Professor
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Prof. Yoon Yeo is the Lillian Barboul Thomas Professor and Associate Department Head of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy at Purdue University. She has built expertise in pharmaceutical sciences and drug delivery through Ph.D. training in protein microencapsulation and post-doc training in hydrogel-based biomaterials. At Purdue, Prof. Yeo leads a research program specializing in immunomodulatory formulations for anti-inflammatory applications and cancer immunotherapy, intracellular delivery of gene therapeutics and peptide antibiotics, new methods of delivering anticancer drugs, and long-acting drug delivery systems. She has authored 123 peer-reviewed papers and 11 book chapters, with an h-index of 60 and 11400 citations. Prof. Yeo is a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS, 2019) and the CRS (2022) and currently serves as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Controlled Release. She received the NSF CAREER award (2011), New Investigator Awards from AAPS (2009), and American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (2008).
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM US PST
