Joseph A. Zasadzinski

Joseph A. Zasadzinski
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology (BS) University of Minnesota (PhD)
Known for	Designing vesosomes for drug delivery
Scientific career
Fields	Chemical engineering
Institutions	University of California, Santa Barbara University of Minnesota
Thesis	Liquid crystal structure by electron microscopy  (1985)
Doctoral advisors	Howard Davis L. E. Scriven
Notable students	Sarah L. Keller (post-doc)

Joseph A. Zasadzinski is an American chemical engineer and a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota where he holds the 3M Harry Heltzer Chair of Multidisciplinary Science and Technology since 2011. ^[1]

Education

He received a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1980. He was award a PhD in the same field after working under the supervision of professors Howard Davis and L. E. Scriven. ^[2] After receiving his doctorate, Zasadzinski spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at the AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Career

In 1986, Zasadzinski joined the chemical engineering faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He left UCSB in 2011 to return to the University of Minnesota to join the faculty there. ^[3]

Zasadzinski is on the editorial board of the Biophysical Journal. ^[4]

He was awarded the status of Fellow ^[5] in the American Physical Society, ^[6] after he was nominated by his Division of Biological Physics in 2008, ^[7] for "applying physical principles of self-assembly, directed assembly and bio-mimicry to create well-controlled lipid structures such as unilamellar vesicles and "vesosomes" for biomedical applications such as targeted drug-delivery vehicles and treatments for respiratory diseases, and for developing new microscopies." ^[7]

Awards

• 1993 Burton Award of the Microscopy Society of America ^[8]
• 2004 American Chemical Society Award in Colloid and Surface Science ^[9]
• 2008 Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Biological Physics ^[10]
• 2013 Avanti Award in Lipids of the Biophysical Society ^[11]

References

1. Zasadzinski, Joseph. "Prof. Joseph Zasadzinski". University of Minnesota.
2. Zasadzinski, Joseph A. (1985). Liquid crystal structure by electron microscopy (Thesis). University of Minnesota. OCLC   223675095.
3. "New nanoscale imaging may lead to new treatments for multiple sclerosis". ScienceDaily . May 27, 2011.
4. Loew, Leslie M.; Staehle, Beth (January 10, 2017). "2017 Ushers in New Editorial Board Members and More". Biophysical Journal . 112 (1): E01 –E02. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2016.12.014. PMC   5232859 . PMID   28076821.
5. "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.^{[ dead link ]}
6. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.^{[ dead link ]}
7. "APS Fellows 2008". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.^{[ dead link ]}
8. "MSA Society Awards Recipients". Microscopy Society of America.
9. "ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry Recipients". American Chemical Society.
10. "APS Fellowship recipients". American Physical Society.
11. "Avanti Awards in Lipids". Avanti Research.