Peppas is recognized for establishing the quantitative principles for describing drug release from porous matrices and hydrogels, and his subsequent work in biomaterials and bionanotechnology, which have spawned many biomedical breakthroughs.
The January issue of the journal Bioengineering & Translational Medicine (BioTM) has honored Nicholas Peppas, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, as well as UT Austin’s Dell Medical School and College of Pharmacy.
The journal, published on behalf of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and Society for Biological Engineering, has dedicated the issue to Nicholas Peppas "for game-changing contributions to drug delivery and biomaterials.”
Peppas, who holds the Cockrell Family Regents Chaired Professorship in Engineering, is recognized for establishing the quantitative principles for describing drug release from porous matrices and hydrogels, and his subsequent work in biomaterials and bionanotechnology, which have spawned many biomedical breakthroughs.
Peppas is honored alongside his colleague Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Langer is recognized for the invention of many new biomedical technologies for drug delivery and pioneering tissue engineering techniques for regenerative medicine.
"It's a privilege to honor Nicholas Peppas and Robert Langer in a special issue of BioTM,” said the publication’s editor-in-chief Samir Mitragotri. “These two pioneers of drug delivery and biomaterials established the vision for the field, and brought it to the forefront through scholarly research, innovative technologies and inspirational mentorship to several generations of trainees.”
The January 2019 tribute issue of BioTM (Vol. 4, Issue 1) contains research articles from some of Langer's and Peppas's former students, as well as colleagues and admirers. The issue is freely available to read, download and share from Wiley Online Library.
