Interview: From traditional polymer science to nanomedicine: the interplay between disciplines to drive innovation

Professor Joseph DeSimone speaks to Hannah Stanwix, Assistant Commissioning Editor Professor Joseph DeSimone attended Ursinus College (PA, USA) where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry. He completed his PhD in Chemistry in 1990 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VA, USA). Professor DeSimone moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH; NC, USA) where he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry until 1994. He was appointed Mary Ann Smith Professor of Chemistry at UNC-CH and Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University (NC, USA) in 1995 and subsequently became William R Kenan Jr Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UNC-CH in 1999. He is currently the Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at UNC-CH and the William R. Kenan Jr Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at NC State. In 2004, Professor DeSimone founded Liquidia Technologies (NC, USA) which received the first ever equity investment by the Bill and Mel...