Professor and Founding Director
Princeton University, dept. Chemical and Biological Engineering
LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP, New Jersey
Robert Prud'homme is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and founding Director of the Engineering Biology Program at Princeton University. He received his BSE in Chemical Engineering at Stanford.He did his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and . He has served on the Executive Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Materials Science Division. He has also served as the President of the US Society of Rheology (1978-2010). Prior, he was the Director of the Princeton NSF NIRT Center on nanoparticle formation (1b985-1990). His research interests include biopolymer solutions and gels, surfactant mesophases, and polymer/surfactant mixtures. His research has special emphasis on drug delivery and the scalable production of nanoparticles by block-copolymer-directed, rapid precipitations processes. His research has been applied in the delivery of hydrophobic drugs, siRNA, and biologics from nanoparticles, gels, and microparticles by oral, parenteral and aerosol delivery. The confined impinging jet technology developed in his lab is used in all COVID LNP vaccines. It is also used by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to produce drugs for global health applications. He is a fellow in the National Academy of Inventors and the National Academy of Engineers.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM MT