Joseph DeSimone, PhD, a member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been appointed as an adjunct member at New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Cancer Nanocenter. The appointment is part of a strategic alliance aimed at building Sloan-Kettering’s capabilities in nanomedicine and broadening the geographic base of DeSimone’s pioneering work based in North Carolina
Joseph DeSimone, PhD, a member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been appointed as an adjunct member at New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Cancer Nanocenter. The appointment is part of a strategic alliance aimed at building Sloan-Kettering’s capabilities in nanomedicine and broadening the geographic base of DeSimone’s pioneering work based in North Carolina.
DeSimone, who is the Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, and founder of the nanobiotechnology firm Liquidia Technologies, says his appointment will enhance a budding scientific alliance between UNC Lineberger, other institutions in North Carolina and Memorial Sloan-Kettering. For full release