Wednesday, November 7, 2007: 11:15 AM-12:15 PM
Grand Ballroom A/B/C/D (Salt Palace Convention Center)
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#390 - AIChE Institute Lecture: Le Plus Ça Change...Nanotechnology and Bioengineering in An Evolving Chemical Engineering World (18001)
Professor Nicholas A Peppas, the Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering and Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the College of Pharmacy of the University of Texas at Austin will deliver the 2007 Institute Lecture entitled "Le plus ça change…Nanotechnology and Bioengineering in an Evolving Chemical Engineering World". In his lecture, he will discuss the importance of bioengineering and nanotechnology in a changing chemical engineering world that has always responded to societal needs by providing advanced solutions to important problems. Using recent results from his laboratory as well as those of leading ChE researchers, Peppas will stress how chemistry, coupled with biology and chemical engineering have allowed us to obtain a genetic map of all individuals; understand how diseases and genetic defects occur; develop new chemicals, biomaterials and drugs to treat these diseases; engineer delivery systems that will target drugs and genes to the correct tissues, cells or cell components; noninvasively diagnose and carry out treatment requirements; and create new replacement tissues and organs. Peppas will show the leading position chemical engineering has had in the growth of bioengineering and nanotechnology. Professor Peppas has been a active researcher in chemical, biomedical and polymer engineering in the past 36 years. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the French Academy of Pharmacy, and has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Ghent (Belgium), Parma (Italy) and Athens (Greece). He has published or edited 31 books and is the co-author of more than 1,000 publications and the co-inventor of 35 international patents. An international ambassador of chemical engineering, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Geneva, Paris (Orsay), Parma, Pavia, Naples, Berlin (Free University), Santiago de Compostela, Complutense (Madrid), Hoshi (Tokyo), Hacettepe (Ankara), Athens, Hebrew (Jerusalem), Nanyang University (Singapore) and the California Institute of Technology.
Official:	Nicholas A. Peppas

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