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	Oct 30, 2009	DeSimone receives 2009 North Carolina Award for Science, the highest honor the State of North Carolina can bestow to recognize notable achievements of North Carolinians.
	Sept 24, 2009	DeSimone receives 2009 NIH Director's Pioneer Award. Pioneer Awards are designed to support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering – and possibly transforming – approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research. He is using the Pioneer Award to develop new approaches for delivering promising biological therapeutics to specific sites in the body via inhalation and minimally invasive ionotophoretic devices, which use local electrical currents to move drugs into tissues. Underlying his approach is a novel technology for making specifically shaped biological particles based on processes adapted from the semiconductor industry.
	Feb 27, 2009	DeSimone interviewed by Bill Friday on UNC TV's North Carolina People With William Friday View video of program Encore presentation Friday, April 3, at 9 PM, and Sunday, April 5, at 5:30 PM on PBS/UNC TV
	Dec 28 , 2008	DeSimone named "Tar Heel of the Year" by the Raleigh News & Observer. [pdf]
	Nov 11 , 2008	POSITION FILLED Announcing Postdoctoral Position in Medical Devices: Professor Joseph M. DeSimone in the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work in the area of medical devices. This position will broadly focus on the development of iontophoretic approaches for the delivery of therapeutics, including delivery of nanoparticles.This position will broadly focus on the development of iontophoretic approaches for the delivery of therapeutics, including delivery of nanoparticles. Full Announcement...
	June 25 , 2008	DeSimone Awarded Lemelson-MIT Prize: Joseph M. DeSimone, Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry, UNC-CH and William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, NCSU will receive the prestigious Lemelson-MIT award for 2008. ‘Dubbed the "Oscar for Inventors," the $500,000 prize is bestowed upon outstanding mid-career inventors’, who are also entrepreneurs and committed mentors. DeSimone’s award recognizes multiple breakthroughs, including a ‘green’ process for making Teflon® fluorocarbon polymers, a technology for a fully bioabsorbable, polymer-based coronary stent, and continuing development of PRINT® nanobiomaterials for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. more... View video profile of Joseph DeSimone and listen to podcasts of him talking about his work.

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