Emerging Technology and Best Practices Seminar Series

Nanotechnology in Medicine: From Diagnostics to Therapeutics

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Mark Grinstaff, Ph.D.

BIO

Mark W. Grinstaff is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry at Boston University. Mark received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois under the mentorship of Professor Kenneth S. Suslick and was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology with Professor Harry B. Gray. Mark's awards include the ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award, NSF Career Award, Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and given more than 175 oral presentations. He is a co-founder of three companies that are commercializing his ideas. His current research activities involve the synthesis of new macromolecules and amphiphiles, self-assembly chemistry, tissue engineering, drug delivery, and nanotechnology.