Suzie H. Pun is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington. She received her BS degree in chemical engineering at Stanford University. For her graduate work, she developed polymeric materials for gene delivery and obtained her PhD degree in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology under the guidance of Mark E. Davis in 2000. She then worked at Insert Therapeutics Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.) as a senior scientist before joining the faculty at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on synthetic gene and drug delivery systems.

Pun is the recipient of a Career Development Award from the National Hemophilia Foundation (2004), a Young Investigator Award from the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (2005), and an NSF CAREER Award (2005).

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