Ashutosh Chilkoti, the Alan L. Kaganov Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.
Chilkoti was recognized for pioneering artificial polypeptides for sustained delivery of protein drugs, developing a method to purify protein drugs and viral vectors without chromatography, creating innovative point-of-care diagnostics and advancing next-generation PEGylation technology designed to avoid immune responses associated with conventional PEG-based drug delivery… Continue reading.