Joseph DeSimone

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Joseph DeSimone (born May 16, 1964 in Morristown, Pennsylvania ) is an American chemist.

DeSimone graduated from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 1986 and a PhD in polymer chemistry from Virginia Tech in 1990 with James E. McGrath . From 1990 he was an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received a full professorship in 1999. There he is William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor (also of chemical engineering at North Carolina State University ) and Chancellor's Eminent Professor .

He developed environmentally friendly polymerization processes based on supercritical carbon dioxide for the production of plastics such as Teflon and other fluoropolymers .

He co-founded Bioadsorbable Vascular Solutions (BVS) with cardiologist Richard Stack (Duke University) to market their invention of fully bioabsorbable stents (which can also deliver drugs). In 2003 the company was taken over by Guidant and the invention has already passed clinical tests. He also works on cancer drugs in his laboratory.

His group pursues the application of the fabrication technology, which is successful in microelectronics on nanoscales, in chemistry and biomedicine. The basis is the PRINT technology (Particle replication in non-wetting templates) developed in his laboratory in 2004 for precise control of production at the nano level.

He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (2014), the National Academy of Sciences (2012), the National Academy of Engineering (2005), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( 2005). In 2008 he received the Lemelson MIT Prize and in 2009 the North Carolina Award (the highest honor in North Carolina). In 2016 he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation and in 2014 the Dickson Prize in Science and the IRI Medal . He was awarded a Heinz Award for 2017, the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research for 2018 and the Wilhelm Exner Medal for 2019 . In 1998 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . Joseph DeSimone also received the US Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in 1997 .

He holds numerous patents. In 2004 he founded Liquida Technologies and later the company Carbon.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
  2. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Joseph M. DeSimone at academictree.org, accessed on January 29, 2018.
  3. ^ PRINT, DeSimone Lab
  4. ↑ Joseph M. DeSimone. In: WilhelmExner.org. Austrian Trade Association (ÖGV), 2019, accessed on February 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME DeSimone, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Morristown, Pennsylvania