Event
Bioengineering Seminar Series: Dennis Discher
Friday, November 11, 2016
9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Pepco Room (1105), Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
Dr. Silvia Muro
muro@umd.edu
Dennis Discher
Robert D. Bent Professor
Director, NCI Physical Sciences Oncology Center
University of Pennsylvania
Nano/Meso-scale principles and applications with flexibility: From delivery and self-recognition to differentiation
Abstract TBA
About the Speaker
Dennis E. Discher is the Robert D. Bent chaired Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the Director of the NCI Physical Sciences Oncology Center at Penn. He is an elected member of both the US National Academy of Medicine and US National Academy of Engineering - Bioengineering. He holds appointments in the School of Engineering Applied Science and Graduate Groups in Cell & Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, and Physics. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco in 1993, and has been at Penn since 1996. He has coauthored more than 200 publications with over 37,000 citations that range in topic from mechanobiology of stem cells and nuclei to immune recognition of ‘Self’ and self-assembling polymers in application to disease, with papers appearing in Science, Cell, PNAS, and various Nature journals. Honors and Service include a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the US-National Science Foundation, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award from the Humboldt Foundation of Germany, and membership on the Editorial Board for Science.
