_shots/pages/NAEInductee2006.cfm
For more information about other University of Texas at Austin engineering professors receiving awards at the November AIChE conference, visit: http://www.engr.utexas.edu/news/articles/200606271066/index.cfm
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