October 28, 2009
Joseph DeSimone, PhD, a professor in department of chemistry and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, will receive the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor in the state, on October 29.
DeSimone is the Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences and holds a joint appointment in the School’s Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics. His research focuses on nanomedicine and drug delivery. He has developed techniques for mass-producing custom-made micro- and nanoparticles tailored to have specific sizes, shapes and surface properties. That technology, known as PRINT (Particle Replication in Non-wetting Templates), is exclusively licensed to a UNC spin-off company in Research Triangle Park. DeSimone recently received the Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health to support efforts to build on his research and develop new methods to safely and effectively deliver promising biological therapeutics to specific locations in the body.
DeSimone and five others will receive the North Carolina Award from Governor Bev Perdue and Linda A. Carlisle, the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources Secretary in a ceremony at the N.C. Museum of History.
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